Design Systems Designer, Amazon Health

Socket.dev; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's AHS Design Systems team in Boston is seeking a Design Systems Designer to craft scalable UI patterns, tokens, and AI-enabled experiences within the design system. You will work with front-end engineers to ensure aligned implementations and contribute to robust documentation.

You will define visual tokens, explore AI tooling to accelerate workflows, and collaborate with design and tech teams across Seattle, San Francisco, and Boston.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of design experience.
• Available online portfolio.
• Experience building or maintaining design systems or component libraries.
• Understanding of how design decisions translate to code.
• Strong eye for typography, color, spacing and visual hierarchy.
• Active use of AI tools to accelerate design systems work.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable UI components, patterns, and guidelines within the AHS design system.
• Define and evolve visual tokens (color, typography, spacing, elevation, motion) for consistency across products.
• Audit surfaces for system adherence and identify opportunities for new or improved patterns.
• Create detailed component specs including states, responsive behavior, accessibility requirements, and usage guidance.
• Define and document design patterns for AI-driven experiences within the system.
• Collaborate with front-end engineers to ensure coded components match design intent.
• Identify and implement AI-powered workflows that accelerate design systems operations.
• Contribute to design system documentation to aid adoption and contribution.
• Participate in design critiques and system reviews with a systematic mindset.

Skills

Design systems

Typography

AI tools

Collaboration

Design-to-code

Figma

Accessibility

Tools

Figma

Job description

Key job responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable UI components, patterns, and guidelines within the AHS design system
• Define and evolve visual tokens (color, typography, spacing, elevation, motion) that ensure consistency across products
• Audit product surfaces for system adherence and identify opportunities for new or improved patterns
• Create detailed component specs including states, responsive behavior, accessibility requirements, and usage guidance
• Define and document design patterns for AI-driven experiences (generative UI, conversational interfaces, AI-assisted workflows) within the system
• Collaborate with front-end engineers to ensure coded components match design intent
• Identify and implement AI-powered workflows that accelerate design systems operations — variant generation, automated specs, documentation, and design-to-code handoff
• Contribute to design system documentation, making it easy for other designers to adopt and contribute
• Participate in design critiques and system reviews, providing feedback grounded in systematic thinking

A day in the life

As a Design Systems Designer at AHS, you might start your morning using AI tooling to generate component variant explorations that would have taken hours manually — then refining the best options with your craft eye. After standup with the systems team, you'll spend focused time in Figma evolving a component's visual states, leveraging AI-assisted prototyping to test responsive behavior across breakpoints. In the afternoon you'll partner with an engineer to review a coded implementation against your spec — possibly using a design-to-code pipeline to bridge the gap — then collaborate with design and tech teams to define patterns for a new UI surface. You'll contribute to automated documentation workflows and end the day exploring visual directions for an upcoming token update — balancing craft with systematic rigor and a bias toward experimentation.

About the team

You'll join the AHS Design Systems team within the Amazon Health Services organization — a small, focused group building the foundational layer that enables all of our product designers to do their best work. We're actively integrating AI into our own workflows — from component generation to documentation to code handoff — and we want people who are excited to push that forward. You'll work alongside teammates in Seattle, San Francisco, and Boston, partnering closely with product designers, front-end engineers, and accessibility specialists. We value craft, experimentation, and supporting each other's growth.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of design experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• Experience working in a collaborative team environment to deliver high-quality design solutions
• Portfolio demonstrating strong visual design skills and systematic design thinking — showing how individual components connect to a larger system
• Experience building and maintaining design systems, pattern libraries, or component libraries
• Understanding of how design decisions translate to code
• Strong eye for typography, color, spacing, and visual hierarchy
• Active use of or strong curiosity about AI tools to accelerate design systems work — component generation, variant exploration, automated documentation, design-to-code pipelines

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of mobile and web design patterns and accessibility standards
• Experience with motion design
• Experience building or contributing to a production design system used by multiple product teams
• Experience designing patterns for AI/ML interfaces — generative UI, conversational experiences, or AI-assisted workflows
• Familiarity with AI tooling for design workflows (generative AI for exploration, prototyping automation, design-to-code pipelines)

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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, CA, San Francisco - 129,600.00 - 176,000.00 USD annually

USA, MA, Boston - 117,800.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually