UX Designer, Amazon
Design Systems & Visual Design, Amazon Autos
$129.6-176k
+ RSUs
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$129.6-176k
+ RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of professional experience in UX/UI design with a focus on design systems and/or visual design
- A portfolio demonstrating visual design craft, systematic thinking, and end-to-end product design work
- Proficiency in 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, 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 articulate design rationale and influence cross-functional partners
- 5+ years of design experience
- 3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or similar
Desirable
- 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 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 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 needs in a fast-paced environment
- Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
- Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
- Experience with AI/ML technologies
What the job involves
- Amazon Autos is reimagining the car-buying experience by bringing the trust, convenience, and customer obsession of Amazon to automotive retail
- We're building a seamless online-to-offline journey that helps customers research, finance, and purchase vehicles with confidence
- As we scale across OEMs, dealers, and metros, our design team plays a critical role in shaping a cohesive, world-class experience
- We are looking for a UX Designer with deep expertise in Design Systems and Visual Design to join the Amazon Autos team
- In this role, you will be responsible for evolving and maintaining our design system, ensuring visual consistency across all customer-facing and dealer-facing touchpoints, and raising the bar on craft and quality
- You will partner closely with product, engineering, research, UX and content teams to deliver polished, scalable design solutions that delight customers and drive business outcomes
- You will bring an AI-forward mindset to how the system is built, documented, and governed: using AI tools to accelerate component development, improve documentation quality, and explore how generative and agentic capabilities can make the design system smarter over time
- Design System Stewardship: Own and evolve the Amazon Autos design system—defining, documenting, and maintaining reusable components, patterns, tokens, and guidelines that scale across web and mobile experiences
- Leverage AI-powered tools to suggest, audit, and optimize design token structures across themes and platforms
- Visual Design Excellence: Craft high-fidelity UI designs with meticulous attention to typography, color, spacing, iconography, motion, and layout to ensure a premium, cohesive brand experience
- AI-Native UI Patterns: Design system components specifically for AI-powered experiences and natural language-to-UI interfaces where users or internal teams can describe a UI and have it generated from system components
- Component Design & Documentation: Design, spec, and document new components and patterns; partner with engineering to ensure accurate implementation and accessibility compliance
- Integrate AI tools to generate and maintain component documentation, usage guidelines, and changelogs to keep the system current at scale
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, UX designers, researchers, product managers, and content designers to translate business and customer needs into elegant, systematic design solutions
- Consistency, Quality & Governance: Audit existing experiences for visual and interaction inconsistencies; propose and drive improvements that elevate the overall product quality
- Establish rules between AI-generated layouts and human-validated reviews to secure brand alignment, ensuring design system governance keeps pace with AI-accelerated workflows
- Contribution to Broader Design Culture: Share best practices, conduct design reviews, and mentor peers on systems thinking and visual craft
- Contribute to team rituals, critiques, and knowledge sharing
- Prototyping & Storytelling: Create interactive prototypes and compelling design narratives to communicate ideas, gain alignment, and validate concepts with stakeholders and customers
- Utilize prompt-driven prototyping and generative AI to rapidly explore design directions within system constraints
- Work alongside innovative Product and Tech teams to revolutionize how customers discover and purchase vehicles online
- You'll transform complex journeys into seamless experiences, define best-in-class experiences that push boundaries, create stunning UI, and conduct research that drives industry-leading solutions
- Join us in designing the next generation of car buying
- This role is with a new line of business with a vision to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon
- We’re collaborating with other experienced teams at Amazon to define the future of how customers research and shop for cars and how dealerships sell cars online
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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