Lead Design Systems Technologist, AI-Driven, Remote

CSAA Insurance Group; Nebraska; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG) is hiring a Lead Design Technologist to own the technical foundation of our Design System and extend it to AI-enabled experiences. You will bridge UX intent and scalable code, creating tokens, APIs, and shared assets used across products and AI agents.

The role collaborates with UX, CX, Engineering, and Platform teams to ensure reusable assets and consistent standards, including governance, versioning, and platform integration. Remote work supported.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in design systems, front-end engineering, design technology, or experience architecture.
• Strong hands-on front-end engineering experience with a modern component framework.
• Experience implementing and governing design tokens, component libraries, and the technical expression of reusable UX patterns at enterprise scale.
• Practical experience with design-to-code workflows and the tools that connect design assets to production components.
• Working fluency with AI-assisted development tools and a practical understanding of how AI models use context, skills, and tool definitions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Technical Structure of the Enterprise Design System.
• Translate UX patterns into scalable structures in code, including component APIs and design tokens.
• Maintain the connection between design tooling and code for production readiness.
• Define how design-system assets are structured, governed, and versioned in code.
• Collaborate with UX and platform teams to translate standards to third-party platforms (e.g., Pega, Guidewire).
• Define governance for shared assets and criteria for what becomes a shared asset.
• Contribute to the practice by maturing methods, standards, and templates.
• Support AI/agent-facing capabilities and governance.

Skills

Front-end engineering

Design systems

API design

Design tokens

AI-assisted development tools

Design-to-code workflows

Documentation & standards

Cross-functional collaboration

System architecture influence

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG) is hiring a Lead Design Technologist to own the technical foundation of our Design System and extend it to AI-enabled experiences. You will bridge UX intent and scalable code, creating tokens, APIs, and shared assets used across products and AI agents.

The role collaborates with UX, CX, Engineering, and Platform teams to ensure reusable assets and consistent standards, including governance, versioning, and platform integration. Remote work supported.