Associate Design Director – Contract

Instrument

. Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to evolve and scale a **multi-brand design system** .

Posted 4/8/2026contractRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $78 - $96 per hourWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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)

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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)
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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