Product Designer, Design Systems, Amazon Music

Amazon Music's Design Systems team builds the Figma libraries, design tokens, icons, and components used across iOS, Android, and web. The role is for a Product Designer to help build and evolve that foundation. The posting states the ideal candidate cares about craft and consistency, enjoys making tools other designers depend on, and wants to see their work appear across the Amazon Music app; the team is a small group of designers and front-end engineers working across Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Mexico City.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain components in Figma libraries, including variants, component properties, auto layout, and variables, structured to translate cleanly into code.
• Publish updates, manage versioning and deprecation, and keep library files organized and consistent.
• Produce component specifications and development-ready handoff; partner with engineers through implementation and review.
• Design and expand the icon set on a consistent grid and keyline system; produce logos, app icons, and illustrations that fit the visual language.
• Help define and document an illustration style and usage guidance.
• Write documentation and usage guidance to help product designers and engineers use the system correctly.
• Partner with product designers to apply the system to real features, audit designs for system use, and identify gaps the system should fill.
• Review contribution requests from other designers and help decide what belongs in the system.

What they're looking for

• 2+ years of design experience
• Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or similar
• Experience working in a collaborative team environment to deliver high-quality design solutions
• Have an available online portfolio that includes design systems work, such as a component with its states and variants, or an icon set and how it was constructed
• Experience building components in Figma using variants, component properties, auto layout, and variables
• Experience contributing to or maintaining a published Figma library used by other designers
• Experience with design tokens and variable modes, such as light, dark, and brand themes
• Experience designing icon sets at scale, including grids, keylines, optical sizing, and consistency across a large set