Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, CNN

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.

Role Accountabilities

• Ai Integration in Design Workflows
• Bridge Design, Engineering, and AI
• 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 (color, spacing, typography) programmatically
• 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
• Design System Engineering
• Build and maintain scalable, reusable UI components aligned with design tokens and system architecture
• 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.
• 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 (e.g., 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.