About True Sparrow

True Sparrow is a
product design & engineering services company
. We partner with enterprises and startups across North America and Europe, embedding deeply with their teams as a trusted extension of their organization. We are a small, fully remote team of builders who care about craft and ship work we are proud of.

The Role

We're looking for a talented, systems-obsessed
Design Systems Designer
to work on a complex,
multi-product design system for one of our key clients.
You'll be embedded in a collaborative global team of designers and developers, owning a unified design language that spans multiple products and platforms.

This isn't a single-product role.
It's a whole ecosystem; tokens flowing through multiple surfaces, components flexing across brands, and a style guide that actually guides. You won't be pixel-pushing; you'll be building the foundation everything else is built on.

This is a high-impact, client-facing role. As part of an international team, you should be comfortable taking late-night or early-morning calls.

What You'll Do

• Shape and own a multi-product design system in Figma: component library, style guide, the whole lot
• Design a robust token architecture: global → semantic → component tokens, multi-theme, light/dark modes
• Build complex, production-ready components with well-structured variants, interactive states, and responsive behaviour
• Use Figma Variables and advanced Auto Layout to create flexible, scalable components
• Collaborate daily with a cross-functional global team of designers & developers to keep design–dev handoff smooth and sane
• Write documentation people actually want to read (yes, really)
• Run audits , spot inconsistencies, and fix things before anyone else notices they're broken
• Champion the system: become the go-to person for "how should this component work?"

What We're Looking For

✅ Required

• 5+ years in product design with at least 2 years focused on design systems
• Expert-level Figma proficiency: Variables, Variants, Component Properties, Auto Layout, all of it
• Deep understanding of design token architecture: naming conventions, tiered tokens (global → semantic → component), multi-brand theming
• Proven experience building complex, multi-state component libraries from scratch
• Thorough style guide experience — typography, colour, spacing, iconography, motion, and accessibility. Not just a colour palette PDF.
• Strong communicator — able to explain design decisions clearly to both designers and engineers

★ Nice to Have

• Token Studio experience — this one's a big plus, we love it
• Experience with design systems spanning 3+ products or brands

Why Join True Sparrow

• Design challenges that span multiple products, platforms, and brands. No two days are the same.
• A team that gets it: You'll work alongside designers and developers who respect craft and geek out over systems
• Remote-first culture
• Meaningful impact: your system will be the foundation for products used by thousands of people