Lead Design Systems Technologist — Remote AI-Ready

CSAA Insurance Group; Massachusetts; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist for Design Systems to drive a scalable, AI-ready design platform. You will own the technical foundation and collaborate with UX, CX, Engineering, and Architecture to translate design intent into reusable code assets.

This senior role focuses on building the enterprise design-system structure, tokens, APIs, and shared packages, ensuring consistency across products and AI experiences while guiding governance and versioning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 8+ years in design systems, front-end engineering, or experience architecture.
• Ability to translate UX decisions into scalable technical assets.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical structure of the enterprise design system.
• Translate patterns and decisions into scalable code with APIs and tokens.
• Maintain connections between design tooling and production code.
• Define asset structure, versioning, and governance across products.
• Collaborate with UX, platform, and AI teams for cross-platform reuse.
• Define contribution, update, and deprecation processes for shared assets.
• Set criteria for shared vs product-specific system assets.

Skills

Design systems

Front-end engineering

Design technology

Experience architecture

Design tokens

Component libraries

API design

AI-assisted development tools

Design-to-code workflows

Documentation & standards

Influence without authority

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Design Technology, or related field

Tools

MCP servers

Design tokens tools

AI model context tooling

Job description

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist for Design Systems to drive a scalable, AI-ready design platform. You will own the technical foundation and collaborate with UX, CX, Engineering, and Architecture to translate design intent into reusable code assets.

This senior role focuses on building the enterprise design-system structure, tokens, APIs, and shared packages, ensuring consistency across products and AI experiences while guiding governance and versioning.