Lead Design Technologist, Design Systems — Remote & AI-Ready

CSAA Insurance Group; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist to shape the technical backbone of our Design System and extend it to AI-enabled experiences. You’ll translate UX standards into scalable code structures, APIs, and shared assets, working with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture, and platform teams to ensure consistency across products and AI contexts.

The role emphasizes ownership of design-system assets, governance, and collaboration to deliver enterprise-scale, reusable solutions,

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Technical Structure of the Enterprise Design System.
• Partner with UX Design to translate approved patterns, templates, and design decisions into scalable structures in code, including component APIs, design tokens, shared packages, and implementation standards.
• Maintain the connection between design tooling and code so approved UX definitions can be implemented accurately and consistently in production.
• Define how design-system assets are structured, composed, governed, and versioned in code so they can be reused consistently across products and applications.
• Partner with UX and platform teams to resolve how CSAA's design standards and technical system assets translate into third-party platforms such as Pega and Guidewire, where CSAA does not control the underlying design system.
• Define clear ways to contribute, update, deprecate, and version shared system assets without disrupting the teams that depend on them.
• Set clear criteria for what should become a shared system asset versus what should remain specific to one product, platform, or solution.
• Extend the Design System to AI
• Define and maintain the technical design-system foundations needed for AI models and AI agents, including foundations, capabilities, interfaces & contracts, patterns, reference implementations, evaluation, observability, and governance.

Skills

Front-end engineering

Design systems

API design

AI-aware development

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Design tokens

Component libraries

MCP servers

Job description

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist to shape the technical backbone of our Design System and extend it to AI-enabled experiences. You’ll translate UX standards into scalable code structures, APIs, and shared assets, working with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture, and platform teams to ensure consistency across products and AI contexts.

The role emphasizes ownership of design-system assets, governance, and collaboration to deliver enterprise-scale, reusable solutions,