# Josh Cusick

> Systems & AI @Amazon | ex Microsoft (Opinions are my own)

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joshcusick

Seasoned Lead Product Designer with experience in design systems and mobile design.

## Work Experience
### Sr. Product Designer, Systems & AI @ Amazon
Jan 2025 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States
Enhancing iOS and Android experiences for Amazon employees

Tech stack: SwiftUI, React Native, Figma, LLMs, etc.

### Founder and Writer @ Beyond The Pixel
Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States
Writing about systems, collaboration, design, and coding for 2,500 creatives and engineers. Subscribe for free now!

https://joshcusick.substack.com/

### Founder @ Design Systems For Figma
Jan 2020 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States
Design Systems For Figma is a free collection of design system UI kits paired with code.

### Design Consultant @ Freelance
Jan 2017 – Jan 2025 | Greater Seattle Area
I’ve worked with numerous clients advising on product design, web design/development, and design systems.

### Senior Product Designer @ Braze
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | St Petersburg, Florida, United States
(Impacted by layoff)

• Conducted user research to enhance key components in Braze's workflow.
• Developed a Figma plugin for a seamless transition to a new UI kit, saving thousands in design hours.
• Evangalized design system best practices.

### Staff Product Designer, Design Systems @ Albertsons Companies
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | St Petersburg, Florida, United States
(Impacted by layoff) - I led the Pantry Design System team, overseeing the creation and maintenance of components, libraries, and patterns while developing and implementing a strategic roadmap aligned with organizational goals. 

Additionally, I coached engineers and designers on best practices, presented to stakeholders, standardized a component design process, established a design token naming convention, and utilized Figma's REST API to build an automated icon and token pipeline, resulting in substantial cost savings and reduced engineering and design hours annually.

Tech stack: Figma, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS

### Senior Product Designer, Design Systems @ Gusto
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | St Petersburg, Florida, United States
I led component design for the Workbench Design System. I worked closely with my engineering partners to design and build semantic, flexible, and durable components and their APIs. 

Technology stack: Typescript, React, HTML/CSS, & Figma

### Product Designer II, Design Systems @ Microsoft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Worked on the Teams Component Library and Fluent Design System.

Technology stack: Figma, HTML/CSS, React, & TypeScript

### Product Designer, Design Systems @ EagleView
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Bellevue, Washington, United States
I led and facilitated collaboration between Research, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Engineering, and Product to build a company-wide design system.

Technology stack: Figma, Protopie, HTML/CSS, & React

### UX Designer @ Fair Worlds
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area
Led the UX Design and Research for an augmented reality native iOS mobile application and successfully released on the Apple Store.


## Education
### Security and Risk Analysis
Penn State University

### Business/Commerce in General
Belmont University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joshcusick
- Portfolio: https://joshcusick.substack.com/

---
Source: https://flows.cv/joshcusick
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/joshcusick/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-31