Lead Design Systems Technologist (Remote)

CSAA Insurance Group; Tennessee; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group in the United States seeks a Lead Design Technologist for Design Systems, remotely located in the U.S. This senior role builds and evolves the technical foundation for consistent digital and AI experiences across CSAA, translating UX standards into scalable assets such as components, tokens, APIs, and shared packages.

Working with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture, and Workflow/Systems Design, you connect design intent with implementation to enable reuse across applications

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in design systems, front-end engineering, or experience architecture.
• Strong hands-on front-end engineering 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

• Define and maintain the technical structure of the enterprise design system.
• Translate approved patterns, templates, and design decisions into scalable structures in code, including APIs and tokens.
• Extend the design-system foundations to support AI models and agents.
• Define how assets are structured, composed, governed, and versioned in code for reuse across products.
• Collaborate with UX and platform teams to resolve platform-specific translations and extensions.

Skills

Front-end engineering

Design systems

AI-assisted development tools

Design-to-code workflows

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Design tokens

Component libraries

API design

MCP servers

Job description

CSAA Insurance Group in the United States seeks a Lead Design Technologist for Design Systems, remotely located in the U.S. This senior role builds and evolves the technical foundation for consistent digital and AI experiences across CSAA, translating UX standards into scalable assets such as components, tokens, APIs, and shared packages.

Working with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture, and Workflow/Systems Design, you connect design intent with implementation to enable reuse across applications