
Lead Design Engineer
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Job overview
The HCD Lead Design Engineer III leads development and implementation of CareSource’s enterprise design language system across digital products. The role bridges design and engineering, builds system infrastructure and tooling, establishes best practices, mentors team members, and helps shape design and technology initiatives. It also collaborates across teams to define design patterns and advocates for user-centered design principles.
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Lead Design Engineer
remote type
Remote
locations
Remote
time type
Full time
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End Date: November 5, 2026
job requisition id
R14116
Job Summary:
The HCD Lead Design Engineer III is responsible for spearheading the development and implementation of our enterprise design language system, ensuring consistency, scalability, and innovation across all our digital products. They bridge the gap between design and engineering, translating creative concepts into functional, user-friendly interfaces. The role will be crucial in establishing best practices, mentoring team members, and driving the evolution of our design system to meet the ever-changing needs of our users and business.
Essential Functions:
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Lead the development and maintenance of our design language system, ensuring its scalable, accessible, and aligned with industry best practice
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Responsible for designing and building design system infrastructure like token systems and associated transformation tools or pipelines
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Design, build and maintain design system documentation and infrastructure for publishing the documentation
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Design, build and maintain design tool plugins or other custom tooling used by designers
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Building design system implementations (i.e. component libraries)
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement design patterns, components, and guidelines
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Stay abreast of emerging technologies and design trends, incorporating relevant advancements into our design system
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Advocate for user-centered design principles throughout the organization
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Contribute to the strategic direction of our design and technology initiatives through idea validation, rapid prototyping, UI code quality, and systems thinking
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Ability to co-define measures of success, test your assumptions and outcomes, and incorporate feedback
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Coordinate with other design team members to ensure consistent and accurate communication
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Perform any other job duties as requested
Education and Experience:
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Design, Computer Science, Business, a related field or equivalent years of relevant work experience is required
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Five (5) years of professional design engineering experience, developing complex or enterprise-level design language systems is required
Competencies, Knowledge and Skills:
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Knowledge of different technology solutions in the healthcare space; ability to learn new technology to support business direction and customer needs
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Expert in design thinking principles and design engineering
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Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
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Ability to influence cross-functional teams, set priorities, manage projects, deliver results based on requirements and goals
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Comfortable and confident interacting with business partners and senior/executive leadership
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Strong interpersonal skills and high level of professionalism
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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Knowledge of the healthcare and/or managed care ecosystem is a plus
Licensure and Certification:
- Design, User Experience Design, or development certification is strongly desired
Working Conditions:
- General office environment; may be required to sit or stand for extended periods of time
Compensation Range:
$113,000.00 - $197,700.00
CareSource takes into consideration a combination of a candidate’s education, training, and experience as well as the position’s scope and complexity, the discretion and latitude required for the role, and other external and internal data when establishing a salary level. In addition to base compensation, you may qualify for a bonus tied to company and individual performance. We are highly invested in every employee’s total well-being and offer a substantial and comprehensive total rewards package.
Compensation Type (hourly/salary):
Salary
Organization Level Competencies
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Fostering a Collaborative Workplace Culture
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Cultivate Partnerships
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Develop Self and Others
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Drive Execution
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Influence Others
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Pursue Personal Excellence
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Understand the Business
This job description is not all inclusive. CareSource reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. CareSource is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to fostering an environment of belonging that welcomes and supports individuals of all backgrounds.
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About Us
The CareSource mission is known as our heartbeat. Just as we support our members to be the best version of themselves, our employees are driven by our mission to create a better world for members, stakeholders and providers.
We are difference-makers who combine compassionate hearts with our unique business expertise to make every opportunity count. Each claim, each phone call, each consumer-centric decision is a chance to change the world for one member, and our employees look for ways to do that every day.
The challenge is, there is no one right way to be the difference and we’re looking for people like you that will rewrite that definition every day. We do what it takes to form creative solutions that make our community and the world just a little better. Discover what it means to be #UniquelyCareSource.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,793 open Design Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$113–198K/yr
- US median$112–160K/yr1,794 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $155K, is 13% above the US median midpoint ($137K) — in the middle half of Design Engineer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,793 open Design Engineer jobs across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Kiewit248 open
- Sargent & Lundy143 open
- Amazon134 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Design Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,266 postings).
- Education
- 1,942 of the 2,793 open Design Engineer jobs (70%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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