Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, CNN

This role operates at the intersection of design, engineering, and emerging AI capabilities, translating design intent into scalable, system-driven UI while identifying how AI can augment, accelerate, and transform design system workflows. The role sits within the CNN Digital Product Design Team and the Vossi Design System team, which builds and maintains CNN's multi-platform design system. The position collaborates with product, engineering, research, editorial, analytics, content strategy, and other designers to build reusable libraries that support speed and innovation towards a stellar end user experience.

• Integrate AI into design system workflows, including generating or maintaining design tokens programmatically, automating component creation, documentation, or testing, and assisting with layout generation, content population, or variant exploration.
• Bridge design, engineering, and AI by helping teams understand feasibility, constraints, and ethical considerations of AI-powered features, and advocate for high-quality UX in AI-assisted or AI-generated interfaces.
• Ensure design system artifacts are consumable by AI models, MCPs, or other AI-powered tools, and collaborate with data/ML teams to integrate intelligent or adaptive UI behaviours.
• Build and maintain scalable, reusable UI components aligned with design tokens and system architecture, ensuring consistency between design artifacts (e.g., Figma) and production code.
• Contribute to system documentation, usage guidelines, and governance models, and partner with engineering to ensure performant, accessible implementations.
• Enable and empower feature teams to collaborate and contribute on design system enhancements.
• Develop internal tools, scripts, plugins, or pipelines to improve efficiency across design and engineering, and optimise design-to-code workflows using automation and AI augmentation.
• Contribute to experimentation frameworks that enable rapid testing of new ideas.
• Ensure pixel accuracy, responsiveness, and performance across UI implementations, and champion accessibility (WCAG) and inclusive design practices.
• Advocate for responsible AI usage, including transparency, bias mitigation, and user trust, and 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.
• 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.

• Enterprise, platforms and/or internal tools experience preferred.

• Health insurance coverage.
• Employee wellness program.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Paid holidays and sick time and vacation.