Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, CNN

Job Overview

You are a Senior Design Technologist on the CNN Digital Product Design Team, responsible for translating design intent into scalable, system‑driven UI while identifying how AI can augment, accelerate, and transform design system workflows.

• AI Integration in Design Workflows: 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 (e.g., token generation, component scaffolding, content generation, and workflow automation); ensure design system artifacts are consumable by AI models or other AI‑powered tools; collaborate 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 (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 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.

• 6+ years in a relevant role such as a design technologist, UX/UI engineer, or product designer.
• Enterprise, platform, 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 (version 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) and 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.

Pay Range: $98,280.00 – $ per year.

Other 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.

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