Senior Web Designer, Design Systems — Remote

Blacksmith Agency; Peru (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency builds websites and marketing programs for clients across the US. As Senior Web Designer, Design Systems at Blacksmith, you own how our client design systems get built. You take a brand and a few reference sites, then extract the pattern into a working system: tokens, variables, modes, and core components a build pipeline can execute without asking you questions.

Precision is the job. This is a senior, systems-first seat. Not one-off pages, not maintenance.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with design system work in your portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants.
• A 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.
• Ship core component libraries that hold up across an entire site, not just a homepage.
• Document the system so a developer or automated pipeline can execute it without questions.
• Work across several client brands at once with the same structural rigor.

Skills

Strong English

Design systems

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency builds websites and marketing programs for clients across the US. As Senior Web Designer, Design Systems at Blacksmith, you own how our client design systems get built. You take a brand and a few reference sites, then extract the pattern into a working system: tokens, variables, modes, and core components a build pipeline can execute without asking you questions.

Precision is the job. This is a senior, systems-first seat. Not one-off pages, not maintenance.