Product Designer - Brand & Design Systems

TasteMakers is a curated network of designers, creative technologists, and AI-native makers working on projects with leading AI labs, tech companies, and brands. We're on a mission to end AI slop. We're looking for product designers with real design systems depth: people who turn a brand into a coherent token foundation (color ramps, type scale, spacing, radius) and a disciplined component library that keeps a product consistent as it scales. This is not a generic UI role. It's for designers who think in systems, not just designers who can produce a handful of polished screens. This is a general pool for design systems experts. Qualified designers are matched to active, paid projects as they open. Remote and async, as an independent contractor. Commitment: 15-40 hours per week. What you'll do: Translate brand identity into a product-ready system that stays on brand across every surface Direct and refine design work against a brief across multiple rounds, working from an evolving system rather than a blank canvas Evaluate design work for system coherence, visual quality, and brief fit, flagging exactly where adherence breaks and why Compare competing directions, choose the stronger one, and write reasoning clear enough for another senior designer to follow Required skills: Personally built and owned a token-based system (color ramps, type scales, spacing/radius tokens, components with variants and states), not just used one someone else built A sharp eye for adherence: you notice when a radius, casing rule, type step, or spacing value drifts from spec Structured, specific creative direction grounded in design-systems principles, not just taste by feel Comfortable reasoning about systems expressed in code (HTML/CSS/tokens); React or Figma variables experience a plus Expert proficiency in Figma (variables, components, variants, auto layout) Comfortable with AI design tools (Claude, Figma AI, or similar) or eager to work at that frontier Fluent, precise written English