Principal User Experience Designer, Amazon Rufus

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

The Rufus Design team is responsible for customer experiences that make it
easier and more enjoyable for new and experienced Amazon shoppers to gather
inspiration, find the right products within Amazon’s vast selection, and
evaluate products for purchase with ease.

We seek a Principal User Experience Designer to help us refine and create new
features for Rufus, our new AI shopping assistant.

To thrive in this role, you must be a pioneer with an inventor’s spirit and a
strong understanding of interaction design who is passionate about technology
and innovation. You are able to work fast, handle several projects, and quickly
discern the needs of a brand as it relates to visual identity. You know how to
present ideas professionally through a strategic and creative lens. You must be
comfortable working with project briefs and managing stakeholder inputs,
functional requirements, and timelines. You have a solid understanding of
conversation design fundamentals combined with a deep understanding of how to
collaborate with conversational designers, UX designers, researchers, product
management, engineering, data science, and operational teams as you go from
early-stage product concepts to launches of new features and experiences.

Requirements

• 10+ years of design experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• Experience with best practices for User Interface Design, Information Architecture, and Interaction Design
• Experience in life cycle design projects from design strategy through execution

Nice To Haves

• Experience providing and effectively communicating strategic and tactical recommendations based on data

Responsibilities

• Create world-class, user-centered designs through consideration of UX research, market research, business requirements, customer feedback, and usability study findings
• Work with Science and Editorial teams to help train the LLM to generatd content that matches the intention of the designs
• Demonstrate leadership in driving design processes into the organization that help refine strategy.
• Translate business requirements into use cases and high-level customer experience requirements
• Design the interface and interaction flow of new features
• Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications
• Present design work to the user experience team, product team, engineering team, Amazon.com leadership, and external partners for review and feedback
• Work with our usability and data mining teams to assess and optimize new and existing features
• Develop high level strategy for customers for both near and long term.
• Collaborate with other design team members on experiences, frameworks, process, and best practices.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed