Senior Design Systems Designer — Remote

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Product Design Systems Designer. You own how client design systems are built, turning a brand and reference sites into a token-driven system with variables, modes, and core components for a repeatable build pipeline.

This is a systems-first role across several client brands, delivering fast, correct results the first time and documenting the system for developers and automation. Fluency in English and US hours is expected.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with design systems work in portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants.
• Portfolio showing work across multiple clients with consistent rigor.
• Strong English and overlap with US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Build token architecture in Figma using variables, modes, and semantic naming our pipeline can read predictably.
• Ship core component libraries that hold up across an entire site, not just a homepage.
• Document the system so a developer or an automated pipeline can execute it without questions.
• Work across several client brands at once, each looking distinctly different, with the same structural rigor.

Skills

Design systems

Figma variables

Auto layout

Variants

Tools

Figma

Design Tokens

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Product Design Systems Designer. You own how client design systems are built, turning a brand and reference sites into a token-driven system with variables, modes, and core components for a repeatable build pipeline.

This is a systems-first role across several client brands, delivering fast, correct results the first time and documenting the system for developers and automation. Fluency in English and US hours is expected.