User Experience Designer | Design Systems

Dahl Consulting; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 83,000 - 103,000; Part time

Job summary

Dahl Consulting is seeking a User Experience Designer focused on Design Systems. You will contribute to evolving a shared design system across web and mobile, collaborating with design, engineering, product, and accessibility teams to create scalable, accessible solutions.

Responsibilities include maintaining reusable UI components, documenting standards, and ensuring alignment with production implementations while driving governance and adoption of the design language across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of UX or Product/Interaction Design experience.
• Experience building, maintaining, governing, or evolving enterprise design systems.
• Expertise creating reusable components, patterns, and shared libraries.
• Advanced proficiency with Figma — components, variants, auto layout, shared libraries.
• Strong understanding of design systems, component architecture, and scalable design methodologies.
• Experience documenting standards and adoption guidelines for design systems.
• Collaboration with engineering teams to translate design specs into production-ready solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and evolve reusable UI components and patterns in Figma.
• Establish scalable design solutions to ensure consistency across products and platforms.
• Collaborate with UX designers, engineers, product managers, and accessibility experts.
• Create and maintain design system documentation, standards, and usage guidelines.
• Partner with engineering to align design assets with production implementations.
• Identify and resolve discrepancies between design artifacts and coded components.
• Apply accessibility and responsive design principles across components.
• Participate in governance and design reviews to drive adoption.
• Evaluate tools and workflows to improve design-to-development collaboration.
• Support the growth and adoption of a shared design language.

Skills

UX Design

Design Systems

Figma Proficiency

Component Libraries

Accessibility

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Design/HCI/UX

Tools

Figma

Design tokens/ governance tools

Job description

Title : User Experience Designer | Design SystemsLocation

: RemoteJob Type

: Contract (12 months)Compensation

: $60.00 - $75.00 per hour (W2)Industry:

Retail

About the Role

Our firm is partnering with a leading Fortune 50 retailer and omnichannel commerce organization to identify an experienced User Experience (UX) Designer - Design Systems. This organization serves millions of customers through industry-leading digital experiences across web and mobile platforms and is committed to creating accessible, scalable, and user-centered products. In this role, you will contribute to the evolution of a shared design system that supports a broad ecosystem of digital products. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including design, engineering, product management, and accessibility specialists, to create reusable solutions that drive consistency, efficiency, and exceptional user experiences. This opportunity is ideal for a designer with significant hands‑on experience building, maintaining, and governing design systems, rather than solely leveraging existing systems in product design work.

Job Description

• Design, maintain, and evolve reusable UI components, patterns, and shared design assets within Figma.


• Establish scalable design solutions that improve consistency across multiple products, teams, and platforms.


• Collaborate closely with UX designers, engineers, product managers, and accessibility experts to enhance usability and design quality.


• Create and maintain design system documentation, standards, best practices, and usage guidelines.


• Partner with engineering teams to ensure alignment between design system assets and production implementations.


• Identify and resolve inconsistencies between design artifacts and coded components.


• Apply accessibility, inclusive design, and responsive design principles across reusable components and patterns.


• Participate in design reviews, governance processes, and contribution workflows that support ongoing system adoption and quality.


• Evaluate and improve tools, workflows, and processes that streamline design-to-development collaboration.


• Support the continued growth and adoption of a shared design language across digital experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of UX, Product Design, or Interaction Design experience.


• Proven hands-on experience building, maintaining, governing, or evolving enterprise design systems.


• Demonstrated expertise creating reusable components, patterns, and shared component libraries.


• Advanced proficiency with Figma, including:ComponentsVariantsAuto LayoutShared Libraries


• Strong understanding of design systems, component architecture, and scalable design methodologies.


• Experience developing design system documentation, standards, and adoption guidelines.


• Experience partnering directly with engineering teams to translate design specifications into production-ready solutions.


• Ability to identify and address discrepancies between design assets and implemented components.


• Working knowledge of accessibility standards, inclusive design principles, and their application within design systems.


• Strong understanding of responsive design principles for web and mobile experiences.


• Experience working within cross-functional product teams consisting of design, engineering, and product stakeholders.


• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.


• Portfolio demonstrating:Design system ownership or significant contributions


• Component architecture


• Reusable pattern development


• Shared libraries


• Documentation and governance


• Scalable cross-product design solution

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Experience supporting design systems across web, iOS, and Android platforms.


• Knowledge of design tokens, governance models, contribution workflows, and release management processes.


• Familiarity with modern design-to-code workflows and product development methodologies.


• Exposure to AI-assisted design and development tools, including:Prompt-based design workflowsDesign automation toolsCode generation solutionsFigma Make or similar technologiesEmerging AI-enabled product design platforms


• Experience driving design system adoption across large, enterprise-scale organizations.

Benefits

Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary:

Equal Opportunity Statement

As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. If this position sounds like the right opportunity for you, we encourage you to take the next step and connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!