Lead Design Systems Technologist — Remote & AI-Ready

CSAA Insurance Group; South Dakota; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist, Design Systems - Remote. This senior role builds and evolves the technical foundation for enterprise design systems and AI-enabled experiences, partnering with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture, and governance teams.

You will translate UX decisions into scalable code, maintain tokens and components, and ensure consistency across products and AI workflows. This role emphasizes governance, tooling, and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in design systems, front-end engineering, or experience architecture with ownership of a design system.
• Strong hands-on front-end engineering with modern component frameworks, API design, and component composition.
• Experience governing design tokens and enterprise-scale UX patterns in code.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tools and understanding of how models use context, skills, and tool definitions.
• Ability to translate design intent into scalable technical structures and shared assets.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the technical structure of the enterprise design system, including components, tokens, patterns, and shared packages.
• Translate approved UX patterns into scalable code structures, APIs, tokens, shared packages, and implementation standards.
• Maintain alignment between design tooling and production components for accurate, consistent delivery.
• Define how design-system assets are structured, governed, and versioned in code for cross-product reuse.
• Collaborate with UX, platform teams, and AI governance to enable reuse across products and AI experiences.

Skills

Frontend engineering

Design tokens

Component libraries

AI tools for development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Design-to-code tools

Job description

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist, Design Systems - Remote. This senior role builds and evolves the technical foundation for enterprise design systems and AI-enabled experiences, partnering with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture, and governance teams.

You will translate UX decisions into scalable code, maintain tokens and components, and ensure consistency across products and AI workflows. This role emphasizes governance, tooling, and cross-team collaboration.