Lead Design Technologist, Design Systems (Remote)

CSAA Insurance Group; Idaho; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist, Design Systems to shape the technical foundation for consistent, high-quality digital and AI experiences. You will translate UX standards into scalable assets, APIs, and shared packages used by development teams and AI-enabled systems.

You will partner with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture, and Platform teams to evolve the enterprise design system, including AI foundations, tokens, and reference implementations, while driving

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years in design systems, front-end engineering, or experience architecture with technical ownership.
• Strong hands-on front-end engineering experience with a modern component framework.
• Experience implementing and governing design tokens, component libraries, and reusable UX patterns at enterprise scale.
• Practical experience with design-to-code workflows and tools that connect design assets to production components.
• Fluent with AI-assisted development tools and context/tool definitions.
• Ability to define structure and direction of a shared system with partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Technical Structure of the Enterprise Design System.
• Translate UX patterns into scalable code structures, APIs, and shared packages.
• Maintain connections between design tooling and production code.
• Define asset structure, governance, and versioning for reuse across products.
• Collaborate with UX, Engineering, Architecture to align third-party platforms and extensions.
• Define procedures to contribute, update, deprecate, and version assets.
• Drive adoption and self-sufficiency with documentation and enablement.

Skills

Design systems

Front-end engineering

API design

Design tokens

AI-assisted development tools

Technical ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation and standards

Translate design to code

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Design system tooling

Job description

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist, Design Systems to shape the technical foundation for consistent, high-quality digital and AI experiences. You will translate UX standards into scalable assets, APIs, and shared packages used by development teams and AI-enabled systems.

You will partner with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture, and Platform teams to evolve the enterprise design system, including AI foundations, tokens, and reference implementations, while driving