Sr Manager, PMT-ES, Design Systems, AWS Applied AI Solutions

About the role

We are looking for a single-threaded leader to own an agent-first design system end-to-end: product vision, roadmap, engineering execution, adoption, and business outcomes. This is a builder-leader role. You will lead a team of PM, SDEs, MLEs, and front-end engineers, and partner closely with the AAIS UX Design organization — design and creative direction, and the design team itself, sit with the UX design leader; you own prioritization, delivery, and the business results.

The design system you will own rethinks how humans interact with AI. Rather than bolting conversational agents onto legacy interfaces, it places the human-AI relationship at the center of the design. It is built on the philosophy, called humorphism, that if people are going to work alongside AI teammates the way they work with human teammates, the interaction layer should be designed around how people have collaborated in work settings for decades, not around how they've clicked through software.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap.
• Define what the design system builds next based on portfolio needs, customer feedback, and design research.
• Balance near-term adoption with long-term architectural bets.
• Design the best, for the most, for the least.
• Build coherence across the experience layer and a felt sense of product family, not siloed one-off features.
• Lead the "Own It. Ship It. Together." collaboration model.
• Drive platform adoption without mandates.
• Steward the shared design system partnership.
• Shape the long-lead investments that support builders.
• Partner with the design leader to hire, steer, and develop the team.
• Set and maintain a single quality bar.

Requirements

• 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, rather than always optimizing for speed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing a team of engineers and scientists.
• Experience building for AI/ML or agentic applications — understanding how LLM-driven interfaces differ from traditional UIs.
• Interest in, or experience with, how design systems adapt to vibe coding and agent-readable design systems.
• Genuine enthusiasm for design and visual culture — you care how a product feels to use, not just whether it works, and you can articulate why you prefer one well-made product over another.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a horizontal platform team serving multiple product consumers with competing priorities.
• Experience with the React ecosystem, Figma design tooling, and design token pipelines.
• Background in human-computer interaction, interaction design, or UX engineering.
• Familiarity with AWS services and the Cloudscape design system.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, highly ambiguous environment where the team is inventing new interaction paradigms for agentic AI.

What Success Looks Like

Design system adoption grows from 3 AAIS products to portfolio-wide coverage, with measurable reduction in per-team UX build cost. The design system's full offering is available to the Connect family at 65% or more through the shared design system — and key workflows are unlocked. The experimental innovation track is established, with early AI-native prototypes and a scoped set of long-lead builder investments (composing agents, MCPs, multimodal). Team health and retention remain strong through a smooth transition from the current interim structure. Strategic roadmap items (confidence primitives, earned context, reasoning transparency) have defined requirements and early prototypes.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $219,100.00 - $296,500.00 USD annually in New York, NY, and $199,200.00 - $269,500.00 USD annually in Seattle, WA. 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.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.