Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer

Cigna

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Tennessee
Salary
$138,300–$230,500 / yr
Posted
8 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago
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

Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer will join the team to build Verity Canvas, a code-canonical design system for healthcare software. This role sits at the intersection of Figma, React, accessibility, and production code as the organization migrates from Angular to React. You will own the component library, manage the design token pipeline using Style Dictionary and DTCG formats, and establish Code Connect mappings to ensure accurate generation by coding agents. Key responsibilities include maintaining a versioned package built on accessible headless primitives, enforcing CI quality gates for accessibility and visual regression, and managing release discipline through Changesets and semver. Required skills include React, TypeScript, Figma Dev Mode, Storybook, and advanced accessibility expertise including ARIA. You will solve the challenge of ensuring consistent, scalable UI components in a regulated healthcare environment where precision is essential.

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 workflows using Figma Variables and Code Connect to ensure alignment between design and production code.
  • 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, adoption, and deprecation workflows for design systems across 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 for other teams.
  • Hands-on experience with Figma Dev Mode, variables, Code Connect, or similar design-to-code workflows.
  • Experience building design token pipelines using DTCG formats and tools like 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.
  • Preferred experience with headless primitive libraries such as Base UI, Radix, React Aria, or Ariakit.
  • Preferred experience with pnpm workspaces, Turborepo, Changesets, semver, API Extractor, or type-aware codemods.

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