Description
Join the team that defines user experience for the Amazon's Digital products (Kindle, Music, Video, Prime etc.). Amazon’s Digital Acceleration team is looking for a Senior UX Designer to lead and raise the UX bar. We seek an individual with the creative vision, customer obsession, and technical acumen to deliver customer obsessed UX that measurably improves our post purchase experience. It is an opportunity to lead and influence work across Amazon by defining near and long-term customer experiences to discover, purchase, and manage subscriptions and bundles on Amazon. You will identify, define, and propose new design patterns and features that delight across customer touch-points. Working backwards from a customer experience North Star you help envision, you will work closely with product and development teams to innovate, implement, and iteratively explore concepts.
You are a conceptual thinker with the ability to analyze and break work down into near and long term phases. You excel at managing and influencing a broad stakeholder group. You thrive on synthesizing various qualitative and quantitative inputs to discover, defining and delivering innovative features that address unmet customer needs. You iteratively explore, delivering incremental and large-scale solutions that consider technical feasibility. This role will require excellent presentation skills (written and oral), insight and data driven analysis, technical deep-dives, strong business judgment, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for customers.
Key job responsibilities
Bring a strong, customer-obsessed point of view
Synthesize consumer insights, business opportunities, product analytics, and competitive intelligence into concepts that scale.
Lead design activities like brainstorming, user testing and iteration to turn concepts into tangible solutions.
Create design artifacts like user flows, wireframes, visual mocks, and prototypes to communicate your ideas.
Independently present work, socialize ideas, and manage stakeholder expectations.
Work alongside engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the product development to ship results.
Work with the team to identify, track success metrics for design.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
8+ years of design experience
Knowledge of design tools such as Balsamiq, Omnigraffle, Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio, and Dreamweaver
Have an available online portfolio
Experience with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax
Preferred Qualifications
Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes
Experience with UX design of complex workflows
Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $113,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $211,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.