Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer

Cigna

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Work type
Remote
Location
Tennessee
Salary
$138,300–$230,500 / yr
Posted
8 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Sep 21, 2026

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Similar $203k
This role $184k
$124k most similar roles pay here $275k

This role pays less than 64% of similar roles. Most pay $168,312–$236,812 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $184k versus about $203k for comparable roles.

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About Cigna

The Cigna Group is a global health company, rebranded in 2023, that serves over 185 million customer relationships across 30+ countries.

Cigna currently has 40 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $138,601–$204,700 across 22 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer

As a Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer, you will join the Verity team to build Verity Canvas, a code-canonical design system for healthcare software. You will manage the @verity/ui component library as a versioned package while maintaining the @verity/tokens pipeline using DTCG formats and Style Dictionary. Your daily work involves aligning Figma libraries with production code, creating code-to-Figma token workflows, and authoring Code Connect mappings to ensure coding agents generate accurate components. You will utilize React, TypeScript, Storybook, and headless primitives like Radix or React Aria to build accessible UI. Key responsibilities include managing release discipline through Changesets, enforcing CI quality gates for accessibility, and defining AI-ready system surfaces. This role solves the challenge of maintaining consistent, scalable, and high-precision interfaces within a complex healthcare software environment during a migration from Angular to React.

What you'll do

  • Own and maintain the @verity/ui component library as a versioned package built on accessible headless primitives.
  • Build and maintain the design token pipeline using DTCG formats, Style Dictionary, and CSS custom properties.
  • Create code-to-Figma token workflows to ensure alignment between Figma Variables and production code.
  • Author Code Connect mappings so Figma Dev Mode and coding agents generate specific @verity/ui components.
  • Define AI-ready system surfaces including MCP context, component manifests, and agent evaluation workflows.
  • Strengthen CI quality gates for accessibility, visual regression, linting, and automated testing.
  • Manage release discipline through Changesets, semantic versioning, and migration-ready codemods.
  • Establish governance, promotion, and deprecation workflows in partnership with designers and product teams.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum 5+ years of experience building front-end systems, design systems, or component libraries with React and TypeScript.
  • Experience designing typed component APIs and shipping a design system as a published package used by other teams.
  • Hands-on experience with Figma Dev Mode, variables, and Code Connect, or similar design-to-code workflows.
  • Experience building design token pipelines using DTCG formats and tools such as Style Dictionary or Tokens Studio.
  • Strong accessibility expertise, including ARIA, keyboard interaction, focus management, and automated checks like axe.
  • Experience with Storybook, visual regression testing, CI/CD, modern Git workflows, and package management in monorepos.
  • Experience with Base UI, Radix, React Aria, Ariakit, or similar headless primitive libraries (preferred).
  • Experience with pnpm workspaces, Turborepo, Changesets, semver, API Extractor, or type-aware codemods (preferred).

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