Senior UX Designer, Digital Acceleration

Amazon • Bellevue, WA

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About The Position

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 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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes
• Experience with UX design of complex workflows
• Knowledge of usability principles and techniques

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.

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed