Amazon Devices is looking for a Design Systems Engineer to join Brand Studio. Brand Studio helps bring new device offerings to market-products, services, brands, and categories by creating a variety of digital assets that are used to engage and attract customers on Amazon.com and in Retail Stores. As a Senior Design Systems Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of our design system and revolutionizing the way our design team creates content.
We are looking for a Senior Design Systems Engineer to lead the development and evolution of our design system. The ideal candidate has a strong background in software engineering, user experience design, and is passionate about building systems that scale and drive efficiency. This role will collaborate with our design, engineering, and strategy teams to ensure that our design system is cohesive, consistent, and easy to use across all workflows.
You should be comfortable engaging entry-level through executive stakeholders, and working with many different types of creative professionals and creative outputs. The person in this role should possess excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Key job responsibilities
• Build Figma plugins and widgets to improve the design process and increase efficiency.
• Experience in implementing AI techniques in design systems and workflows.
• Ability to integrate AI and machine learning algorithms into design systems and production workflows.
• Experience in developing and deploying AI-powered plugins for Figma or other design tools.
• Work with the design team to integrate existing internal and 3rd party tools with Figma.
• Identify areas for improvement in production workflows and implement solutions to streamline processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the design system is integrated effectively across all products and services.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest design and technology trends to ensure our design system is innovative and cutting-edge.
• Lead the technical implementation of the design system including typography, color, and iconography and the tools, resources, templates and documentations to support the system.
• Present Design System to stakeholders, consider feedback, update as needed, and gain buy-in
• Report team and system progress regularly to key stakeholders
• Hold retrospectives to identify challenges, successes, and preferences to continuously improve design system
• Collaborate with the tech team to continuously improve current content creation tool
• Identify work that can be created by current content creation tool and collaborate with tech team to add features needed
• Maintain current content creation tool design templates and library
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 6+ years of front-end developer creating prototypes or wire-frames for enterprise web applications or workflows experience
– Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns.
– Experience (non-internship) in professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
– Have an available online portfolio
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Knowledge of databases and AWS database services: ElasticSearch, Redshift, DynamoDB
– Experience with machine learning (ML) tools and methods
– Experience developing visually polished, engaging, and highly fluid UX prototypes
– Experience collaborating with UX, Product, and technical partners
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $134,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.