Senior Design Technologist — AI-Driven Design Systems

Warner Bros. Discovery; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery seeks a Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, to drive AI-infused design workflows and scalable design system components across CNN’s digital products.

You’ll bridge design, engineering, and AI to accelerate token generation, component scaffolding, and content automation. You’ll collaborate with product, engineering, research, editorial, analytics, and content strategy to build reusable libraries and ensure alignment with design tokens and system architecture.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in a relevant role such as a design technologist, UX/UI engineer, or product designer.
• Demonstrated ability to incorporate AI into the design workflow to test ideas more efficiently and communicate solutions with greater speed and clarity
• Expert proficiency with Figma 124.4+ including variable maintenance, components, styles, and shared libraries
• Experience creating and maintaining component libraries
• Strong front-end development skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Deep understanding of design systems, component architecture, and design tokens
• Proficiency using an IDE (such as Cursor or Claude )
• Familiarity with current AI capabilities (e.g., generative AI, LLMs, multimodal systems)
• Understanding of prompt design, structured outputs, or API-based AI integrations
• Ability to evaluate AI outputs for quality, bias, and usability
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and experience collaborating with cross-functional partners such as Engineering, Program management, and Product management

Responsibilities

• AI Integration in Design Workflows
• Bridge Design, Engineering, and AI
• Help teams understand feasibility, constraints, and ethical considerations of AI-powered features
• Advocate for high-quality UX in AI-assisted or AI-generated interfaces
• Identify and implement opportunities to integrate AI into design system workflows
• Generating or maintaining design tokens (color, spacing, typography) programmatically
• Automating component creation, documentation, or testing
• Assisting with layout generation, content population, or variant exploration
• Ensure design system artifact s are consumable by AI models, MCPs or other AI-powered tools
• Collaborate with data/ML teams when needed to integrate intelligent or adaptive UI behaviors
• Design System Engineering
• Build and maintain scalable, reusable UI components aligned with design tokens and system architecture
• Ensure consistency between design artifacts (e.g., Figma) and production code
• Contribute to system documentation, usage guidelines, and governance models
• Partner with engineering to ensure performant, accessible implementations
• Enable and empower feature teams to collaborate and contribute on design system enhancements
• Tooling & Workflow Innovation
• Develop internal tools, scripts, plugins, or pipelines to improve efficiency across design and engineering
• Optimize design-to-code workflows using automation and AI augmentation
• Contribute to experimentation frameworks that enable rapid testing of new ideas
• Quality, Accessibility & Responsible AI
• Ensure pixel accuracy, responsiveness, and performance across UI implementations
• Champion accessibility (WCAG) and inclusive design practices
• Advocate for responsible AI usage, including transparency, bias mitigation, and user trust
• Conduct audits of both UI quality and AI-assisted outputs

Skills

Frontend development

Design systems concepts

AI capabilities awareness

Prompt design

IDE proficiency

Education

6+ years in relevant role

Tools

Figma

IDEs (Cursor/Claude)

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery seeks a Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, to drive AI-infused design workflows and scalable design system components across CNN’s digital products.

You’ll bridge design, engineering, and AI to accelerate token generation, component scaffolding, and content automation. You’ll collaborate with product, engineering, research, editorial, analytics, and content strategy to build reusable libraries and ensure alignment with design tokens and system architecture.