Senior UX Designer: Design System & Figma Expert

Custom Business Solutions, Inc.; Walker (MI); On-site; USD 83,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Custom Business Solutions, Inc. seeks a Senior Contract UX Designer to complete the design foundation of an internal design system based on IBM's Carbon Design System.

The contractor will audit and extend the Figma library, finalize tokens, and ensure styling is consistent for web and mobile applications. Responsibilities include creating 3–5 new components, aligning assets with engineers, and publishing the library with contribution workflows.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of relevant UX, product design, or design-system experience.
• Demonstrated experience building, extending, or maintaining a substantial design system in Figma.
• Advanced proficiency with Figma components, component properties, variants, variables, modes, styles, libraries, and prototyping.
• Demonstrated experience creating scalable variable and design-token structures.
• Experience adapting or extending an established design system rather than designing only stand-alone product interfaces.
• Strong understanding of component anatomy, states, responsive behavior, reusable interaction patterns, and systematic design.
• Experience designing complex, data-heavy interface components such as tables, filters, forms, pagination, sorting, selection, and bulk actions.
• Ability to create flexible Figma components that support intended use without detaching instances.
• Working knowledge of accessibility requirements and their effect on component design, contrast, focus treatment, interaction states, and usability.
• Ability to audit an existing library, identify gaps, recommend a practical completion plan, and independently execute against an approved scope.
• Ability to convert consolidated stakeholder direction into cohesive design-system decisions.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, consistency, and maintainability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain design-system decisions to designers, developers, and product partners.

Responsibilities

• Audit the current library and recommend a prioritized completion plan.
• Finalize the variable and token structure and apply it consistently across the library.
• Complete styling for the in-scope Carbon components using current Figma best practices.
• Configure properties, variants, responsive behavior, and interactive states so designers can use components without detaching instances.
• Strengthen the Data Table to support data-heavy internal applications.
• Create approximately three to five custom components, including navigation and card elements, based on gaps confirmed during the audit.
• Collaborate with the Design System Developer to align Figma assets, tokens, naming, states, and coded components.
• Publish the completed library and recommend a process for requesting, reviewing, and accepting future contributions.

Skills

UX design

Design systems

Figma

Accessibility

Prototyping

Communication

Tools

Figma

Carbon Design System

Job description

Custom Business Solutions, Inc. seeks a Senior Contract UX Designer to complete the design foundation of an internal design system based on IBM's Carbon Design System.

The contractor will audit and extend the Figma library, finalize tokens, and ensure styling is consistent for web and mobile applications. Responsibilities include creating 3–5 new components, aligning assets with engineers, and publishing the library with contribution workflows.