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Design System Lead / Design Ops

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. You will help create reusable UX patterns, scalable…

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  • Remote OK

Tech stack & skills

  • Design Systems
  • Figma
  • Anthropic
  • Framer
  • Webflow
  • Storybook
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • React
  • Tailwind

Why this role is interesting

  • This role sits at the intersection of product design, design systems, and AI-assisted prototyping.
  • Help build an AI-friendly design system for an AI-first coaching platform.

About the role

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. You will help create reusable UX patterns, scalable components, and structured documentation that improve collaboration between designers, engineers, and AI tools.

What you'll do

  • 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

Benefits

  • Remote
  • Flexible collaboration
  • Long-term product opportunity
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