Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer - Verity Solutions, Remote

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cigna Group's Verity Solutions is seeking a founding Senior Manager to lead design systems engineering for Verity Canvas, our code-canonical UI system for healthcare software. You will align Figma libraries with production code in React, creating accessible components that product teams can trust.

As we migrate from Angular to React, you will define token pipelines, CI gates, and governance to ensure a scalable UI system across multiple teams while partnering with designers and engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building front-end systems, design systems, or component libraries with React and TypeScript.
• Experience designing typed component APIs and shipping a design system as a published package used by other teams.
• Hands-on experience with Figma Dev Mode, variables, and Code Connect, or similar design-to-code workflows.
• Experience building design token pipelines using tools like Style Dictionary or Tokens Studio.

Responsibilities

• Own the @verity/ui component library as a versioned package built on accessible headless primitives.
• Create and maintain the design tokens pipeline from token sources to styled output.
• Define and optimize the code-to-figma workflow to minimize design drift and improve collaboration.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Design Systems

Figma Dev Mode

Accessibility

Tools

Style Dictionary

Tokens Studio

Storybook

pnpm

Turborepo

Job description

## Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer - Verity Solutions, RemoteApplyremote type: Remotelocations: Tennessee Work at Home: Texas Work at Hometime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: 26008895Verity is hiring a founding Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer to build Verity Canvas, our code-canonical design system for healthcare software. This role sits at the center of Figma, React, accessibility, and production code. You will keep our real codebase and Figma library aligned, turning design decisions into type-safe, accessible components that product teams can trust. As we migrate from Angular to React, you will help build the system that makes our next generation of UI consistent, scalable, and meaningful for the people who rely on it.**Responsibilities*** Own the @verity/ui component library as a versioned package built on accessible headless primitives and styled through design tokens.* Build and maintain the @verity/tokens pipeline from DTCG design tokens through Style Dictionary, CSS custom properties, and typed output.* Create a code-to-Figma token workflow using Figma Variables, staging files, and review practices that prevent silent design drift.* Author Code Connect mappings so Figma Dev Mode and coding agents generate real @verity/ui components instead of generic markup.* Define the AI-ready system surface, including MCP context, component manifests, registries, repo guidance, and agent evaluation workflows.* Strengthen CI quality gates for accessibility, visual regression, app-level regression, linting, and code ownership.* Manage release discipline through Changesets, semantic versioning, API contract checks, and migration-ready codemods.* Partner with designers and product teams on Figma conventions, adoption, governance, promotion, and deprecation workflows.**Required Qualifications*** Minimum 5+ years of experience building front-end systems, design systems, or component libraries with React and TypeScript.* Experience designing typed component APIs and shipping a design system as a published package used by other teams.* Hands-on experience with Figma Dev Mode, variables, and Code Connect, or similar design-to-code workflows.* Experience building design token pipelines using DTCG formats and tools such as Style Dictionary or Tokens Studio.* Strong accessibility expertise, including ARIA, keyboard interaction, focus management, and automated checks such as axe.* Experience with Storybook, visual regression testing, CI/CD, modern Git workflows, and package management in monorepos.**Preferred Qualifications*** Experience with Base UI, Radix, React Aria, Ariakit, or similar headless primitive libraries.* Experience with pnpm workspaces, Turborepo, Changesets, semver, API Extractor, or type-aware codemods.* Experience with AI-native development workflows, MCP tooling, coding agents, registries, or agent evaluation harnesses.* Experience pushing tokens from code into Figma or working with the Figma Variables REST API.* Experience in healthcare, regulated environments, or products where accessibility and precision are essential. If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.**About The Cigna Group**Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.*Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.**If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email* ***[e-mail]*** *for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.**The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.**Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.*