UX Design Systems Architect - Remote Contract

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

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.