Sr. Product Designer, AI Design Systems Lead, Goodreads

ID: 5030

Type: Full-time

Category: Others

Company Name: Goodreads LLC

Location: USA, CA, San Francisco - San Francisco - United States

Salary: 156,400.00 - 211,600.00 USD annually

Education Level: Lead

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Job Description

Want to change the lives of millions of readers by making it easy to discover books and get more out of reading?

As a Senior Product Designer on the Goodreads Design team, you’ll work with engineers, data scientists, researchers, product managers, sales managers, customer experts, content creators, and designers to build products that help readers find books they'll love and get more out of them, and enables authors, publishers and advertisers to connect with our audience of engaged readers.

Goodreads is currently reimagining our products and brand. In this role, you will own, manage, and deliver an AI-ready design system that accelerates design velocity and consistency across mobile apps and web. You will help the team invent and simplify as we grow our business and continually identify new opportunities to deliver value to all of our customers– readers, authors, and publisher/advertiser partners. You will be responsible for maturing our design system and tooling while up-leveling customer experiences across core product areas: Discovery, Reading, Tracking, and Community through AI enablement. You’ll design across all touch points including web, iOS and Android apps, and emails.

Key job responsibilities
• Deliver a robust AI-ready design system that accelerates design velocity and consistency across mobile apps and web.
- Clear goal definition and adoption and usage of the system across multiple teams.
- Cross-functional stakeholders aligned and engaged in system development.
- A repeatable process for scaling and evolving the system as AI and product needs grow.

• Own the design and AI enablement of our design system to deliver core reader experiences across mobile apps and web; driving adoption, evaluating system gaps, optimizing processes, and scaling to meet all product and surface needs.

• Manage the design libraries and tooling while educating the team on best practices and providing resources.

• Create customer-centered designs that incorporate customer feedback, user research, data, market trends and technical constraints.

• Create flows, wireframes, design mockups, rapid prototypes to effectively conceptualize, prove out, and deliver on exceptional product experiences.

• Partner with design, product, and engineering teams to define systems and AI enablement of design work.

• Partner with User Research and independently drive evaluative research to develop understanding for the customer and validate design choices before and after development.

• Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross-functionally, while being able to precisely articulate design rationale.

• Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.

A day in the life
Product Design at Goodreads brings together the practices of human factors, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, UX research, and related disciplines into a single, customer-centric design role. Our designers are generalists with specialties who translate customer insights and business needs into product experiences that delight, generate visual concepts that exceed expectations, and work with Ai and developers to deliver those concepts with a high level of quality.

Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, and we have over 100 million members. Our office is located in downtown San Francisco. Goodreads is an Amazon company, so you will have opportunities to partner with Kindle and Amazon teams to elevate the reading experience for millions of customers.

Basic Qualifications

- 6+ years of UX designer or interaction designer experience
- Have an online portfolio or samples of work on resume, demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns, across desktop and mobile devices
- Experience with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax
- Experience with scaling experiences across native iOS and Android as well as mobile and desktop web
- Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
- Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
- Experience building strategic relationships with stakeholders, including communicating and collaborating across teams and functions
- Expert in Figma, prototyping, and documentation platforms.
- Have an online portfolio or samples of work on resume, demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns, across desktop and mobile devices.

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and design
- Experience working directly with engineering teams
- Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
- Strong visual and interaction design skills.
- Experience with managing, contributing to, and adopting design systems.
- A clear understanding of user-centered design processes and how AI can be integrated.
- Experience designing for consumer-facing and ad-supported products.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, San Francisco - 156,400.00 - 211,600.00 USD annually

Company Information

Company Name: Goodreads LLC

Company Website: https://www.goodreads.com

Company Address: 88 Spear Street, Suite 250, San Francisco, California 94105, United States

Goodreads is a widely used online social cataloging platform for book readers that provides tools for discovering, organizing, reviewing, and sharing information about books. Launched in 2006 by founders Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler, Goodreads established itself as a community-driven destination where readers can create personal catalogs, maintain reading lists (commonly labeled “Read,” “Currently Reading,” and “Want to Read”), write and rate reviews, follow other readers and authors, participate in discussion groups, and receive personalized book recommendations. The core offering is a searchable database of books that aggregates bibliographic information alongside user-generated content—ratings, reviews, lists, quotes, and reading progress updates—which together enable social discovery and peer-driven recommendation. Goodreads’ principal activities center on operating its website and mobile applications, developing user engagement features, and maintaining a large dataset of book metadata and user-contributed content. The platform’s functionality includes personalized book recommendations driven by user ratings and reading histories; list-building and shelving tools that let members organize their collections; reading-challenge features that allow members to set yearly reading goals and track progress; and community features such as topic-based groups, message boards, and Q&A with authors. Goodreads also runs annual community-driven events like the Goodreads Choice Awards and periodic promotions such as book giveaways, which are designed to connect readers with authors and publishers. For authors and publishers, Goodreads offers author pages and programmatic tools for audience engagement, allowing authors to claim profiles, post updates, and interact with readers. From a product and services perspective, Goodreads provides a public web application (goodreads.com), native mobile apps for iOS and Android, and integrations with third-party reading devices and platforms. Notably, Goodreads integrates with Amazon’s Kindle ecosystem to facilitate syncing of reading progress, reviews, and highlights between Kindle devices and the Goodreads platform. Goodreads has historically provided an API to allow certain developers and partner services to query book and user-shelf data for integration and discovery scenarios. The site’s business model combines audience-driven features with monetization avenues such as advertising, affiliate links to booksellers, promotional programs for publishers and authors, and partnerships with third-party vendors in the book and reading space. Goodreads’ user-generated content is central to its value proposition: aggregated ratings and reviews help other readers evaluate books and inform purchase or reading decisions. The platform’s cataloging and metadata capabilities make it useful for both casual readers and more systematic collectors who want to maintain detailed records of their personal libraries. Community moderation and crowdsourced corrections also contribute to the platform’s bibliographic data quality over time. The site supports tagging, lists, and custom shelving conventions, enabling varied organizational schemes and social sharing. Additionally, Goodreads supports discovery through curated lists, staff and community recommendations, and algorithmic suggestions based on reading histories. Following its independent growth phase, Goodreads was acquired by Amazon in 2013. Post-acquisition, Goodreads continued to operate as part of Amazon’s broader portfolio of services related to books and reading, while maintaining a consumer-facing platform that emphasizes social interaction and recommendations rather than direct retailing. Integration points with Amazon’s services, such as Kindle integration and buy links to retailers, have been part of the combined ecosystem while Goodreads’ social and cataloging features remain central to its identity. Goodreads addresses several distinct user segments: casual readers seeking recommendations and social interaction; avid readers and collectors who want detailed cataloging tools; authors and publishers looking to reach engaged readers and run promotions; and third-party developers or partners who leverage Goodreads’ data and community features for discovery or integration. Core operational considerations for Goodreads include moderation of user content, maintenance and enhancement of bibliographic metadata, scaling the platform to support large volumes of user-generated content, and evolving mobile and web experiences to meet expectations for discovery and social interaction. Over time Goodreads has become a commonly referenced resource in the broader digital reading ecosystem due to the breadth of its user-contributed reviews and lists. The platform’s public-facing features, including author pages, reader discussions, and award programs, foster a participatory culture around books. While Goodreads focuses on enabling social reading and cataloging, it also interfaces with commercial stakeholders—publishers, booksellers, and authors—by providing channels for outreach and promotion. The company and platform are therefore positioned at the intersection of social discovery, bibliographic aggregation, and author-reader engagement within the digital book ecosystem.

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