Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, CNN
Core
Senior Design Technologist building and maintaining CNN's multi-platform design system while integrating AI to augment design workflows and generate scalable UI components.
Role type
Senior IC design technologist (design systems & AI integration)
Builds
Scalable, reusable UI components and design system artifacts for CNN's digital experiences
Domain
Media & Entertainment / Design Systems / Generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Design system architecture, front-end development (HTML/CSS/JS), Figma expert, AI integration in workflows, design tokens, component libraries, accessibility (WCAG), prompt design, API-based AI integrations
Preferred skills
Enterprise platforms experience, internal tools development, experimentation frameworks, bias mitigation in AI
Technologies
Figma, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Cursor, Claude, LLMs, generative AI
Responsibilities
Generate or maintain design tokens programmatically, automate component creation and documentation, ensure design system artifacts are consumable by AI models, build scalable UI components aligned with design tokens, develop internal tools to optimize design-to-code workflows, audit UI quality and AI-assisted outputs
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC