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Product Designer, Design Systems

Creative Circle
Englewood, CO Contractor
POSTED ON 5/28/2026 CLOSED ON 6/4/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Designer, Design Systems position at Creative Circle?

Overview of the Role

Our leading television provider client is seeking a Product Designer who specializes in design systems. This position requires deep expertise in establishing and scaling a design system, including foundational structure, naming conventions, and component logic. The role supports the evolution of a multi-platform design system and the broader user experience across a suite of video and connected-device products. You will work within a balanced product team, collaborating with product management and engineering to ensure usability, consistency, and high-quality design execution. The work involves complex component architecture, multi-viewport builds, documentation, prototyping, and user-centered research to enhance how customers experience the product ecosystem. Candidates with experience using AI within design system workflows are strongly preferred.

The Basics

  • Duration: 3 months (could extend or convert to FT)
  • Schedule: Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week
  • Location Requirements: Onsite 5 days a week in Englewood, CO
  • Portfolio Requirements: Must show large-scale component work, multi-viewport builds, use of variables, and quality execution in areas such as color and spacing

Top 3 Required Qualifications

  1. 3 to 6 years of experience in UX or Product Design, including end-to-end application of modern design practices.
  2. Expert proficiency with Figma, with significant experience building complex design system components, using variables, and maintaining system-level structure across multiple viewports.
  3. Experience designing for multiple platforms such as desktop, mobile, TV, or other application-based environments (TV or app experience strongly preferred).

Other Qualifications

  • Experience shipping products as part of a cross-functional product team.
  • Strong interaction design, information architecture, research, and usability testing skills.
  • Ability to work in highly complex system environments with strict structure, naming conventions, and component logic requirements.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and translate insights into clear design direction.
  • Familiarity with agile, Design Thinking, and user-centered design processes.
  • Skilled with modern design tools, including DSM and AI-assisted design tools (AI in design system workflows is a plus).
  • Strong understanding of color, spacing, and system quality standards.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Strong user-first mindset and ability to identify unmet user needs.

Key Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the evolution, adoption, and governance of the enterprise design system.
  • Build, refine, and document reusable design system components that function across all five viewports and align with engineering implementation requirements.
  • Support complex system work, including naming conventions, component architecture, and multi-platform logic.
  • Partner closely with engineering to troubleshoot components, build page templates, and ensure system elements translate accurately into code.
  • Use user research and data to inform design decisions.
  • Improve the user experience across the product suite through interaction design, task flows, and UI architecture.
  • Lead prototype creation, usability testing, and maintenance of prototype libraries.
  • Create and maintain documentation that communicates design system logic, structure, and rationale.
  • Give and receive design feedback to support continuous quality improvement.
  • Advocate for user needs throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Collaborate effectively with product and engineering teams.

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.

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For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.This is a new role.

This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 05/28/2026 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.

This job was posted on 05/28/2026 and is open for 60 days

Everforth Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Our hiring process includes AI screening for keywords and minimum qualifications. Recruiters review all results.  Everforth Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local law, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements. Anthem / Blue Cross Blue Shield creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Creative Circle.

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