Description

Our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. In pursuit of this, our 50+ person global Design Studio provides the user research, UX, and brand design for Kindle E-readers, Kindle apps for phones tablets, Author Publisher tools, and book shopping experiences used by millions of readers and thousands of authors around the world. We are looking for a passionate, design-focused, and customer-obsessed UX designer to join our team.

In this role you will own driving the customer experience and design while building a new, best-in-class internal content risk management tool.

As a Senior UX Designer, you will be trusted to operate with independence and ownership, including in areas where the program strategy is still being defined. Informing your judgement is deep knowledge and practical experience in UX best practices processes, product design and interactive design. Additionally, you have experience with service design and successfully launched B2C and/or B2B web-based portals that have delivered results.

You invent, evolve, improve, and simplify in a manner that scales across multiple teams, feature types, and development methodologies. You are flexible and comfortable with ambiguity, and adapt your approach to meet the needs of a broad set of partners. At the same time, you are highly collaborative with both product and engineering partners, adept at driving a multi-tenant customer experience vision.

Key job responsibilities

• Create user-centered designs and workflows by considering feedback, site metrics, and usability findings

• Use contribute to business requirements and customer research to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements

• Design the visual style, interface, and interaction flow of applications and experiences

• Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, click-through’s and prototypes

• Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications, design patterns and documentation

• Develop streamlined prioritization and work processes in collaboration with product and engineering partners

A day in the life

• You will work with product managers, software developers, and content strategist to create elegant design solutions

• You will collaborate with designers, product managers, and researchers across the company to develop design strategies and deliver results for the customer

About the team

We are a diverse, collaborative group with a passion for crafting exceptional experiences to help our authors and publishers reach readers. We hope you'll join us.

The team is largely based in Seattle, but we are open to the following locations: Seattle, WA/New York, NY/San Francisco, CA

Basic Qualifications

7+ 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 in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity

Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, or similar

Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with stakeholders to plan and execute programs that are strategic in nature

Experience designing in an agile development environment

Experience acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps

Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

A sense of humor, pride in your work, and the ability to gracefully give and receive feedback

A passion for books and reading

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.

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

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127,100/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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.