Senior UX Designer

About

Join the team that defines user experience for Amazon's Digital products (Kindle, Music, Video, Prime etc.). Amazon's Digital Acceleration team is looking for 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 efforts across Amazon by defining near and long-term customers 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 broad stakeholder group. You thrive on synthesizing various qualitative and quantitative inputs to discover, define and deliver innovative features that address unmet customer needs. You also thrive on iterative exploration of incremental and large-scale solutions that consider technical feasibility. This 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.

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

Compensation and Benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, BELLEVUE - 137,800.00 - 186,400.00 USD annually