Senior Design Systems & Templates Architect - Remote

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Minds seeks a Senior Design and Template Specialist to bridge visual design, design systems, and CMS-driven publishing. You’ll create scalable templates, components, and documentation across print and digital platforms, ensuring accessibility and consistent brand execution.

Collaborating with Design Leads, Product Management, Content & Editorial, and cross-functional partners, you’ll translate creative direction into production-ready systems, push for reusable patterns, and mentor teams as

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience spanning graphic design, digital design, production design, design systems, publishing design, or a related discipline.
• Portfolio demonstrating advanced visual design and ability to translate design systems into reusable templates and components.
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, PowerPoint, and CMS-based workflows; HTML/CSS is a plus.
• Strong collaboration, communication, organization, and time-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate creative direction into scalable templates, components, styles, patterns, libraries, and documentation for print and digital products.
• Apply typography, layout, hierarchy, color, and information design principles for static and dynamic designs.
• Collaborate with Design Leads to preserve creative intent as designs move into production systems.
• Create, revise, and maintain templates and production systems in Figma, InDesign, PowerPoint, and other platforms.
• Ensure consistency between print and digital expressions while respecting each medium's requirements.
• Bridge print design with CMS-based workflows and publishing.
• Translate prototypes into specifications, components, and CMS-ready patterns.
• Work within CMS capabilities to create flexible, scalable designs.
• Partner with Digital, Product, Content & Editorial, and other teams to align requirements with capabilities.
• Participate in testing and refinement of CMS components to meet accessibility and functional standards.
• Build documentation, specifications, and usage guidance for designers, production teams, vendors.
• Incorporate accessibility requirements like color contrast and semantic structure.
• Share knowledge and best practices with the Design & Brand team.
• Guide designers as workflows shift to component- and system-based design.
• Contribute to a culture of experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Graphic design

Design systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Attention to detail

Accessibility

Learning mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

PowerPoint

HTML/CSS

CMS platforms

Job description

Great Minds seeks a Senior Design and Template Specialist to bridge visual design, design systems, and CMS-driven publishing. You’ll create scalable templates, components, and documentation across print and digital platforms, ensuring accessibility and consistent brand execution.

Collaborating with Design Leads, Product Management, Content & Editorial, and cross-functional partners, you’ll translate creative direction into production-ready systems, push for reusable patterns, and mentor teams as