UX Designer – Prime Design Systems , Worldwide Prime UX

Amazon is hiring a UX Designer – Prime Design Systems , Worldwide Prime UX in Seattle, United States. It pays $118k-$160k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
The posting mentions Figma, design systems and ux design among its tools and skills.
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Drive the evolution of the Prime Design Library with a focus on component architecture and agentic design workflows.

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The Amazon Prime UX Design team is at the heart of the Prime membership. We innovate and design on behalf of our customers and are relentlessly focused on improving the membership experience to delight hundreds of millions of customers around the globe. We are seeking an AI-fluent UX Designer to join our Design Systems team and drive the day-to-day evolution of the Prime Design Library (PDL). In this role, you will be a builder and maintainer of our component library, ensuring consistency, quality, and scalability across all Prime customer experiences. You will partner closely with UX designers, front-end engineers, and product teams to translate design intent into well-structured, reusable components that power Prime globally. This is a hands-on, technically curious design role. You will bridge the gap between visual design craft and systematic thinking, working at the intersection of design tooling, component architecture, and engineering collaboration. The ideal candidate is passionate about bringing order to complexity, loves the details of how components are named, layered, and configured, and is excited about emerging agentic design workflows. AI fluency and hands-on experience developing and maintaining design systems are critical.

Key job responsibilities
- Design Systems building and maintaining design systems, shared library of reusable components that all product teams draw from
- Help evolve the Prime Design Library (PDL) design system, particularly with component creation, maintenance, documentation, and quality standards

- Align builds to machine-readable contract and maintain production-readiness in partnership with engineering

- Review other designers’ work for PDL and semantic compliance

- Advocate for system thinking and AI scalability across the organization

- Run sync cadences with partner teams and guide WW Prime UX designers on design system usage

- Along with our Design Technologist, partner with Engineering teams as the design point of contact for component implementations

- Build and iterate on design tooling (plugins, linters) and support agentic design workflow exploration

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of design experience
- Have an online portfolio or samples of work on resume, demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns, across desktop and mobile devices
- Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
- AI fluent - proficiency in AI design tools, including advanced features such as variants, auto-layout, component properties, and design tokens
- Experience creating, organizing, and documenting reusable design components for multi-product or multi-platform use
- Strong understanding of responsive design principles, accessibility standards, and platform conventions

Preferred qualifications

- Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
- Experience working with time-tracking/resource management tools
- Experience building or contributing to a design system at scale (multi-team, multi-market)
- Familiarity with design token workflows, metadata schemas, and design-to-code pipelines
- Comfort with code environments: ability to use an IDE or CLI to build plugins, scripts, or automation tools
- Exposure to AI-assisted design workflows or agentic tooling

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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, WA, Seattle - 117,800.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

How we rate this

UX Designer – Prime Design Systems , Worldwide Prime UX at Amazon rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

UX Designer – Prime Design Systems , Worldwide Prime UX is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $118k-$160k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on July 30, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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