Lead Design Systems Technologist - Remote

CSAA Insurance Group; Kansas; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist, Design Systems for a remote role to drive the technical foundation of enterprise design assets and AI-enabled experiences. You will translate UX decisions into scalable code, tokens, APIs, and shared packages used across multiple products and platforms.

You will collaborate with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture, and AI governance to ensure consistent design-system implementation, governance, and cross-team adoption while maintaining a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in design systems, front-end engineering, design technology, or experience architecture, including technical ownership or stewardship of a design system implemented in code.
• Strong hands-on front-end engineering experience with a modern component framework, including component structure, composition, and API design.
• 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.
• Ability to define the structure and technical direction of a shared system and partner effectively with Engineering and Architecture to bring it to life, rather than needing to build every part personally.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to create documentation and standards that teams can understand and use.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across design and engineering teams without formal authority.
• Comfort working through ambiguity, including in areas where the field and standards are still evolving.
• Ability to translate between design and engineering audiences, turning design intent into implementable system structures without losing important details in either direction.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Technical Structure of the Enterprise Design System.
• Extend the Design System to AI.
• Enable Design-to-Development Readiness.
• Partner with Engineering and Architecture on Realization.
• Drive Adoption and Self-Sufficiency.
• Partner Across the Design System Ecosystem.
• Contribute to the Practice.

Skills

Design systems

Front-end engineering

API design

AI-assisted development tools

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Design tokens

Shared packages

MCP servers

Job description

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist, Design Systems for a remote role to drive the technical foundation of enterprise design assets and AI-enabled experiences. You will translate UX decisions into scalable code, tokens, APIs, and shared packages used across multiple products and platforms.

You will collaborate with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture, and AI governance to ensure consistent design-system implementation, governance, and cross-team adoption while maintaining a