Front End Designer (UI/UX, Figma, Design tokens) - 9+ yrs - Remote

Role: Front End Designer (UI/UX)

Exp: 9+ yrs

Location: Remote

Overview: Senior design systems expert with strong experience in both design and implementation at scale.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Design token architecture (global, semantic, component-level)
• Auditing and restructuring design systems
• Advanced Figma expertise (Variables, modes, collections, aliasing)
• Component architecture (variants, APIs, slots, scalability)
• Design-to-code fluency (CSS variables, token pipelines)
• Accessibility (WCAG, color systems, interaction patterns)
• Governance, adoption strategy, and documentation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong engineering partnership experience
• Rapid prototyping (code and/or AI-assisted tools)
• Design system migration/modernization experience
• Supporting multi-product/platform environments

Portfolio Expectations: Candidates should demonstrate:

• A design system they inherited or audited
• Key architectural decisions and tradeoffs
• Token and component strategies
• Adoption across teams
• Measurable business impact

Key Evaluation Criteria:

• Design token and semantic architecture
• Design + engineering fluency
• Component system architecture
• Governance and adoption
• Figma systems expertise

Regards,

Prakash

prakash.v(@)smg(-)llc(.)us