Design Systems Lead

One North is a digital experience agency that combines curiosity, scale, and agility to shape the future. As part of TEKsystems, a leading provider of business and technology services, we offer boutique solutions to solve complex problems. Our multidisciplinary teams of strategists, designers, and technologists excel in research and discovery, experience strategy, design, experience management, and technology implementation. Whether clients are establishing a vision for an experience or optimizing an existing one, we help businesses understand their audiences, design experiences, maximize technology, and bring their digital ideas to life. The world’s most successful companies rely on us to forge the future through electrifying work that sparks innovation and drives results.

Here’s what the opportunity supported through our TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) Talent Acquisition Team requires:

Position Overview

One North is looking for a Design Systems Lead with deep expertise in UX/UI, Figma, and enterprise-scale design systems, with a strong focus on AI-centered product experiences and workflows. This role will help shape and evolve design systems that enable consistency, speed, accessibility, and innovation across digital products, while also defining how AI capabilities are translated into scalable, usable, and responsible experience patterns.

As part of the Design team, this individual will work alongside embedded client teams in Agile environments to create high-quality digital experiences, drive design systems strategy, and establish reusable patterns that support both traditional product interfaces and emerging AI-driven experiences. This person will also provide leadership to other designers on projects, helping guide execution, elevate quality, and embed design system best practices across workstreams.

This role will ideally be based in the Chicago area, but we are open to remote locations across the U.S. and Canada.

Responsibilities:

•Lead the design and evolution of enterprise design systems, including components, patterns, foundations, documentation, and governance.

•Define and scale AI-centric design system patterns for experiences such as assistants, copilots, recommendations, generated content, conversational interfaces, and intelligent workflows.

•Create highly polished, high-fidelity UX/UI designs that align to design system standards and user-centered best practices.

•Establish frameworks for how AI interactions should behave across products, including guidance for transparency, trust, feedback loops, error handling, human-in-the-loop workflows, and responsible use.

•Partner with strategists, researchers, technologists, and client stakeholders to translate business needs and emerging AI opportunities into scalable design solutions.

•Help teams operationalize AI-supported design workflows, including ways AI can accelerate ideation, content generation, documentation, prototyping, system maintenance, and production efficiency.

•Guide and mentor other designers on projects, providing direction, feedback, and support to ensure strong execution and consistency across deliverables.

•Leverage advanced Figma capabilities, including Auto Layout, Variables, components, prototyping, and Dev Mode, to build scalable systems and workflows.

•Present work clearly and confidently in client sessions, articulating rationale, tradeoffs, and recommendations.

•Ensure design system outputs align with accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.

When packing your bags, please bring:

•Deep understanding of design fundamentals and modern digital product experiences

•Expertise in Figma and its advanced features, including Auto Layout, Variables, Dev Mode, advanced prototyping, and scalable component architecture

•Strong experience building or evolving design systems for complex digital products

•Hands-on experience designing AI-enabled product experiences and translating them into reusable system patterns

•Experience establishing AI-centered workflows for design teams, including how AI can support concepting, iteration, documentation, and system scalability

•Strong point of view on designing for AI interactions, including trust, explainability, user control, fallback states, and responsible UX

•Experience guiding other designers on projects, providing feedback, direction, and quality oversight

•Expertise translating designs across desktop, tablet, and mobile

•Strong understanding of accessibility requirements and inclusive design practices

•Ability to thrive in a multidisciplinary environment with design, strategy, client services, product, and technology teams

•Passion for staying current on evolving AI, design systems, and digital product trends

Your weapons (wield them wisely):

•10 or more years of experience in product design, UX/UI, or design systems within an in-house team, consultancy, or agency environment

•Proven experience creating or scaling AI-centric design systems, interaction patterns, or workflows for digital products

•Experience leading design work across projects and supporting the growth and success of other designers

•Strong portfolio demonstrating high-fidelity design, systems thinking, strategic problem solving, and examples of AI-enabled or intelligent product experiences

•Exceptional visual design skills, including typography, color, layout, and interaction design

•Advanced skills in Figma

•Solid understanding of front-end constraints, responsive design, and collaboration with engineering teams

•Strong communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills

This is a Permanent position based out of Chicago, IL.

The pay range for this position is $125000.00 - $187400.00/yr.

We reserve the right to pay above or below the posted wage based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification.Additional earnings may be available through incentive programs like annual bonuses, profit sharing, etc.Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan or program terms. Our benefit plans include the following:· Medical, dental & vision· 401(k)/Roth· Insurance (Basic/Supplemental Life & AD&D)· Short and long-term disability· Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA & DCFSA)· Transportation benefits· Employee Assistance Program· Tuition Assistance· Time Off/Leave (PTO, Paid Family Leave)

This is a fully remote position.

This position is anticipated to close on May 12, 2026.

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.