Senior Design Systems Technologist - Remote

CSAA

West Virginia

Remote

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group invites a Lead Design Technologist to shape the enterprise Design System and its AI-enabled evolution. You will own technical foundations, APIs, and tokens, partnering with UX, Engineering, and Architecture to deliver scalable, reusable assets across products and AI experiences.

The role emphasizes governance, collaboration, and strong front-end leadership to drive adoption and consistency enterprise-wide.

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.
Working fluency with AI-assisted development tools and a practical understanding of how AI models use context, skills, and tool definitions.
Ability to translate between design and engineering audiences, turning design intent into implementable system structures without losing important details.

Responsibilities

Lead the Technical Structure of the Enterprise Design System.
Translate patterns and decisions into scalable code structures, including APIs, tokens, and shared packages.
Maintain connection between design tooling and production code.
Define how design-system assets are structured, governed, and versioned in code.
Collaborate with UX, platform teams, and external platforms to ensure reusable assets and platform-specific implementations.
Define governance for updates, deprecation, and versioning of shared assets.
Extend the design system to AI, including foundations, capabilities, interfaces, patterns, and observability.