Senior Design Technologist: AI-Driven Design Systems

Turner Services Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 98,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays and sick time

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN Digital Product Design Team, seeks a Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, to translate design intent into scalable UI while applying AI to workflows.

You will shape a world-class design system across multi-platform experiences consumed by millions, collaborating with product, engineering, and editorial teams. The role focuses on AI-driven token generation, component scaffolding, content generation, and automation, ensuring accessible, high-quality UI with

Qualifications

• 6+ years in a role such as a design technologist, UX/UI engineer, or product designer.
• Expert proficiency with Figma 124.4+ including variable maintenance, components, styles, and shared libraries.
• Strong front-end development skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Deep understanding of design systems, component architecture, and design tokens.
• Proficiency using an IDE (e.g., Cursor or Claude).

Responsibilities

• Bridge design, engineering, and AI to integrate AI into design workflows and tokens.
• Build and maintain scalable, reusable UI components aligned with tokens and system architecture.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, research, editorial, analytics and other designers.
• Develop internal tools and pipelines to improve design-to-code workflows using automation and AI.
• Champion accessibility and responsible AI usage across UI implementations.

Skills

Figma

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Design systems

Components libraries

Token maintenance

AI design workflows

UX collaboration

Tools

Cursor (IDE)

Claude (AI tools)

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN Digital Product Design Team, seeks a Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, to translate design intent into scalable UI while applying AI to workflows.

You will shape a world-class design system across multi-platform experiences consumed by millions, collaborating with product, engineering, and editorial teams. The role focuses on AI-driven token generation, component scaffolding, content generation, and automation, ensuring accessible, high-quality UI with