Ambassadors

Key Responsibilities

As a DS Ambassador, there are five key responsibilities that make this program effective for both the Design System team and our users:

• Acting as a liaison between the design teams and the Design Systems team.
• Consolidating and communicating updates on DS initiatives, ensuring their team is informed and aligned with our system’s evolution.
• Providing feedback from their teams to help shape the direction and priorities of the Design Systems team.
• Fostering a culture of system thinking across channels, challenging and contributing to conversations around design systems within their teams.
• Supporting the DS contribution model, following guidelines and best practices for creating, documenting, and curating patterns reusable components for the DS.

Why become an Ambassador?

• Get closer to the Design System core team and become a systems thinking advocate​
• Be the main point of contact for the design systems for your own team
• Opportunity to grow and show leadership skills
• Your chance to influence the larger design community at Amex through cross-platform collaboration

Ambassador Monthly Working Sessions

Each month, we bring the Ambassadors together to discuss a range of agenda topics including:

• Team updates: what’s upcoming for your team this PI (quarterly)
• Discuss use cases for upcoming design system component uplifts
• Design thinking workshops
• Team Share-outs
• Show & tell design feedback
• Component workshops
• Design system feedback (v6 and v7 Figma kits)
• Review design system contributions

Interested in becoming a DLS Ambassador? Reach out to us at dls@aexp.com and let us know!