Senior Design Systems Technologist, Remote

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

Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG) seeks a Lead Design Technologist to own the enterprise Design System’s technical backbone, including components, tokens, APIs, and shared packages. You will partner with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture, and AI governance to deliver scalable, reusable assets that span products and AI-enabled experiences.

You will drive adoption, define governance, and extend the system to AI, ensuring consistent design-language translation into production-grade code and cross-team

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 hands-on front-end engineering experience with a modern component framework.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Technical Structure of the Enterprise Design System.
• Translate UX patterns into scalable code structures including APIs and shared packages.
• Maintain connection between design tooling and production code for consistent implementation.
• Define how design-system assets are structured, governed, and versioned in code.
• Collaborate with UX, platform teams, and AI governance to ensure reusable, extensible assets across products and AI experiences.
• Define criteria for shared assets vs. product-specific implementations.
• Extend the design system to AI with foundations, capabilities, interfaces, patterns, and observability.

Skills

Front-end engineering

Design systems

Design tokens

AI-assisted development tools

Technical collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

MCP servers

Design tokens pipelines

Job description

CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG) seeks a Lead Design Technologist to own the enterprise Design System’s technical backbone, including components, tokens, APIs, and shared packages. You will partner with UX, CX, Engineering, Architecture, and AI governance to deliver scalable, reusable assets that span products and AI-enabled experiences.

You will drive adoption, define governance, and extend the system to AI, ensuring consistent design-language translation into production-grade code and cross-team