Job Description

Salary: $104,000 - 131,040 per year Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant UX, product design, or design-system experience.
• Demonstrated experience building, extending, or maintaining a substantial design system in Figma.
• Advanced proficiency with Figma components, component properties, variants, variables, modes, styles, libraries, and prototyping.
• Demonstrated experience creating scalable variable and design-token structures.
• Experience adapting or extending an established design system rather than focusing only on standalone product interfaces.
• Strong understanding of component anatomy, states, responsive behavior, reusable interaction patterns, and systematic design.
• Experience designing complex, data-heavy interface components such as tables, filters, forms, pagination, sorting, selection, and bulk actions.
• Ability to create flexible Figma components that support intended use without detaching instances.
• Working knowledge of accessibility requirements and their impact on component design, contrast, focus treatment, interaction states, and usability.
• Ability to audit an existing library, identify gaps, recommend a practical completion plan, and independently execute an approved scope.
• Ability to translate consolidated stakeholder direction into cohesive design-system decisions.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, consistency, and maintainability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain design-system decisions to designers, developers, and product partners.
• Preferred: Direct experience with IBMs Carbon Design System.
• Preferred: Experience adapting an open-source design system to an organizations brand and application needs.
• Preferred: Experience designing systems for enterprise, operational, or internal applications.
• Preferred: Experience supporting web and mobile application design.
• Preferred: Familiarity with the relationship among design tokens, CSS variables, themes, and coded component libraries.
• Preferred: Experience collaborating directly with front-end engineers on design-system implementation.
• Preferred: Familiarity with React component libraries.
• Preferred: Experience defining design-system contribution, review, or acceptance practices.
• Preferred: Experience creating light and dark themes through semantic variables and tokens.
• Bachelors degree.

• Audit the current library and recommend a prioritized completion plan.
• Finalize the variable and token structure and apply it consistently across the library.
• Complete Meijer styling for in-scope Carbon components using current Figma best practices.
• Configure properties, variants, responsive behavior, and interactive states so designers can use components without detaching instances.
• Strengthen the Data Table to support Meijers data-heavy internal applications.
• Create approximately three to five custom components, including navigation and card elements, based on gaps confirmed during the audit.
• Collaborate with the Design System Developer to align Figma assets, tokens, naming, states, and coded components.
• Publish the completed library and recommend a process for requesting, reviewing, and accepting future contributions.

• CSS
• Figma
• Support
• Mobile
• React
• Web
• UX UI Design
• IBM

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We are seeking a senior UX Designer with design-system experience to join our West Michigan clients team. This is a remote contract role with EST hours and a typical schedule of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The pay range is $50–$63 per hour. We offer eligible employees benefits that include medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance, short-term disability, and a 401(k) plan. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants of all abilities; reasonable accommodations are available during the application and interview process.

last updated 41 week of 2026

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