Senior Design Technologist, AI-Driven Design Systems

Warner Bros. Discovery; Washington; Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays and vacation

Job summary

CNN Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, hybrid position located across Washington, DC, and other U.S. hubs, is responsible for translating design intent into scalable UI while integrating AI to accelerate design workflows.

You will join the CNN Digital Product Design Team to build and maintain CNN’s multi‑platform design system, enabling reusable libraries and AI-enabled tokens, components, and tooling for speed and innovation.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in a relevant role such as a design technologist, UX/UI engineer, or product designer.

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, such as generating or maintaining design tokens
• Automating component creation, documentation, or testing
• Assisting with layout generation, content population, or variant exploration
• Ensure design system artifacts 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
• 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
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Job description

CNN Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, hybrid position located across Washington, DC, and other U.S. hubs, is responsible for translating design intent into scalable UI while integrating AI to accelerate design workflows.

You will join the CNN Digital Product Design Team to build and maintain CNN’s multi‑platform design system, enabling reusable libraries and AI-enabled tokens, components, and tooling for speed and innovation.