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
USD 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…

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…
  • 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

Jul 28

Verification context

Employer Ashby API listed the exact role as current, Remote, and published July 22; the posting specifies a 3–5 month, approximately 40-hour/week contract-to-hire project at $130–$160/hour.

Role terms can change after verification. The employer application page remains the final authority.

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