UX/UI Senior Design Systems Designer

Role Overview

KellyMitchell’s client is seeking a UX/UI Senior Design Systems Designer to join a team working on a scalable design system. The role is remote and focuses on building and maintaining tokens and components, ensuring system consistency, and partnering closely with engineering.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain design tokens for: color, spacing, typography, radius, opacity, elevation, and overlays.
• Create scalable, reusable components and modules following atomic methodology.
• Translate brand and functional UI designs into systemized variables and repeatable logic.
• Implement and maintain variable modes and component variants.
• Identify, document, and fix design debt and inconsistencies via audits.
• Partner with engineering on naming conventions, token ingestion, and handoff precision.
• Run visual QA for system-level components to ensure WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.
• Support intake of new components through product-team submissions, module reviews, and adoption across cross-functional teams (including data science).
• Participate in design system sprint cycles: grooming to retrospectives.

Requirements

• 5+ years professional experience in product/UI/UX design.
• 2+ years focused specifically on building design systems.
• Expert Figma knowledge: variables, libraries, variants, auto layout, and ability to debug naming logic and avoid file bloat.
• Deep knowledge of design tokens, semantic layers, and component modularity best practices.
• Experience building design systems at scale for B2C apps, e-commerce, or platform teams.
• Demonstrated ability to move fast and ship tokens/components/systems confidently.
• Solid understanding of front-end implementation and developer handoff.
• Detail-oriented approach to naming, structure, and documentation.
• Clear communicator who can collaborate across design, engineering, and product.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with token tooling such as Token Studio and Style Dictionary (or similar pipelines).
• Experience contributing to design system documentation.
• Experience supporting multi-brand or multi-platform design systems.
• Enterprise design system work in QSR, retail, or other high-growth digital contexts.

Compensation & Benefits

• Approx. pay range: $130,000–$140,000 (annual).
• Benefits include Medical, Dental & Vision insurance.
• Employee-Owned Profit Sharing (ESOP) and 401K.