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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.
As a Senior Design Technologist, Design Systems , you are a member of the world-class CNN Digital Product Design Team, which is responsible for creating industry-leading new experiences consumed by millions of audiences across the globe. You are both a builder and a systems thinker, someone who not only built and maintained design systems, but also understands how to apply AI across design and development processes (e.g., token generation, component scaffolding, content generation, and workflow automation).
The Vossi Design System team is responsible for building and maintaining CNN’s multi-platform design system . This is an incredible opportunity t o envision and implement a world-class, scalable design system.
The S enior Design Technologist is a talented designer & design engineer who enjoys collaborating with product, engineering, research, editorial, analytics, content strategy and other designers to build and grow reusable librar ies that supports speed and innovation towards a stellar end user experience. In this role, you will have the opportunity to impact the entirety of CNN’s digital experience, and at the same time impact CNN’s bottom line.
Your Role Accountabilities...
AI Integration in Design Workflows
Bridge Design, Engineering, and AI
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, 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 artifact s 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
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 and contribute on design system enhancements
Tooling & Workflow Innovation
Develop internal tools,…