About Cambly: Our mission is to bring high quality English education to every English learner in the world by building a learning platform that optimally combines human tutors and artificial intelligence. By accomplishing our mission, we strive to become the world's largest English language learning marketplace.
Design Systems Designer (Contract)
Build a variable-based token architecture, theme-ready component library, and precise design-system documentation for designers, engineers, and AI coding agents.
- Rate
- $130–$160/hour
- Commitment
- Approximately 40 hours/week
- Remote region
- Remote · United States
- Engagement
- Contract-to-hire
- Duration
- 3–5 months
About this role
We're looking for a talented, hands-on design systems designer who is passionate about building the infrastructure great products are made of and wants to change the way people learn languages. You will design and build Cambly's design system as a project: a structured, variable-based token architecture (color, spacing, type, and more) and a documented component library that builds on top of it, with structural support for theming. You'll modernize our existing design system into one that includes clear rules for when and how to use each component, and write specs and documentation precise enough that our designers, our engineers, and our AI coding agents can all implement correctly with minimal ambiguity. You will also be part of a small, fast-moving design team where your work frees up our product designers to focus on the high-craft areas of Lexicon that need it most.
Role requirements and focus
What you’ll work on
- Create or extend reusable patterns that keep the product coherent as it grows.
- Make AI-supported workflows understandable, trustworthy, and easy for people to control.
- Partner closely with engineering to carry design intent into production.
What they’re looking for
- Mid-to-senior-level, hands-on design systems expert, with a track record of building and maintaining design systems with tokens, theming, and component libraries in Figma using a variable-based token architecture and provide continuous recommendations that enhance overall velocity and quality
- A systems and codification mindset: able to translate design intent into precise, unambiguous rules and documentation that designers, engineers, and AI coding agents can all use.
- A strong, well-rounded digital product designer at core — someone whose anchor is design systems work, but who is also a qualified product designer able to contribute beyond systems alone.
- Experience (and deep curiosity) working with AI as part of the core development flow.
- Self-directed and comfortable operating without a fully perfected process or handoff; this is a fast-moving, still-forming team.
Skills and focus
- Design systems
- Contract-to-hire
Useful context
Specialty
Design systems
Work type
Contract-to-hire
Source
Cambly / Ashby
Last verified
Sep 10
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