Job Title: UI Designer II
Location: Seattle, WA (Hybrid)
Duration: 03 Months
 

• The Kindle team is looking for a detail-oriented and motivated UI Designer to join our design systems team.
• In this role, you will play a key part in building and maintaining our design system documentation site -- the central resource that helps designers and engineers across the organization understand and apply our design language consistently.
• This is a hands-on, execution-focused role for someone who takes pride in clear, well-organized content and has a strong eye for visual quality.
  You'll work closely with senior designers and cross-functional partners to migrate, edit, and format documentation for design system foundations, components, and patterns across web, iOS/Android, and Kindle e-reader surfaces.
• You'll also create visual assets that bring those elements to life, helping teams understand how and when to use them.
  
  Responsibilities:
• Migrate, edit, and format written content for design system foundations, components, and patterns across web, iOS, Android, and Kindle e-reader surfaces
• Create visual assets, diagrams, and annotated examples to illustrate design system elements and usage guidelines
• Maintain and update the design system documentation site, ensuring content is accurate, consistent, and easy to navigate
• Audit existing documentation for gaps, inconsistencies, and outdated information, and flag or resolve issues as appropriate
• Collaborate with senior designers and engineers to ensure documentation reflects current design standards and implementation
• Support the team in organizing and structuring content to improve findability and usability of the documentation site
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of documentation templates, standards, and workflows
• 20% Team meetings, work sessions, participation in team office hours
• 50% Populating the content in design system website that involves migrating the content from other sources,
• 20% documentation website, design files (exporting files) Create visuals for the documentation e.g graphics display on doc site
• 10% Miscellaneous design and graphic task
• Primary contact design program manager, senior design program manager, work closely with multiple UX designer, through design studio, software dev engineers (combined code and design)

 
Basic Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience in UX design, visual design, content design, or a related field
• A portfolio or work samples demonstrating strong visual craft and attention to detail
• Proficiency in Figma or similar modern design tools
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to write and edit clear, concise design documentation
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and prioritize effectively in a fast-moving environment
• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction HCI, communications, or equivalent professional experience
  
  Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience working with design systems, component libraries, or structured documentation
• Familiarity with design token and component-based workflows
• Experience designing for or documenting across multiple surfaces (web, mobile, and/or e-reader or other specialized devices)
• Comfort working with front-end concepts, HTML, CSS, or design-to-code workflows
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and inclusive design principles
• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system documentation site or wiki

 
Candidate Requirements
Top 3 Must Have Hard Skills
(Top 3 ranked in importance)
              1. Figma
              2. Writing and editing/formatting
              3. Easily trained and familiar with CMS- content management system
 
Nice to haves
(Top 3 ranked in importance)
              1. Experience in design systems
              2. User Experience design
              3.
 
Years of Experience: Min 2yrs experience, but preferred 3-5yrs
Degree/ Certification Requirements : Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction HCI, communications,
Or equivalent professional experience 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 51.00/hr.