Senior Product Designer - Design Systems Expert

TasteMakers is a curated network of designers, creative technologists, frontend engineers, and AI-native makers working on projects with leading AI labs, tech companies, and brands. Our work sits at the intersection of design, human judgment, and AI research. We’re on a mission to end AI slop.

About the role

We’re seeking design systems experts across UI/UX & Product Design. You'll work on production-grade design systems used to evaluate AI design tools—building them, implementing them in code, and testing how well AI systems ingest and reproduce them.

Responsibilities

• Design track: Build complete design systems in Figma: tokens (color, type, spacing, radius), component libraries with variants and states, and golden screens composed exclusively from library components.
• Product Design track: Envision product designs from scratch, implementing/using existing design systems while maintaining strict adherence to them.

Requirements

• 4+ years building or implementing design systems professionally (in-house design systems team, agency, or design-engineering role).
• You have personally built and maintained a token-based system—not just consumed one.
• Sharp eye for adherence: you notice when a corner radius, casing rule, or spacing value drifts from spec.
• Strong written English; you can articulate exactly what's wrong and why, as if coaching another senior designer or engineer.
• Comfortable with AI design tools (Claude, Figma AI features, etc.) or eager to work at that frontier.
• Available for async, remote contract work with quick turnarounds; available to start immediately.

Skills

• Expert-level Figma (auto-layout, variants, component properties, libraries, modes/theming).

Types of projects

• Defining Design Systems from Scratch
• Designing new interfaces applying design systems
• Coding/implementing new interfaces following design systems
• Finding errors/bugs in design systems
• Catching mistakes in design systems applications or critiquing design systems

All projects with TasteMakers are remote, work-from-anywhere, and paid hourly via Independent Contractor. We hire globally and pay competitive rates in USD.