Senior Associate, Senior Creative Technologist - Frontend UI Engineer - Design Systems

Job Description

Requisition ID

94968

Department

Experience & Digital Marketing

Job Function

Experience & Digital Marketing

Location

New York,New York,United States

Role Location Designation

Hybrid - 2 days per week

Job Requisition ID: 94968

Location Designation: Hybrid - 2 days per week

Job Title: Senior Creative Technologist - Frontend UI Engineer - Design Systems (PF4)

Marketing - Digital & Performance Marketing - (Hybrid – 2 days per week)

It is an exciting time to join New York Life Insurance Company as we continue to innovate our technology and build the next generation of digital experiences for our customers. We are a Fortune 100 company and the largest mutual life insurance company in the U.S. We invest in our people and provide the support needed to grow and advance their careers.

We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced Frontend UI Engineer to join our MADI Design System team. In this role, you will play a critical part in building, scaling, and maintaining a React-based component library that is tightly aligned with our Figma design system. You will partner closely with design, product, and engineering teams to ensure seamless integration between design and code, enabling consistency, efficiency, and scalability across enterprise digital platforms.

This role requires someone who can hit the ground running—bringing both hands-on engineering expertise and strategic thinking to help evolve our design-to-code workflows, modernize our tooling, and confidently recommend forward-looking solutions, including the responsible use of AI in the design and development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

Design System Engineering

• Build and maintain a scalable, production-ready React component library aligned with Figma design system

• Establish and enforce best practices for component architecture, reusability, and performance

• Ensure tight synchronization between design tokens, components, and coded implementations

• Contribute to documentation, usage guidelines, and developer onboarding materials

Design-to-Code Workflow Optimization

• Optimize the end-to-end design and engineering workflow, improving handoff, collaboration, and system adoption

• Evaluate and implement tools and processes that streamline design-to-development alignment (e.g., tokens, automation, CI/CD integration)

• Identify opportunities to reduce friction and increase velocity across product teams

Collaboration & Enablement

• Partner with cross-functional teams (designers, engineers, product managers) to integrate the design system into product development workflows

• Act as a key interface between the design system team and broader engineering teams

• Support adoption of the design system by providing guidance, code reviews, and technical consultation

AI & Innovation

• Stay current on emerging technologies, including AI-assisted design and development workflows

• Explore and implement AI-driven solutions to enhance design system scalability and engineering efficiency

• Partner with engineering teams to test and validate AI-generated outputs, ensuring appropriate rigor, quality, and maintainability

• Help define standards and guardrails for incorporating AI into the design system ecosystem

Enterprise Scale & Platform Integration

• Support multi-platform environments and integrations across various CMS platforms and applications

• Ensure compatibility and consistency across web applications leveraging React as a core framework

• Contribute to governance models that support enterprise-wide adoption of the design system

Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Work Experiences

• 6–10+ years of frontend engineering experience, with a strong focus on UI development

• Proven experience working on or contributing to enterprise-scale design systems

• Experience building and maintaining React component libraries in production environments

• Experience working within organizations supporting multiple platforms, products, and CMS ecosystems

Technical Expertise

• Expert-level proficiency in React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS

• Strong understanding of design tokens, theming, and scalable component architecture

• Experience integrating design systems with Figma and modern handoff workflows

• Familiarit…