Senior UX Designer, Design Systems, People Engagement Experience (PEX)

The People Engagement Experience (PEX) is the cord across our People Engagement (PE) experiences made up of forward-thinking UX designers, researchers and writers. PEX is revolutionizing the user experience for Amazonians across the globe. Our design work has a direct impact on the lives of millions of Amazonians, helping them achieve work-life balance and advance in their careers. We're also customer-obsessed, driving impact across the company by delivering on user-centered and business needs. We support Amazon's mission to become Earth's best employer through making it easier to acquire, train and retain employees.

As a Senior UX Designer on the employee-facing design systems team, you are responsible for leading design initiatives, including Figma component, pattern, and style libraries. You will work with designers and engineers across multiple organizations to create implementation strategies and timelines for the introduction of new components and standards. You will bring a scalable design approach to your work, and consider how to best deliver components, patterns, and templates that scale across products and platforms. You'll be focused on the design details, while also understanding the technical requirements to bridge the gap between product and engineering. You'll also drive how AI-powered design tools and intelligent systems can enhance design system workflows and component creation across the team. As a Senior UX Designer, you will drive strategy for the team, and partner with customers to impact products.

To succeed in this role, the candidate must be an innovative self-starter in driving operational excellence, enabling others, and working closely with engineering. The candidate must have proven the ability to succeed in a highly ambiguous, fast-paced environment. Our environment requires the skills to work collaboratively and the commitment to take ownership when needed.

Key job responsibilities
- Assume ownership for components, patterns, and templates for product experiences and features across desktop, native mobile and more, ensuring they are scalable and accessible.
- Work closely with designers and engineers to design and implement high-quality, scalable additions to the design system, including components that support AI-powered features.
- Collaborate with designers to identify opportunities for unifying designs across products.
- Create and maintain documentation describing the standards and best practices of our component library as a reference for designers, developers, and product.
- Define and champion how AI-powered design tools are adopted across the team to accelerate component creation and documentation while maintaining design quality.
- Model behavior that exemplifies Amazon Leadership Principles in their team. Raises the design bar for the organization.
- Implement and maintain processes for scaling, updating, and managing various parts of a design system.
- Provide coaching and feedback, with an emphasis on growing junior Independent Contributors and leadership capability.
- Dive deep with product managers, designers, and engineers from various domains, learning how they are serving customers.

A day in the life
A Design Systems UX Designer works with design and engineering closely on a day-to-day basis. While this designer independently owns the strategy and creation of new components, patterns, and layouts, they also collaborate with other UX designers across organizations on connecting individual features to a unified, holistic experience. UX Researchers and UX Writers support design in creating reusable experiences. The designer shares design work regularly with the immediate and customer teams, stakeholder review and leadership, and acts as a key member that brings the larger design community together.

About the team
We are a multidisciplinary team creating truly meaningful products and experiences that empower and connect millions of Amazon employees. Our team consists of designers, researchers and writers, and is very diverse in terms of educational background, race, skills, and location. We're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship, particularly as we pioneer AI-integrated workplace solutions.

Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of design experience
- Proficiency in Figma, including features like variants, auto-layout, component properties, and library management

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience leveraging AI-powered design tools to accelerate component creation and documentation
- Understanding of design system adoption strategies and how to support designers in using system components
- Experience building components that scale across web, iOS, Android, or other platforms
- Strong communication skills with ability to bridge design and engineering perspectives
- Experience building design systems for AI Agents and Humans to consume

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 137,800.00 - 186,400.00 USD annually