Senior Design Systems Technologist — Remote

CSAA Insurance Group; Maryland; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist to architect and evolve the enterprise design system, bridging UX intent with scalable code and AI-ready foundations.

You will collaborate with UX, CX, Engineering, and platform teams to translate design decisions into reusable, production-ready assets and to extend foundations for AI-enabled experiences. This role emphasizes governance, tooling, and scalable implementation across products.

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

• Lead the Technical Structure of the Enterprise Design System.
• Extend the Design System to AI.
• Enable Design-to-Development Readiness.
• Partner with Engineering and Architecture on Realization.
• Drive Adoption and Self-Sufficiency.
• Partner Across the Design System Ecosystem.
• Contribute to the Practice.
• Keep one coherent system across internal and customer-facing experiences.

Skills

Front-end engineering

Design systems

APIs and design tokens

API design

AI-assisted development tools

Written communication

Influence across teams

Ambiguity tolerance

Design-to-code translation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AI-assisted development tools

Job description

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Lead Design Technologist to architect and evolve the enterprise design system, bridging UX intent with scalable code and AI-ready foundations.

You will collaborate with UX, CX, Engineering, and platform teams to translate design decisions into reusable, production-ready assets and to extend foundations for AI-enabled experiences. This role emphasizes governance, tooling, and scalable implementation across products.