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
Benefits
- Our comprehensive benefits program includes Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO Health coverage, as well as a health savings account with employer-funded contributions.
- We also offer Dental and Vision insurance. All of our full-time employees are eligible for Life/AD&D insurance and Short/Long Term Disability insurance free of cost, with the option to add additional voluntary coverage if desired.
- One North’s 401(k) plan allows employees to save for retirement through pre- or post-tax contributions along with employer-matched funds for maximized savings potential.
- Our Transportation Benefits enable employees to also make pre-tax contributions to pay for parking and public transit needs.
- We know how important unwinding can be for inspiration, innovation and productivity. Our full-time employees earn 4 weeks of paid time off, in addition to company paid holidays. Employees begin to accrue additional time off once they reach their 3-year and 10-year anniversaries with the business.
- One North also understands how critical it is for parents to bond with their new additions. We provide paid Parental and Primary Caregiver Leave to assist and support employees who experience a new birth, adoption or foster placement of a child.
- We also offer an Employee Perks Program that offers member-only discounts and corporate rates on everything from pizza and the zoo, to movie tickets, car rentals, and hotels.
We reserve the right to pay above or below the base salary range of $125,000-$187,400 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.
Please click on the following link to learn more about our full-time internal employment benefits: https://www.teksystems.com/en/careers/benefits.
The expected posting close date is May 12, 2026.
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