Remote Lead Design Technologist - Design Systems

CSAA Insurance Group; Ohio; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group—CSAA IG is seeking a Lead Design Technologist to shape the enterprise design system and its AI-enabled extensions. You will translate UX standards into scalable code assets, tokens, APIs, and shared packages, collaborating with UX, CX, Engineering, and Platform teams.

You will extend the design system for AI, define governance, and ensure consistent implementation across products and channels, while driving adoption through documentation and enablement for multiple teams.

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 the structure and technical requirements for shared system assets, then partner with Engineering to build and operate them and with Architecture to determine how they are integrated within the enterprise technology ecosystem.
• Build prototypes and proofs of concept when fastest to test a structural decision or reduce risk.
• Stay connected through delivery so the implementation reflects the approved UX intent, the design system's technical standards, and agreed enterprise architecture decisions.
• Define the design-system foundations for AI models and AI agents, including prompts, tokens, MCP servers, and governance guidelines.
• Drive adoption and self-sufficiency by creating documentation, examples, and enablement materials that teams can use independently.

Skills

Front-end engineering

Design systems

Design tokens

API design

AI-assisted development tools

Communication skills

Team influence

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

MCP servers

Component libraries

Job description

CSAA Insurance Group—CSAA IG is seeking a Lead Design Technologist to shape the enterprise design system and its AI-enabled extensions. You will translate UX standards into scalable code assets, tokens, APIs, and shared packages, collaborating with UX, CX, Engineering, and Platform teams.

You will extend the design system for AI, define governance, and ensure consistent implementation across products and channels, while driving adoption through documentation and enablement for multiple teams.