Remote Senior Design Systems Lead

The Cigna Group; Tennessee; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cigna Group is hiring a founding Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer to help build Verity Canvas, a design system for healthcare software. The role sits at the nexus of Figma, React, accessibility, and production code, aligning real code with the Figma library during Angular-to-React migrations.

You will own the component library, token pipelines, and a code-to-Figma workflow, collaborating with designers and product teams to ensure scalable, accessible UI across platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building front-end systems, design systems, or component libraries with React and TypeScript.
• Experience designing typed component APIs and shipping a design system as a published package used by other teams.
• Hands‑on experience with Figma Dev Mode, variables, and Code Connect, or similar design‑to‑code workflows.
• Experience building design token pipelines using DTCG formats and tools such as Style Dictionary or Tokens Studio.
• Strong accessibility expertise, including ARIA, keyboard interaction, focus management, and automated checks such as axe.
• Experience with Storybook, visual regression testing, CI/CD, modern Git workflows, and package management in monorepos.

Responsibilities

• Own the @verity/ui component library as a versioned package built on accessible headless primitives and styled through design tokens.
• Build and maintain the @verity/tokens pipeline from DTCG design tokens through Style Dictionary, CSS custom properties, and typed output.
• Create a code-to-Figma token workflow using Figma Variables, staging files, and review practices that prevent silent design drift.
• Author Code Connect mappings so Figma Dev Mode and coding agents generate real @verity/ui components instead of generic markup.
• Define the AI-ready system surface, including MCP context, component manifests, registries, repo guidance, and agent evaluation workflows.
• Strengthen CI quality gates for accessibility, visual regression, app-level regression, linting, and code ownership.
• Manage release discipline through Changesets, semantic versioning, API contract checks, and migration-ready codemods.
• Partner with designers and product teams on Figma conventions, adoption, governance, promotion, and deprecation workflows.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Design systems

Figma Dev Mode

Accessibility

Storybook

CI/CD

Monorepos

Design tokens

Code Connect

Tools

Style Dictionary

Tokens Studio

pnpm workspaces

Turborepo

API Extractor

Job description

The Cigna Group is hiring a founding Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer to help build Verity Canvas, a design system for healthcare software. The role sits at the nexus of Figma, React, accessibility, and production code, aligning real code with the Figma library during Angular-to-React migrations.

You will own the component library, token pipelines, and a code-to-Figma workflow, collaborating with designers and product teams to ensure scalable, accessible UI across platforms.