UX Designer – Prime Design Systems , Worldwide Prime UX
📍 Job Overview
Job Title: UX Designer – Prime Design Systems, Worldwide Prime UX
Company: Amazon
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Job Type: Full-time
Category: UX Design / Design Systems
Date Posted: July 30, 2026
Experience Level: 3+ Years
Remote Status: On-site
🚀 Role Summary
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Drive the evolution and maintenance of the Prime Design Library (PDL), a critical component of Amazon's global Prime customer experiences.
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Act as a builder and maintainer of reusable design components, ensuring consistency, quality, and scalability across all Prime digital products.
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Collaborate closely with UX designers, front-end engineers, and product teams to translate design intent into functional, well-documented components.
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Bridge the gap between visual design craft and systematic thinking, focusing on design tooling, component architecture, and engineering partnerships.
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Leverage AI fluency to explore and implement agentic design workflows, enhancing efficiency and innovation in the design process.
📝 Enhancement Note: While the role is titled "UX Designer," the core responsibilities and required skills point heavily towards a specialized Design Systems role, emphasizing technical design, component architecture, and AI-driven design tooling. This is not a typical UX researcher or generalist UX designer position.
📈 Primary Responsibilities
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Design Systems Development & Maintenance: Lead the creation, organization, documentation, and quality assurance of reusable design components within the Prime Design Library (PDL).
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Component Architecture & Implementation: Partner with Engineering teams to ensure component builds align with machine-readable contracts and maintain production-readiness, acting as the primary design point of contact for component implementations.
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Design Compliance & Quality Assurance: Review the work of other designers for PDL and semantic compliance, ensuring adherence to established design standards and best practices.
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System Thinking & AI Advocacy: Champion system thinking and AI scalability across the organization, educating stakeholders and driving adoption of advanced design methodologies.
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Cross-Functional Collaboration & Guidance: Run regular sync cadences with partner teams, guide WW Prime UX designers on effective design system usage, and foster a collaborative environment for design system adoption.
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Design Tooling & Workflow Innovation: Build and iterate on design tooling, including plugins and linters, and actively support the exploration of agentic design workflows.
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Documentation & Best Practices: Develop comprehensive documentation for design components, usage guidelines, and best practices to empower product teams.
📝 Enhancement Note: The emphasis on "machine-readable contract," "production-readiness in partnership with engineering," and "comfort with code environments" suggests a role that requires a deep understanding of how design systems translate into code and the technical considerations involved in their implementation at scale.
🎓 Skills & Qualifications
Education: While no specific degree is listed, a Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or a related field is generally expected for this experience level in a company like Amazon.
Experience: Minimum of 3 years of professional design experience, with a significant portion dedicated to design systems and complex digital product development.
Required Skills:
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Design Systems Expertise: Proven experience creating, organizing, and documenting reusable design components for multi-product or multi-platform use.
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AI Fluency: Proficiency in AI design tools, including advanced features such as variants, auto-layout, component properties, and design tokens. Hands-on experience with AI-assisted design workflows.
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User-Centered Design: Demonstrated ability to create great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns across desktop and mobile devices, supported by a strong portfolio.
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Technical Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to diverse audiences, including executives
Application Requirements
Candidates must have 3+ years of design experience with a strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end user-centered solutions. Proficiency in AI design tools, component architecture, and responsive design principles is required.