Senior Associate - UX Designer, Design Systems

About the role

Amgen is looking for a Senior Associate UX Designer to support its Design System. You will help create, evolve and adopt scalable UI components and patterns across multiple brands, working in Figma and partnering closely with engineering so that design intent translates cleanly into implementation. The role combines hands-on design systems work with cross-brand support, ensuring consistency, accessibility and usability.

Key responsibilities

• Lead brand onboarding into the Amgen Design System (intake, planning, tracking) and manage roadmaps, timelines and migration plans across workstreams
• Maintain tracking systems such as Smartsheet and Jira, and coordinate UX, engineering and AEM teams
• Drive communication and transparency through status updates, release notes and stakeholder syncs, and support governance processes
• Facilitate office hours, training sessions and documentation rollout, and resolve process gaps and communication breakdowns
• Work with product managers, developers and content specialists in India, and take part in sprint planning and vendor coordination
• Set up workflows for development, testing, deployment and maintenance in Adobe Experience Manager and other Adobe tools, monitor performance metrics and run A/B tests
• Ensure SEO best practices, accessibility standards and compliance guidelines are applied, and share project updates with global stakeholders across time zones

Required profile

• 3+ years of experience in web development, content management or digital product leadership, with at least 3 years in a managerial role
• 5-9 years of overall experience in a related field
• Experience working on a team of developers
• Strong understanding of digital compliance, web accessibility and regulated industry standards
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and project delivery skills

Required skills

• Proven expertise with Adobe Experience Cloud (Assets, Sites, Creative Suite, Content Analytics, Workfront)
• End-to-end content lifecycle, web content management and publishing/deployment
• Cloud-native platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP, and AEM as Cloud Service
• Figma (components, variants, auto layout, tokens)
• Frontend technologies: Bootstrap, ReactJS, Handlebars, Angular, CSS3, HTML5
• Preferred: design systems and UX workflows, multi-brand architecture, Storybook, and experience with distributed/global teams