UX​/UI Designer, Design Systems Consultant; AI-Fluent) AI skills Austin , Rightsideup MCP Claude Code Figma Make

This posting is to join Right Side Up's talent collective and is not an internal full-time role or a current client opportunity. Right Side Up is a collective of marketing talent serving over 1,400+ clients including Stitch Fix, Sephora, Yelp, Sun Basket, Crunchbase, Door Dash, and Calm. They are seeking freelance UX/UI Designers who specialize in design systems to help clients modernize systems for workflows where humans and AI tools build side by side.

Contract projects typically range from ten to forty hours per week and often run as focused, timeboxed engagements rather than open-ended retainers.

• Audit existing design systems for structural gaps: tokens versus variables, component architecture, and missing or outdated documentation.
• Resolve foundational issues (naming, token structure, variable setup) so a design system translates cleanly into documentation and code without introducing breaking changes for engineering.
• Build and maintain design system documentation covering components, patterns, usage guidelines, and variant rules in a structured format for AI-fluent workflows and both human and AI readability.
• Configure and maintain AI-tooling connections between design platforms (Figma, documentation platforms) and AI coding or design assistants (Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Figma Make, Git Hub Copilot, and similar), often via MCP-style integrations.
• Extract undocumented institutional knowledge from designers and engineers and turn it into clear, actionable documentation.
• Establish or refine governance models, contribution workflows, and success metrics so a design system stays healthy after the engagement ends.
• Collaborate closely with design and engineering stakeholders, translating between the two without needing to write production code.
• Stay current on evolving AI-assisted design and design-to-code workflows as the tooling landscape shifts.

• Strong experience in design systems, UX/UI design, or design engineering with depth at the foundational level (tokens, variables, component architecture), not just visual component work.
• Genuine, hands-on fluency with AI-assisted design or coding tools and technical comfort to configure AI-tooling connections rather than just use them.
• Strong written communication skills for turning tribal knowledge into documentation for people and AI tools.
• Comfortable working independently on defined, timeboxed engagements with light day-to-day oversight.
• Adaptable to different company environments, including regulated or compliance-sensitive ones where design-to-production handoffs stay manual by design.