Sr. UX Designer, AWS Applied AI Solutions

Role

Senior UX Designer on the Applied AI Solutions (Healthcare & Life Sciences) team, designing AI-native product experiences for scientists, clinicians, and healthcare professionals. The role focuses on shaping AI agent behavior as a core UX artifact, conducting user research, prototyping complex workflows, and partnering with product, engineering, and science teams to deliver production-ready experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design initiatives to define, constrain, and validate AI agent behavior, including persona and behavioral contract definitions.
• Conduct customer research and ethnographic studies with scientists and clinicians to surface workflows, collaboration patterns, and trust requirements.
• Create and validate long-term design strategies via prototyping, research, and proposal documents that advocate for user needs.
• Design for multiple user personas (bench scientists, computational biologists, clinicians) and handle happy-path and edge-case/error states, especially high-risk scenarios.
• Ensure AI-assisted experiences are transparent, trustworthy, cite sources, explain reasoning, and support professional judgment.
• Leverage and extend existing design systems (Trans Am; future transition to RAD) and create domain-specific patterns and scientific visualizations.
• Accelerate design delivery using vibe coding and AI-assisted prototyping tools; translate prototypes into production-ready specifications with engineering and science partners.
• Maintain alignment through regular syncs, feature tracking documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

Basic

• 8+ years of design experience.
• Available online portfolio.
• Experience with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Ajax.

Preferred

• Experience applying Scrum to visual or UX design processes.
• Experience designing UX for complex workflows.

Tools & Methods

• Design and prototyping: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax.
• Design systems: Trans Am (current), RAD (future transition).
• Methods: user research, ethnography, prototyping, vibe coding, AI-assisted prototyping, persona & behavioral contract definition, design strategy, and cross-functional collaboration.

Compensation & Locations (base salary ranges listed)

• Sunnyvale, CA: 156,400.00 - 211,600.00 USD annually
• New York, NY: 155,400.00 - 210,300.00 USD annually
• Seattle, WA: 137,800.00 - 186,400.00 USD annually