Design Systems Designer (Wearables)

TEKsystems • New York, NY

4d • $75 - $95 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Design Systems Designer will help define the visual language and user experience for next-generation wearable products, including glasses, watches, and other emerging hardware experiences. The role builds, evolves, and stewards a scalable design system across products and platforms, partnering with product designers and engineering teams to create reusable components, maintain Figma libraries, improve workflows, and document system usage.

This hands-on role combines product design with design system strategy, component development, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration. The designer will influence the look and feel of emerging wearable technology and help establish frameworks that allow products to scale. The position is a contract role based in New York, NY, with a hybrid workplace arrangement.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant product or digital design experience.
• Strong experience developing, maintaining, or stewarding design systems.
• Expert-level proficiency with Figma, including component libraries and reusable design patterns.
• Experience translating product requirements into scalable components and interaction patterns.
• Strong attention to detail and a systems-oriented approach to design.
• Experience creating clear design specifications and documentation.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills, including the ability to advocate for design system standards and practices.
• Experience working closely with product designers and engineering partners.
• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities and some ambiguity.
• Experience designing for native platforms such as iOS, Android, macOS, or Windows, as well as responsive web experiences.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and basic markup concepts.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Familiarity with file management and versioning workflows using tools such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or GitHub.
• Experience training designers or scaling design system knowledge across teams.
• Proficiency creating and presenting design concepts using tools such as Apple Keynote or Google Slides.
• Previous experience building or significantly scaling a design system.
• Strong prototyping skills.
• Experience working on complex, multi-platform product ecosystems.
• Ability to clearly present design rationale and build consensus across stakeholders.
• Experience establishing productive partnerships between design systems, product design, and engineering teams.
• Experience with production design and component-level quality assurance.
• Passion for design systems and helping other designers work more consistently and efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Build, organize, maintain, and distribute a comprehensive Figma component library.
• Create and maintain reusable components, patterns, templates, and key product flows.
• Develop detailed design specifications for components and patterns.
• Write, publish, and maintain design system documentation.
• Partner with product designers to explore and define new component variants.
• Establish and improve design system workflows across design and engineering.
• Manage design handoffs, specifications, task tracking, and design system updates.
• Troubleshoot issues involving design files, components, layers, and file organization.
• Provide guidance and support to designers using the design system.
• Conduct detailed design audits across iOS, Android, web, and other supported platforms.
• Identify opportunities to improve consistency, scalability, usability, and efficiency across the product ecosystem.
• Scale design system knowledge, standards, and best practices across the organization.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (eligibility requirements apply).
• Critical illness, accident, and hospital coverage (eligibility requirements apply).
• 401(k) retirement plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions (eligibility requirements apply).
• Voluntary life and AD&D insurance for employees and dependents (eligibility requirements apply).
• Short- and long-term disability coverage (eligibility requirements apply).
• Health Spending Account (HSA) (eligibility requirements apply).
• Transportation benefits (eligibility requirements apply).
• Employee Assistance Program (eligibility requirements apply).
• Time off/leave, including PTO, vacation, or sick leave (eligibility requirements apply).

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed