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Associate Design Director – Contract

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Texas • United States

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Salary

💰 $78 - $96 per hour

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to evolve and scale a **multi-brand design system**
  • Define and drive **system-level thinking** across the product experience—balancing consistency with flexibility
  • Translate product and UX needs into **scalable, reusable components and patterns**
  • Lead design direction with a strong POV on **usability, interaction, and visual craft**
  • Collaborate in Figma using **advanced workflows (libraries, branching, versioning)**
  • Contribute to or generate **clear documentation**, potentially leveraging AI-assisted workflows (e.g., Figma MCP + coding assistants)
  • Ensure design outputs are **production-ready and aligned with system standards**

Requirements

  • Proven experience as an **Associate Design Director / Lead Product Designer** on complex digital products
  • Strong background in **product design and UX**, with systems-level thinking
  • Deep experience building and scaling **multi-brand design systems**
  • Expertise in **Figma**, including:
  • - Libraries and components
  • - Versioning + branching workflows
  • Experience with **design tokens managed externally** (must-have)
  • Familiarity with **Tokens Studio** (must-have)
  • Strong understanding of how design systems translate into **engineering and implementation**
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and influence at both **strategic and executional levels**
  • Experience generating documentation using **AI-assisted workflows** (e.g., Figma MCP integrations) - (nice to have)
  • Exposure to engineering workflows or system implementation (without needing to directly code) - (nice to have)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
product designUX designmulti-brand design systemssystem-level thinkingscalable componentsreusable patternsdesign tokensAI-assisted workflowsengineering implementationdocumentation generation
Soft Skills
collaborationinfluencestrategic thinkingexecutional skillsleadershipusabilityinteraction designvisual craft