Sr. Associate – UX Designer – Design Systems-DS
About this opportunity
Career Category
Marketing
Job Description
About the Role:
As a UX Designer supporting the Amgen Design System, you will contribute to the creation, evolution, and adoption of scalable UI components and patterns across multiple brands. You’ll work within Figma and partner closely with engineering to ensure design intent translates cleanly into implementation. This role blends hands-on design systems work with cross-brand support, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and usability across the ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities:
Contributing to Strategic Initiatives:
Lead brand onboarding into the Amgen Design System (intake, planning, tracking).
Manage roadmaps, timelines, and migration plans across multiple workstreams.
Establish and maintain tracking systems (e.g., Smartsheet, Jira).
Coordinate across UX, engineering, and AEM teams to ensure aligned delivery.
Drive communication and transparency (status updates, release notes, stakeholder syncs).
Support governance processes (component intake, prioritization, approvals).
Facilitate office hours, training sessions, and documentation rollout.
Identify and resolve process gaps, inefficiencies, and communication breakdowns.
Team & Delivery:
Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, and content specialists based in India to ensure smooth project execution and cross-functional alignment.
Contribute to a collaborative team environment by promoting open communication, knowledge sharing, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
Support day-to-day operations by participating in sprint planning sessions, tracking tasks, and coordinating with vendors and cross-functional teams as needed.
Driving Operational Excellence:
Establish robust workflows for development, testing, deployment, and maintenance within Adobe Experience Manager and other Adobe tools.
Monitor performance metrics, manage A/B testing efforts, and champion data-driven decision-making.
Ensure SEO best practices, accessibility standards, and compliance guidelines are consistently implemented.
Collaboration & Communication:
Partner with global marketing, product, and digital technology teams to deliver integrated, impactful experiences.
Support clear and timely communication of project updates, key metrics, and progress to global stakeholders across time zones, ensuring alignment and transparency.
Collaborate with other offshore/onshore development teams, ensuring smooth and effective execution.
Qualifications:
3+ years of experience in web development, content management, or digital product leadership, with at least 3 years in a managerial role.
5-9 over all experience with related field .
Proven expertise with Adobe Experience Cloud, including Adobe Assets, Sites, Creative Suite, Content Analytics, and Workfront.
Proficient knowledge of the end-to-end content lifecycle, web content management, content publishing/deployment, and delivery processes.
Knowledge of Cloud-native approaches and platforms including AWS or Azure, or GCP.
Understanding of AEM as Cloud Service.
Strong proficiency in Figma (components, variants, auto layout, tokens).
Understanding of frontend technologies like Bootstrap, ReactJS, Handlebars, Angular, CSS3, and HTML 5.
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.
Preferred Experience:
Familiarity with design systems and UX workflows.
Understanding of Figma and brand/variable token structure.
Multi-brand architecture familiarity.
Exposure to AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) and/or enterprise CMS ecosystems.
Understanding of Storybook or frontend component workflows.
Experience supporting distributed/global team
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Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Marketing role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 110 comparable Senior Marketing roles across 18 biopharma companies.
Salary context
51 of 110 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 110 comparable roles
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Seniority mix
110 of 110 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
25 of 110 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
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How we calculate "similar"
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Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.