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Instrument, founded in 2005 with headquarters in Portland, Oregon, is a multidisciplinary agency dedicated to creating expressive and lasting digital experience
Associate Design Director – Contract
Location
Texas
Posted
68 days ago
Salary
$78 - $96 / hour
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Associate Design Director – Contract
Instrument Creative
• Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to evolve and scale a **multi-brand design system** • Define and drive **system-level thinking** across the product experience—balancing consistency with flexibility • Translate product and UX needs into **scalable, reusable components and patterns** • Lead design direction with a strong POV on **usability, interaction, and visual craft** • Collaborate in Figma using **advanced workflows (libraries, branching, versioning)** • Contribute to or generate **clear documentation**, potentially leveraging AI-assisted workflows (e.g., Figma MCP + coding assistants) • Ensure design outputs are **production-ready and aligned with system standards**
Job Requirements
- Proven experience as an **Associate Design Director / Lead Product Designer** on complex digital products
- Strong background in **product design and UX**, with systems-level thinking
- Deep experience building and scaling **multi-brand design systems**
- Expertise in **Figma**, including:
- Libraries and components
- Versioning + branching workflows
- Experience with **design tokens managed externally** (must-have)
- Familiarity with **Tokens Studio** (must-have)
- Strong understanding of how design systems translate into **engineering and implementation**
- Ability to work cross-functionally and influence at both **strategic and executional levels**
- Experience generating documentation using **AI-assisted workflows** (e.g., Figma MCP integrations) - (nice to have)
- Exposure to engineering workflows or system implementation (without needing to directly code) - (nice to have)
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