UX Designer, Design Systems & Visual Design

Amazon Autos is seeking a UX Designer with deep expertise in Design Systems and Visual Design to evolve a scalable system across web and mobile.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Amazon Autos design system, including reusable components, patterns, tokens, and guidelines for web and mobile experiences
• Use AI-powered tools to suggest, audit, and optimize design token structures across themes and platforms
• Produce high-fidelity UI designs with careful attention to typography, color, spacing, iconography, motion, and layout for a cohesive brand experience
• 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 to support 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 translate business and customer needs into systematic design solutions
• Audit existing experiences for visual and interaction inconsistencies, then propose and drive improvements to raise overall product quality
• Define governance rules between AI-generated layouts and human-validated reviews to keep brand alignment current with AI-accelerated workflows
• Share best practices, lead design reviews, and mentor peers on systems thinking and visual craft through rituals, critiques, and knowledge sharing
• Create interactive prototypes and design narratives to communicate ideas, align stakeholders, and validate concepts with customers
• Use prompt-driven prototyping and generative AI to explore design directions within design system constraints

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience in UX/UI design with a focus on design systems and/or visual design
• Portfolio demonstrating visual design craft, systematic thinking, and end-to-end product design work
• Proficiency with modern design tools (e.g., Figma), including component libraries, auto-layout, variables/tokens, and prototyping
• Experience building, scaling, or contributing to a design system (component libraries, style guides, and pattern documentation)
• Familiarity with AI-assisted design workflows, including prompt-driven prototyping, generative design exploration, or AI-powered design-to-code tools
• Strong understanding 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, auto-layout, variables/tokens, component libraries
• WCAG
• iOS, Android
• HTML, CSS, React
• After Effects, Principle
• Kiro, Claude
• DESIGN.md
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• prompt-driven prototyping, generative AI
• natural language-to-UI

Benefits

• Sign-on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance: medical, dental, vision, prescription; Basic Life & AD&D insurance; 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 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 effectively 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 interfaces are generated programmatically from user descriptions
• 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

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

A Day in the Life

• Work with Product and Tech teams to change how customers discover and purchase vehicles online
• Turn complex journeys into seamless experiences; define best-in-class journeys, create UI, and conduct research that drives industry-leading solutions

About the Team

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

Location: Arlington, VA (onsite)

Compensation: USD 117,800 - 160,000 per year