UX Designer, Design Systems & Visual Design

UX Designer, Design Systems & Visual Design on Amazon Autos focuses on evolving a scalable design system and delivering consistent, premium visual experiences across customer and dealer touchpoints.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Amazon Autos design system across web and mobile by defining, documenting, and maintaining reusable components, patterns, tokens, and guidelines.
• Use AI-powered tools to suggest, audit, and optimize design token structures across themes and platforms.
• Produce high-fidelity UI designs with detailed attention to typography, color, spacing, iconography, motion, and layout for cohesive brand presentation.
• Design design system components for AI-powered experiences and natural language-to-UI interfaces that generate UI from system components.
• Design, specify, and document new components and patterns; partner with engineering for accurate implementation and accessibility compliance.
• Integrate AI tools to generate and maintain component documentation, usage guidelines, and changelogs at scale.
• Collaborate with engineers, UX designers, researchers, product managers, and content designers to turn business and customer needs into systematic design solutions.
• Audit existing experiences for visual and interaction inconsistencies and drive improvements that raise overall product quality.
• Define governance rules between AI-generated layouts and human-validated reviews to maintain brand alignment as AI workflows scale.
• Share best practices, conduct design reviews, and mentor peers on systems thinking and visual craft.
• Contribute to team rituals, critiques, and knowledge sharing.
• Create interactive prototypes and design narratives to communicate ideas, align stakeholders, and validate concepts.
• Use prompt-driven prototyping and generative AI to explore design directions within system constraints.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience in UX/UI design focused on design systems and/or visual design.
• Portfolio showing visual design craft, systematic thinking, and end-to-end product design work.
• Proficiency with modern design tools such as Figma, including component libraries, auto-layout, variables/tokens, and prototyping.
• Experience building, scaling, or contributing to a design system (component libraries, style guides, pattern documentation).
• Familiarity with AI-assisted design workflows, including prompt-driven prototyping, generative design exploration, or AI-powered design-to-code tools.
• Strong knowledge of responsive design, accessibility standards (WCAG), and platform conventions (web, iOS, Android).
• Ability to explain design rationale and influence cross-functional partners.

Technologies

• Figma, Figma Dev Mode, Kiro, Claude
• After Effects, Principle
• HTML, CSS, React
• iOS, Android
• WCAG

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 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
• Parental leave

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on consumer-facing products at scale (e-commerce, marketplace, or automotive).
• Familiarity with motion design principles and tools (e.g., After Effects, Principle, Figma prototyping).
• Experience with design token architecture and handoff workflows with front-end engineering, including AI-powered token management and optimization.
• Understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React) sufficient to collaborate with developers.
• Experience writing structured, machine-readable design documentation (e.g., DESIGN.md) optimized for consumption by LLM agents and automated tooling.
• Experience conducting or integrating usability research findings into design system decisions.
• Experience using AI-powered design-to-code tools (e.g., Figma Dev Mode, Kiro, Claude, or similar) to streamline handoff and accelerate front-end implementation.
• Experience designing natural language-to-UI systems where users describe interfaces and components are generated programmatically.
• Experience internationalizing design systems, including support for RTL languages, locale-specific typography, spacing adaptations, and culturally responsive UI patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to balance long-term systems thinking with near-term delivery in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience collaborating directly with developers for implementation.
• Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards.
• Experience with AI/ML technologies.

A Day in the Life

• Work alongside Product and Tech teams to improve how customers discover and purchase vehicles online.
• Transform complex journeys into seamless experiences, define best-in-class experiences, and conduct research that supports industry-leading solutions.
• Design the next generation of car buying experiences.

About the Team

• Part of a new line of business focused on innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon.
• Collaborates with other experienced Amazon teams to shape how customers research and shop for cars and how dealerships sell cars online.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of design experience.
• 3+ years delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer.
• Available online portfolio.
• Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or similar.