Senior Native Mobile Designer (iOS & Android) 

 

The Company 

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. 

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express. 

 

Design Systems Team 

The American Express Design System saves teams time and resources by providing ready to use front-end components and design guidelines that bring consistency to the American Express customer journey. Containing over 300 components and styles, DS supports multiple frameworks and is looking to enhance their product offerings. Carefully maintained guidelines provide clear rules, as well as best practices to help teams adopt the design system and set the standard in design across the enterprise. By providing DS to the entire enterprise, we can dramatically improve teams’ strategic agility, speed to market, transparency, and the business value they drive.  

The library and guidelines are maintained by a team of designers, product managers, and engineers that are constantly working to evolve the library through user research, testing, and ideation. 

 

About the Role 

We are looking for a Senior Native Mobile Designer to help shape and scale our enterprise design system across iOS and Android. This role sits at the intersection of design craft, platform expertise, and systems thinking. You will ensure our mobile experiences feel unmistakably native, accessible, and cohesive—while remaining flexible enough to support dozens of teams and products. 

As a senior designer within a large design systems organization, you will influence standards, components, and tooling that impact millions of users and hundreds of designers and engineers. 

What You will Do 

Design, evolve, and maintain native iOS and Android components and templates within the design system 

Apply deep knowledge of Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and Material Design to ensure platform-appropriate layouts, interactions, and motion 

Translate complex product requirements into scalable, reusable mobile system solutions 

Partner closely with mobile engineers, product designers and product managers to ensure high-fidelity implementation in native code 

Build and maintain Figma libraries (components, variants, auto layout, variables, tokens) optimized for mobile design workflows 

Contribute to system governance and quality standards, reviewing contributions for usability, accessibility, and platform alignment 

Create and maintain clear system documentation, including usage guidance, platform-specific considerations, and edge cases 

Advocate for accessibility, performance, and usability best practices in mobile design 

Mentor other designers and help raise the bar for mobile design craft across the organization 

Present to leadership and articulate design system decisions, requirements, releases, onboarding to partners across the organization 

What We are Looking For 

7+ years of experience in digital product design, with significant focus on native mobile design 

Proven experience designing for both iOS and Android (not responsive web only) 

Strong working knowledge of Apple HIG and Material Design, including platform conventions and constraints 

Advanced Figma expertise, including component architecture, variants, auto layout, variables/design tokens, and library management 

Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system at scale in a complex, multi-product environment 

Ability to think systemically while maintaining a high bar for interaction design, layout precision, and visual polish 

Strong presentation and collaboration skills with engineers and an understanding of how design decisions translate to native implementation 

Clear communicator who can articulate design rationale and tradeoffs 

Must have a team mindset and be able to take direction from leadership 

 

Nice to Have 

Experience supporting multiple brands or themes within a single design system 

Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG and platform-specific guidelines) 

Experience with design tokens, theming, or design-to-code workflows 

Prior mentorship or informal leadership experience within design teams 

Motion and Animation experience is a plus 

Why This Role Matters 

This role has an enterprise-level impact. The components and standards you help define will shape how mobile products are designed and built across the organization. Your work will enable teams to move faster while delivering consistent, high-quality native mobile experiences at scale. 

An online portfolio demonstrating samples of design deliverables is required to apply for this role. 

Salary Range: $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

Competitive base salaries Bonus incentives 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan Free financial coaching and financial well-being support Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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