Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, CNN

Warner Media, LLC.; 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 and sick time

Vacation

Job summary

Warner Media, LLC. in Atlanta is seeking a Design Technologist to bridge the gap between design, engineering, and AI capabilities. This role entails translating design intent into scalable UI while implementing AI to enhance workflows.

As a senior member of the CNN Digital Product Design Team, you will help create reusable libraries and advocate for quality UX in AI-driven interfaces. A minimum of 6 years in a relevant role and proficiency in Figma is required.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in a relevant role such as design technologist, UX/UI engineer, or product designer.
• Expert proficiency with Figma, including variable maintenance and component libraries.
• Strong front-end development skills in a major framework (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).

Responsibilities

• Integrate AI into design workflows to enhance efficiency and clarity.
• Build and maintain scalable UI components aligned with design tokens.
• Develop internal tools to optimize design-to-code workflows.

Skills

Figma proficiency

Front-end development skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

Understanding of design systems

Communication skills

Familiarity with current AI capabilities

Education

6+ years in design technologist or related role

Tools

IDE (Cursor or Claude)

Job description

Your New Role

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 also identifying how AI can augment, accelerate, and transform design system workflows.

As a Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, you are a member of the world‑class CNN Digital Product Design Team. You build and maintain design systems, apply AI across design and development, and collaborate with product, engineering, research, editorial, analytics, content strategy, and other designers to build reusable libraries that support speed and innovation.

Your Role Accountabilities

• 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 programmatically, automating component creation, documentation, or testing; assisting with layout generation, content population, or variant exploration; ensuring design system artifacts are consumable by AI models; and collaborating with data/ML teams when needed.
• Design system engineering: Build and maintain scalable, reusable UI components aligned with design tokens and system architecture; ensure consistency between design artifacts 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 to 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 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, including variable maintenance, components, styles, and shared libraries.
• Experience creating and maintaining component libraries.
• Strong front‑end development skills in a major framework (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
• 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 such as generative AI, LLMs, and 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.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to 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. If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

Compensation

Pay Range: $98,280.00 - $182,520.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short‑ and long‑term incentives, and program‑specific awards. Warner Bros. Discovery also provides health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time, and vacation.