Remote Lead Design Systems Technologist

CSAA Insurance Group

Rhode Island

Remote

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist to drive the enterprise design system and its AI-ready foundations. The role focuses on translating UX decisions into scalable code, building tokens, APIs, and shared assets used across products and AI-enabled experiences.

Collaborate with UX, engineering, architecture and platform teams to ensure reusable components, design tokens, and governance across Pega, Guidewire, and internal platforms, while enabling design-to-development

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of progressive experience in design systems, front-end engineering, design technology, or experience architecture.
Strong understanding of design-to-code workflows and API design.

Responsibilities

Lead the technical structure of the enterprise design system.
Translate UX patterns into scalable code structures, including APIs and tokens.
Maintain the connection between design tooling and production code.
Define how design-system assets are structured, governed, and versioned in code.
Collaborate with UX and platform teams to align with third-party platforms like Pega and Guidewire.
Define governance for shared assets and determine what becomes a shared system asset.
Extend the design system to AI and define interfaces, contracts, and patterns for AI-enabled workflows.
Drive adoption and self-sufficiency through documentation and enablement materials.