Senior Remote Design Systems Architect

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (Latin America)

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Design Systems Designer to own client design systems from concept to production. You will extract patterns from brands and reference sites into a scalable system with tokens, variables, modes, and core components that a pipeline can run. Precision and systems thinking are required.

This role is senior, systems-first, not page-focused; you will stand up new systems quickly across multiple client brands with the same rigorous standards.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with design system work in portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout and variants with architecture.
• A portfolio showing client-to-client variety with consistent rigor.
• Strong English and overlap with US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Build token architecture in Figma using variables, modes, and semantic naming.
• Ship core component libraries that work across entire sites, not just pages.
• Document the system so developers or pipelines can execute it.
• Work across several client brands with the same structural discipline.

Skills

Web design

Figma variables

Component properties

Auto layout

Variants

English proficiency

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Design Systems Designer to own client design systems from concept to production. You will extract patterns from brands and reference sites into a scalable system with tokens, variables, modes, and core components that a pipeline can run. Precision and systems thinking are required.

This role is senior, systems-first, not page-focused; you will stand up new systems quickly across multiple client brands with the same rigorous standards.