Senior Design Technologist: AI-Driven Design Systems

Warner Bros. Discovery; New York (NY); On-site; USD 98,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays

Sick time and vacation

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a Senior Design Technologist to join the CNN Digital Product Design Team, shaping AI-powered UI systems at scale.

You will bridge design, engineering, and AI to build reusable libraries and token-driven components across CNN’s digital experiences. Collaborate with product, research, editorial, and engineering on AI-enabled workflows, ensuring accessibility, performance, and pixel-perfect implementations across platforms.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in a design technologist, UX/UI engineer, or product designer role.
• Enterprise or internal tool experience is preferred.
• Ability to incorporate AI into design workflows to speed up ideas and solutions.
• Expert proficiency with Figma, including variable maintenance, components, styles, and shared libraries.
• Experience creating and maintaining component libraries.
• Strong frontend skills in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Deep understanding of design systems, components, and tokens.
• Proficiency with an IDE.
• Solid grounding in interaction and visual design and UX principles.
• Familiarity with generative AI, LLMs, multimodal systems.
• Understanding of prompts, structured outputs, or API AI integrations.
• Ability to evaluate AI outputs for quality, bias, and usability.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, PM, and Product teams.

Responsibilities

• AI Integration in Design Workflows
• Bridge Design, Engineering, and AI
• Explain feasibility, constraints, and ethical AI considerations
• Advocate for high‑quality UX in AI-assisted interfaces
• Identify and implement AI in design system workflows
• Generate/maintain design tokens programmatically
• Automate component creation, documentation, or testing
• Assist with layout generation, content population, or variant exploration
• Ensure design system artifacts are consumable by AI models
• Collaborate with data/ML teams to integrate intelligent UI behaviors
• Design System Engineering: reusable UI components and tokens
• Ensure consistency between design artifacts and production code
• Contribute to system documentation, guidelines, governance
• Partner with engineering for performant implementations
• Enable feature teams to contribute on design system enhancements
• Tooling & workflow innovation: build internal tools or pipelines
• Optimize design-to-code workflows with automation and AI
• Experimentation frameworks for rapid testing
• Quality, accessibility and responsible AI: WCAG, bias mitigation
• Audits of UI quality and AI-assisted outputs

Skills

Design systems

AI integration

Figma

Front-end development

Design tokens

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a Senior Design Technologist to join the CNN Digital Product Design Team, shaping AI-powered UI systems at scale.

You will bridge design, engineering, and AI to build reusable libraries and token-driven components across CNN’s digital experiences. Collaborate with product, research, editorial, and engineering on AI-enabled workflows, ensuring accessibility, performance, and pixel-perfect implementations across platforms.