Lead Design Engineer

CareSource • Dayton, OH

3d • $113,000 - $197,700

About The Position

The HCD Lead Design Engineer III leads the development and implementation of CareSource’s enterprise design language system, helping ensure consistency, scalability, accessibility, and innovation across digital products. The role bridges design and engineering by translating creative concepts into functional, user-friendly interfaces. It also establishes best practices, mentors team members, and guides the design system’s evolution to address changing user and business needs.

The position involves creating and maintaining design-system infrastructure, including token systems, transformation tools and pipelines, documentation and publishing infrastructure, designer-facing plugins and custom tooling, and component-library implementations. The Lead Design Engineer collaborates across teams to define design patterns, components, and guidelines; advocates for user-centered design; and contributes to strategic design and technology initiatives through idea validation, rapid prototyping, UI code quality, and systems thinking. The role also includes defining measures of success, testing assumptions and outcomes, incorporating feedback, coordinating communication with design team members, and performing other duties as requested.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Design, Computer Science, Business, a related field, or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Five years of professional design engineering experience developing complex or enterprise-level design language systems.
• Expertise in design thinking principles and design engineering.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams, set priorities, manage projects, and deliver results based on requirements and goals.
• Comfort and confidence interacting with business partners and senior or executive leadership.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a high level of professionalism.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of technology solutions in the healthcare space, with the ability to learn new technology to support business direction and customer needs.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of the healthcare and/or managed care ecosystem.
• Design, User Experience Design, or development certification is strongly desired.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and maintenance of the design language system, ensuring it is scalable, accessible, and aligned with industry best practices.
• Design and build design-system infrastructure, including token systems and associated transformation tools or pipelines.
• Design, build, and maintain design-system documentation and the infrastructure used to publish it.
• Design, build, and maintain design-tool plugins and other custom tooling used by designers.
• Build design-system implementations, such as component libraries.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement design patterns, components, and guidelines.
• Monitor emerging technologies and design trends, incorporating relevant advancements into the design system.
• Advocate for user-centered design principles throughout the organization.
• Contribute to strategic design and technology initiatives through idea validation, rapid prototyping, UI code quality, and systems thinking.
• Co-define measures of success, test assumptions and outcomes, and incorporate feedback.
• Coordinate with other design team members to ensure consistent and accurate communication.
• Perform other job duties as requested.

Benefits

• Potential eligibility for a bonus tied to company and individual performance.
• A substantial and comprehensive total rewards package focused on employee well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior