Senior Designer Design Systems

Senior Designer - Design Systems

Job ID: 37155

Date Added: 05/27/2026

Senior Product Designer / Design Systems Architect (AI + Design Systems Focus)

Location: Remote - Must be located in Atlanta, GA or Chicago, IL

Duration: Long-Term W2 Contract

Rate: $60-70/hr W2

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer / Design Systems Architect to join a large-scale enterprise Design Systems team focused on building scalable, AI-ready design infrastructure across digital products and platforms. This role will partner closely with product, engineering, architecture, and design teams to evolve enterprise design systems, operationalize reusable patterns, and support AI-assisted workflows and tooling initiatives.

This is a highly cross-functional hybrid role for someone who can comfortably operate between design, systems thinking, and technical implementation. The ideal candidate understands not only how experiences should look and behave, but also how scalable systems, component rules, and AI-enabled tooling can support both designers and developers at enterprise scale.

Key Responsibilities:

Partner with product, engineering, and architecture teams to evolve scalable enterprise design systems and component ecosystems

Define reusable interaction patterns, component behaviors, design tokens, and system rules that support consistency and scalability across products

Collaborate closely with front-end engineering teams to ensure design system implementation aligns with product and technical requirements

Support AI-assisted design workflows, automation initiatives, and emerging design-to-code processes

Create and maintain scalable component documentation, usage standards, governance models, and pattern libraries

Translate design intent into structured systems that can be consumed by both humans and AI-enabled tooling

Contribute to Figma libraries, component architecture, token systems, and web component strategies

Support modernization initiatives focused on bridging design systems with AI tooling, code generation workflows, and scalable design operations

Present design systems strategy, workflows, and scalable UX recommendations to stakeholders and leadership teams

Partner across multiple enterprise product teams to ensure alignment, adoption, and governance of scalable UX standards

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of Product Design, UX Systems, Design Systems, or Design Technologist experience

Strong experience building or scaling enterprise design systems, component libraries, and reusable UX frameworks

Experience with design tokens, web components, pattern libraries, and scalable UI systems

Advanced Figma proficiency including component architecture, prototyping, variables/tokens, and library management

Strong understanding of front-end development principles and design-to-development workflows

Experience collaborating closely with engineering teams on scalable system implementation

Ability to think beyond visual design and define structured rules, behaviors, and scalable interaction patterns

Strong systems-thinking mindset with experience simplifying complexity at enterprise scale

Strong communication, facilitation, and presentation skills

Comfortable operating in Agile product environments with cross-functional stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Storybook, React-based component systems, or front-end frameworks

Exposure to AI-assisted design workflows, design automation, or generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Codex, Cursor, v0, or similar technologies

Experience with Figma-to-code workflows or design engineering collaboration

Experience supporting enterprise SaaS, platform, or internal tooling ecosystems

Familiarity with design governance, system documentation, and scalable UX operations

Experience creating systems intended for both human and machine/AI consumption

Background in Design Ops, Design Engineering, UX Architecture, or Design Systems strategy preferred

The hourly pay range for this position (dependent on factors including but not limited to client requirements, experience, statutory considerations, and location) is $60.00 to $70.00/hr. Benefits available to full-time employees: medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401k and commuter benefits.

Synergis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, military/veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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Synergis is a workforce solutions partner serving thousands of businesses and job seekers nationwide. Our digital world has accelerated the need for businesses to build IT ecosystems that enable growth and innovation along with enhancing the Total Experience (TX). Synergis partners with our clients at the intersection of talent and transformation to scale their balanced teams of tech, digital and creative professionals.