Cigna is hiring a founding Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer to build Verity Canvas, a code-canonical design system for healthcare software. The role sits at the intersection of Figma, React, accessibility, and production code, owning the alignment between codebase and design library as the team migrates from Angular to React.
What you'll do
- Own the @verity/ui component library as a versioned package built on accessible headless primitives
- Build and maintain the @verity/tokens pipeline from DTCG tokens through Style Dictionary and typed output
- Create a code-to-Figma token workflow using Figma Variables, staging files, and review practices
- Author Code Connect mappings so Figma Dev Mode and coding agents generate real components
- Define the AI-ready system surface, including MCP context, manifests, registries, and agent evaluation workflows
- Strengthen CI quality gates for accessibility, visual regression, app-level regression, linting, and code ownership
- Manage release discipline through Changesets, semantic versioning, API contract checks, and codemods
- Partner with designers and product teams on Figma conventions, adoption, governance, and deprecation workflows
What we're looking for
- 5+ years building front-end systems, design systems, or component libraries with React and TypeScript
- Experience designing typed component APIs and shipping a published design system package
- Hands-on experience with Figma Dev Mode, variables, and Code Connect or similar 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, Git workflows, and monorepo package management
Nice to have
- Experience with Base UI, Radix, React Aria, Ariakit, or similar headless primitive libraries
- Experience with pnpm workspaces, Turborepo, Changesets, semver, API Extractor, or type-aware codemods
- Experience with AI-native development workflows, MCP tooling, coding agents, registries, or evaluation harnesses
- Experience pushing tokens from code into Figma or working with the Figma Variables REST API
- Experience in healthcare, regulated environments, or accessibility-critical products
Good to know
- Home internet must be cable broadband or fibre with at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload