Figma Design Systems Specialist - 1357

Looking for Philippines-based candidates
Job Role: Figma Design Systems Specialist - 1357
Compensation range: Under $2,500 AUD / Monthly
Engagement type: Independent Contractor Agreement
Work Schedule: This role is expected to align with the AU business hours (approx. 9 AM - 5 PM, Monday to Friday) for collaboration, but as a contractor, you'll have flexibility in how you manage your time.
Who We Are: At Hunt St, we help Australian companies hire top remote talent in the Philippines. For this role, you will be engaged directly by the client as an independent contractor. We are not an outsourcing agency. All of our roles are 100% remote, so you'll be able to work from home.
Who The Client Is: Our client is an Australian digital experience agency that works across enterprise websites, digital products, and content platforms for a range of organisations and brands. The business brings together experience design, technology, and digital delivery teams to help clients build and improve modern digital experiences. With multiple projects running across different clients and brands, they work with established digital platforms as well as new products and experiences being developed from the ground up.
As part of their continued growth, they are looking for a specialist who can bring deeper expertise in design systems and Figma to help improve consistency, scalability, and efficiency across client engagements.
Role Overview: We're looking for an experienced Figma Design Systems Specialist to support the creation, evolution, optimisation, and governance of Figma design libraries across multiple client engagements.
This is a hands-on specialist role working across both existing design systems and new systems built from the ground up. You'll be responsible for improving component architecture, establishing scalable design standards, supporting library rationalisation, and helping teams adopt consistent design system practices.
You'll work closely with Experience Design and Front-End Development teams to ensure Figma libraries are structured effectively and can align with development component frameworks and workflows.
The ideal candidate has advanced Figma expertise, strong UI architecture knowledge, and a proven ability to build and scale design systems across complex digital projects.
Key Responsibilities:
Design System Optimisation
Audit existing Figma files, libraries, components, and usage
Assess the quality, scalability and adoption of existing design systems
Identify and consolidate duplicate or inconsistent components
Improve component architecture, naming conventions, and library organisation
Extend existing libraries with new components, patterns and templates
Establish or improve design tokens and Figma variables
Support library migration and rationalisation activities
Develop governance, contribution and release processes
Improve adoption and consistent usage across project teams
Align Figma assets with front-end component frameworks and Storybook where applicable
Design System Creation
Establish new Figma libraries and design systems from scratch
Define library structure and information architecture
Create foundational styles, tokens, and variable collections
Build scalable components using Auto Layout, variants, properties, and nested components
Develop responsive layout systems and standards
Create reusable templates, sections, and page patterns
Incorporate accessibility and WCAG requirements into component design
Establish documentation, governance and contribution guidelines
Support implementation and adoption by designers and developers
Design Operations and Team Enablement
Improve design efficiency through reusable assets, workflows, and standards
Mentor designers in advanced Figma and design system practices
Provide hands-on support to project teams using existing and new libraries
Collaborate with developers on design-to-code alignment
Support design system documentation and implementation
Contribute to project estimation, planning, and pre-sales activities where design system expertise is required
Work across multiple client projects and brands, adapting systems to varying levels of digital maturity
Required Skills and Qualifications:
5+ years' experience in UI, UX, or Product Design
Demonstrated experience creating and managing enterprise design systems
Expert-level Figma proficiency
Advanced knowledge of:
Components and nested components
Variants and component properties
Auto Layout
Variables and design tokens
Responsive component behaviour
Library publishing and version management
Proven experience improving and scaling existing design systems
Proven experience building design systems and component libraries from scratch
Strong understanding of UI architecture, accessibility and responsive design
Experience producing documentation, standards and governance frameworks
Ability to work independently across multiple client engagements
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Highly Desirable
Storybook and design-to-code workflows
Front-end component framework knowledge
Multi-brand or multi-product design systems
Agency or consulting experience
Enterprise website and digital product delivery
Experience with DXP vendors including Sitecore, Contentful, Contentstack and Squiz platforms
Experience aligning design libraries with development component libraries
Key Deliverables
Depending on the engagement, deliverables may include:
Figma library audit and recommendations
Rationalised master component library
New design system built from first principles
Design token and variable framework
Responsive layout and grid standards
Reusable templates and page patterns
Component naming and governance standards
Accessibility guidance and requirements
Design system governance framework
Release and version management processes
Component usage documentation
Design-to-development handover guidance
Storybook alignment recommendations
Library adoption roadmap
Team training and knowledge transfer
What We're Looking For
The ideal Figma Design Systems Specialist will be able to demonstrate experience in:
Improving and scaling an existing design system
Migrating fragmented or inconsistent libraries into a unified design system
Creating a new design system and component library from scratch
Establishing governance, standards, and contribution models
Aligning Figma components with front-end development workflows
Working across multiple clients, brands, and delivery teams
Work Arrangement & Expectations:
This is a remote role that will be set up as an independent contractor engagement.
To ensure alignment and transparency, successful candidates will be expected to:
Disclose any existing ongoing roles or client work
Reflect this engagement on their LinkedIn profile (clearly marked as "Independent Contractor")

Work arrangement
Yes