Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, CNN

CNN; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 98,280 - 182,520; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee wellness program

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

CNN in Atlanta is looking for a Senior Design Technologist to bridge design, engineering, and AI integration. This role involves automating workflows, advocating for UX, and ensuring consistent design system implementations.

Ideal candidates will have 6+ years of relevant experience and proficiency in Figma. The position also offers competitive compensation, including a base pay range of $98,280 – $182,520 per year and robust benefits.

Qualifications

• Expert proficiency with Figma including variable maintenance and component libraries.
• Deep understanding of AI capabilities and prompt design.
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Translate design intent into scalable UI.
• Develop internal tools and scripts for efficiency.
• Ensure quality and accessibility across UI implementations.

Skills

Design technology

AI integration

Collaboration

Figma expertise

Interaction design

Accessibility

Education

6+ years in a relevant role

Tools

Figma

IDE (Cursor or Claude)

Job description

Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems

We are seeking a Design Technologist who operates at the intersection of design, engineering, and emerging AI capabilities. This role is responsible for translating design intent into scalable, system‑driven UI while identifying how AI can augment, accelerate, and transform design system workflows.

Role Accountabilities

• AI Integration in Design Workflows
  • Generate or 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 or other AI tools
  • Collaborate with data/ML teams for intelligent UI behaviors
• 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
• 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

Qualifications & Experience

• 6+ years in a relevant role such as a design technologist, UX/UI engineer, or product designer
• Enterprise, platforms, and/or internal tools experience preferred
• 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
• Deep understanding of design systems, component architecture, and design tokens
• Proficiency using an IDE such as Cursor or Claude
• Solid grounding in interaction design, visual design, and UX principles
• Familiarity with current AI capabilities (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

Compensation & Benefits

Base pay range: $98,280.00 – $182,520.00 per year. Additional rewards may include annual bonuses, short‑ and long‑term incentives, and program‑specific awards. Benefits include health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, sick time, and vacation.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Warner Bros. Discovery is an equal‑opportunity employer. We consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law.