Remote Lead Design Systems Technologist (AI-Ready)

CSAA Insurance Group; New Hampshire; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist, Design Systems for a remote role in the United States. You will lead the technical structure of the enterprise design system and partner with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture to translate design intents into scalable code.

You will extend the design system to AI, define tokens, APIs, and shared assets, and govern iterations across products and platforms, including Pega and Guidewire.

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.
• Working fluency with AI-assisted development tools and a practical understanding of how AI models use context, skills, and tool definitions.
• Ability to define the structure and technical direction of a shared system and partner effectively with Engineering and Architecture to bring it to life, rather than needing to build every part personally.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to create documentation and standards that teams can understand and use.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across design and engineering teams without formal authority.
• Comfort working through ambiguity, including in areas where the field and standards are still evolving.
• Ability to translate between design and engineering audiences, turning design intent into implementable system structures without losing important details in either direction.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the technical structure of the design system.
• Translate approved patterns 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 across products and applications.
• Define what can be reused directly, what requires platform-specific implementation, and where extensions are needed for third-party platforms like Pega and Guidewire.
• Define clear ways to contribute, update, deprecate, and version shared system assets without disrupting dependent teams.
• Set clear criteria for shared system assets versus product-specific implementations.

Skills

Front-end engineering

Design systems

AI-enabled experiences

Design tokens

API design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Pega

Guidewire

Job description

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist, Design Systems for a remote role in the United States. You will lead the technical structure of the enterprise design system and partner with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture to translate design intents into scalable code.

You will extend the design system to AI, define tokens, APIs, and shared assets, and govern iterations across products and platforms, including Pega and Guidewire.