Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, CNN

The Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems, 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, which is responsible for creating industry-leading experiences consumed by millions of audiences across the globe, and within the Vossi Design System team, which builds and maintains CNN's multi-platform design system. The postholder is both a builder and a systems thinker, collaborating with product, engineering, research, editorial, analytics, content strategy and other designers to build and grow reusable libraries that support speed and innovation towards a stellar end-user experience.

• Integrate AI into design system workflows, including generating and maintaining design tokens such as colour, spacing and typography programmatically.
• Automate component creation, documentation and testing, and assist with layout generation, content population and variant exploration.
• Bridge design, engineering and AI, helping teams understand the feasibility, constraints and ethical considerations of AI-powered features.
• Ensure design system artefacts are consumable by AI models, MCPs and 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 artefacts such as 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 on and contribute to design system enhancements.
• Develop internal tools, scripts, plugins or pipelines to improve efficiency across design and engineering, optimise design-to-code workflows using automation and AI augmentation, and 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 for high-quality UX in AI-assisted or AI-generated interfaces, conducting 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, such as generative AI, LLMs and 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.

• Health insurance coverage.
• Employee wellness program.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Paid holidays and sick time and vacation.
• Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives and program-specific awards.