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

About the role

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. 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.

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 (e.g., confidence/uncertainty primitives, earned context, reasoning transparency).
• Design the best, for the most, for the least. Do the best work for the most customers for the least specialized effort — every unit of work should reach a large number of people, not one targeted product.
• Stop at doing the work for a team — do it with them and for everyone. Build coherence across the experience layer and a felt sense of product family, not siloed one-off features.
• Balance velocity with room to explore. Be a force for the team's momentum, and plan deliberately for exploration where it counts — research, inspiration, and critique — so the hardest problems get the depth they deserve instead of being rushed.
• Lead the "Own It. Ship It. Together." collaboration model. The team operates through a paired model — named engineer + designer from day one, building simultaneously rather than sequentially. Sustain and scale this model as more teams adopt the design system.
• Drive platform adoption without mandates. The guiding principle is that adoption is earned through usefulness, not mandates. Grow adoption by releasing incrementally, validating with research, generalizing proven solutions, and directly supporting the engineering teams who take a dependency on the design system across AAIS and beyond.
• Steward the shared design system partnership. Own the integration layer that adapts proven patterns for product team consumption, and the working relationship that brings durable patterns into the shared AWS design system for broad adoption. Shape the long-lead investments that support builders.
• Partner with the design leader to hire, steer, and develop the team. The UX designers sit within the AAIS UX design organization; the front-end engineers sit with you. Partner closely with the design leader to hire, develop, and retain world-class talent at the intersection of design systems and agentic AI.
• Set and maintain a single quality bar. Establish governance for prioritization, release cadence, documentation standards, and design-token management — in partnership with design on the craft bar and owning the business and delivery bar yourself.

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

Qualifications

• 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

Skills

• 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 is a strong plus

Benefits

Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture.

Company: Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Job ID: A10487613