Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

This job is a member of the Digital Platform & User Experience (UX) team within IT.

Manages the design system program by maintaining, aligning and advocating the User Interface (UI) visual and interaction design across our digital platforms.

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

• Translate customer and business needs into actionable and strong designs that will deliver an exceptional product to our customers
• Collaborate with teams to maintain our design system for consistency, coherence and speed to spanet of our products
• Improve and approve design components through reviews and alignment to established patterns and standards that will reside in our design system
• Propose design components additions or features to the library of components
• Work with all product teams to establish strategy for stabilizing consistency across projects and devices
• Facilitate regular team planning sessions for designs
• Participate in the planning around growing a design system
• Learn new technologies, improve and optimize on existing technologies
• Maintain design libraries and artifacts, such as sketch library files, GIT workflow
• Write and review technical documentation for design components and user interaction
• Create user centric design solutions that align with digital strategy and company goals
• Recommend and incorporate design improvements from usability and research findings into design
• Enforce accessibility best practices and uphold WCAG 2.0 AA standards for designs

• Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, Information Systems or other related discipline, or equivalent experience
  • 3 years of experience in web-based, front-end user interface design on high-profile websites
• Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
  • Full stack UX Engineer with HTML, CSS and Javascript knowledge, who can promote standards and accessibility best practices
  • E-commerce and/or airline industry experience
• Skills, Licenses & Certifications
  • Experience with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Experience working on enterprise design systems
  • Knowledge of responsive, adaptive and accessible design
  • Understanding of components and patterns of a design system and how each design choice is able to scale
  • Ability to express design principles and generate consensus over the vision
  • Experience with iPhone/Android app design
  • Well organized, thrive in a sense-of-urgency environment, leverage best practices and most importantly, innovate through any problem with a can-do attitude

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.