Senior Design Technologist – Web UX & Design System Lead

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon seeks a role at the intersection of product design and front-end engineering to own the UX web flow strategy and universal design system powering advertiser discovery and action. You’ll shape UX strategy, own the design system end-to-end, and remove handoff bottlenecks between design and engineering.

You will produce production-grade front-end code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React), govern WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility, and drive design fidelity at scale across 20+ marketplaces and 23 languages.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience.
• Have an available online portfolio.
• Have coding samples in front end programming languages.
• Experience developing visually polished, engaging, and highly fluid UX prototypes.
• Experience collaborating with UX, Product, and technical partners.
• Experience reviewing user research and data to build a strategic and user-friendly design.

Responsibilities

• Own UX web flow strategy for advertising.amazon.com and Amazon Ads Academy. Define how users navigate across content types, map decision paths, and design page structures that convert.
• Architect and govern the universal design system for AEM. Define every component’s interaction patterns, responsive behaviors, accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA), and usage guidelines so authoring teams can compose pages without breaking consistency.
• Apply a product design lens to AEM components. Treat each component as a product: define the user problem it solves, set success metrics, prototype variants, and iterate based on real data.
• Compress design-to-production timelines. Build production-grade front-end code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React) that engineering teams adopt directly. Eliminate handoff bottlenecks through tooling, automation, and reference implementations.
• Design for dual audiences (human + machine). Structure pages so they serve advertiser engagement and AI/LLM discoverability simultaneously, applying structured data, semantic hierarchy, and GEO principles.
• Lead cross-team design quality. Review vendor partner work, drive consensus on experience trade-offs, and influence engineering architecture to preserve design fidelity at scale.
• Mentor and raise the bar. Define prototyping workflows, standards, and best practices. Coach designers and technologists. Build mechanisms that make the whole team faster.

Skills

Front-end experience

Portfolio

Coding samples

UX prototyping

Cross-functional collaboration

React

Tools

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

React

Job description

Amazon seeks a role at the intersection of product design and front-end engineering to own the UX web flow strategy and universal design system powering advertiser discovery and action. You’ll shape UX strategy, own the design system end-to-end, and remove handoff bottlenecks between design and engineering.

You will produce production-grade front-end code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React), govern WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility, and drive design fidelity at scale across 20+ marketplaces and 23 languages.