Design Systems Lead for AI-Driven Front Ends

Amazon Web Services (AWS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 219,100 - 296,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a builder-leader to own an agent-first design system end-to-end. You will lead PMs, SDEs, MLEs, and front‑end engineers, partnering with AAIS UX Design to shape a human‑AI interaction focus. The role demands strong communication, product leadership, and research-grounded decisions.

The position emphasizes adoption, governance, and long‑lead investments in UI agents and multimodal experiences, and offers a path to scale across multiple product teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years of technical product management experience.
• 5+ years of people management experience with direct responsibility for hiring, performance management, and team development.
• Deep expertise in design systems, front-end engineering, or developer experience platforms.
• Track record of shipping developer-facing SDKs, component libraries, or platform products used by multiple teams.
• Strong technical fluency — able to make architecture decisions, review code, and engage deeply with engineers and designers on implementation tradeoffs.
• A strong sense of craft and taste, and a desire to raise the bar — willing to invest more effort now for work that scales better later.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap. Define what the design system builds next based on portfolio needs, customer feedback, and design research.
• Design the best, for the most, for the least. Do the best work for the most customers for the least specialized effort.
• Balance velocity with room to explore. Be a force for the team's momentum, and plan deliberately for exploration where it counts.
• Lead the "Own It. Ship It. Together." collaboration model with paired engineer+designer from day one.
• Drive platform adoption without mandates. Release incrementally, validate with research, generalize proven solutions, and support engineering teams.
• Steward the shared design system partnership. Own the integration layer and the shared AWS design system adoption.
• Shape the long‑lead investments that support builders (agents that compose UI, MCP‑based integration, multimodal).
• Partner with the design leader to hire, steer, and develop the team.

Skills

Design systems

Front-end engineering

Developer experience platforms

Architecture decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Tools

React ecosystem

Figma design tooling

Design token pipelines

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a builder-leader to own an agent-first design system end-to-end. You will lead PMs, SDEs, MLEs, and front‑end engineers, partnering with AAIS UX Design to shape a human‑AI interaction focus. The role demands strong communication, product leadership, and research-grounded decisions.

The position emphasizes adoption, governance, and long‑lead investments in UI agents and multimodal experiences, and offers a path to scale across multiple product teams.