Design System Lead / Design Ops

Design System Lead / Design Ops (Remote)
Our client is looking for a Design System Lead / Design Ops Specialist to help build an AI-friendly design system for an AI-first coaching platform.
This role sits at the intersection of product design, design systems, and AI-assisted prototyping. You will help create reusable UX patterns, scalable components, and structured documentation that improve collaboration between designers, engineers, and AI tools.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain a scalable Figma design system
Define reusable components, variants, tokens, layouts, and interaction patterns
Create clear and AI-friendly documentation for modern AI-assisted workflows
Collaborate with product, UX, and engineering teams to transform product flows into reusable UI patterns
Improve consistency between design and frontend implementation
Support rapid prototyping for dashboards, onboarding flows, feedback systems, and learning experiences
Establish Design Ops processes including naming conventions, governance, QA, versioning, and component adoption
Requirements
4+ years of experience in UI/UX, Product Design, Design Systems, or Design Ops
Strong expertise with Figma: components, variants, auto-layout, variables, design tokens, and prototyping
Experience building or maintaining design systems for complex digital products
Ability to simplify complex product logic into scalable UX patterns
Understanding of design-to-code workflows and collaboration with frontend engineers
Interest in AI-assisted design workflows and modern prototyping tools
English — Upper-Intermediate or higher
Nice to Have
Experience with AI products, gaming, coaching platforms, educational products, analytics systems, or complex dashboards
Familiarity with tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Figma MCP, v0, Lovable, Framer, Webflow, or Storybook
Basic frontend knowledge (HTML, CSS, React, Tailwind)
Experience creating structured documentation for both humans and AI systems
Interest in strategy games or skill-based products
What Success Looks Like
A clean, scalable, AI-friendly design system
Faster feature prototyping without losing consistency
Improved design-to-development collaboration
AI-assisted tools generating outputs aligned with product patterns and UI logic
Conditions
Remote
Flexible collaboration
Long-term product opportunity