KellyMitchell GroupRemote
UX/UI Senior Design Systems Designer
United States of America
Contract
3 weeks ago
$130,000 - $140,000 USD
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Key skills
UX DesignUI DesignDesign SystemsFigmaDesign TokensComponent ModularityAtomic Design MethodologyVisual QAWCAG 2.1 AA ComplianceFront-end ImplementationDeveloper HandoffToken StudioStyle DictionaryDesign System Documentation
About this role
KellyMitchell Group is seeking a UX/UI Senior Design Systems Designer to join their team. The role involves building and maintaining design tokens, creating scalable components, and ensuring compliance with design standards.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain tokens, including color, spacing, typography, radius, opacity, elevation, and overlays in Figma
- Architect 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 uncovered in 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 from product teams, module reviews, and cross-functional data science adoption
- Participate in design system sprint cycles: from grooming to retrospectives
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional experience in product/UI/UX design
- 2+ years focused on building design systems
- Expert-level Figma knowledge in variables, libraries, variants, auto layout, and how to debug naming logic and file bloat
- Deep knowledge of design tokens, semantic layers, and best practices for component modularity
- Experience building design systems at scale for B2C apps, e-commerce, or platform teams
- Proven track record of moving fast and shipping components, tokens, and systems with confidence
- Solid understanding of front-end implementation and developer handoff
- Detail-obsessed with an eye for naming, structure, and clean documentation
- Clear, concise communicator who can collaborate across disciplines: design, engineering, product
- Familiarity with Token Studio, Style Dictionary, or other token tooling pipelines
- Experience contributing to design system documentation
- Experience supporting multi-brand or multi-platform systems
- Prior enterprise-level design system work in QSR, retail, or high-growth digital teams