About the position
Amazon strives to be the world's most customer-centric company, where customers can research and purchase anything they might want online or offline. We set big goals and are looking for people who can help us reach and exceed them. The Amazon Device and Services team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including Kindle eReaders, Fire tablets, Alexa, Fire TV, Echo, Blink, Eero, Halo, Kuiper and Zoox. We are also the home of Ring. The Ring design team is looking for a Senior Manager of Product Design to guide several consumer teams. In this role, you'll be a foundational member on the app leadership team, working together with your counterparts in engineering, product management, UX research, content design and other disciplines to define the strategy, operations and communications that guide the team to build great products addressing real customer needs. You'll be expected to utilize your full range of people management skills, product strategy, product design, interaction design and visual design skills.
Responsibilities
- Grow and manage a talented team of product designers with a broad range of experiences, perspectives, approaches, and backgrounds that consistently deliver on projects and are well-balanced across a range of design skill sets
- Provide leadership and design direction, influencing across teams and giving thoughtful, detailed and actionable design feedback
- Promote collaboration and facilitate communication with stakeholders at all levels and across diverse disciplines and geographies
- Responsible for overall team performance and health, resource allocation, project prioritization, and building an environment of design craft
- Foster a customer-obsessed design culture by sharing best practices, evangelizing design principles and influencing product strategy
- Lead and oversee the user experience of a product from conception to launch in partnership with product managers, engineers, UX researchers and content designers
- Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of our devices, software features and services
Requirements
- 10+ years of design experience
- 5+ years of leading multi-discipline Design teams (ie. visual design, interaction design, user research, etc.) experience
- Experience managing teams
- Experience leading a diverse team in the delivery of experiences from end to end (user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity visuals)
Nice-to-haves
- Experience presenting to and effectively advising senior leaders outside of design
- Experience embedding design within product teams for agile design and development collaboration
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Equity options
- Sign-on payments
