Sr. UX Designer, Marketplace Platform
Job ID 432261Location US-MI-DetroitPosted Date 8/22/2016Company Amazon Corporate LLCPosition Category DesignRecruiting Team ..Job Description
Over two million third party sellers from nine countries run a wide variety of businesses through the Amazon Marketplace platform, making it one of the biggest drivers of entrepreneurship anywhere in the world. Amazon's Marketplace Experience Design team is looking for a Senior UX Designer to work with our Detroit based platform development team to develop platform wide UX systems that will lay the foundation of a world class experience for our sellers. This includes evolving site wide information architecture, navigation, settings, homepage, and key design patterns. In this highly visible role you will work closely with engineering and business partners. The ideal candidate for this position will be customer-obsessed, detail-oriented and comfortable working on highly technical teams as well as able to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. This role will also require frequent travel to our Seattle headquarters to work with the core Marketplace Experience Design Team.As a Senior UX Designer for Marketplace Platform your responsibilities will include:* Work closely with cross-functional teams to help define business and feature requirements, user scenarios and use cases.* Relentlessly simplify and distill complex business processes into intuitive and elegant experiences.* Create process flows, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and mockups to effectively communicate high-level design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors.* Contribute to the development and communication of design guidelines and patterns, with focus on providing a consistent and intuitive experience across the Seller Central product portfolio.* Provide design leadership to technical teams by fostering a shared understanding of the customer-centric intersection between design, business and technology through on-going application reviews.* Be resourceful and creative to overcome obstacles and turn challenges into opportunities.
Basic Qualifications
* 6+ years industry experience providing interaction design solutions for web and/or software applications.* Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience as an user experience designer.* A strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience creating great user-centered design solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
* Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills including the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.* Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs.* Comprehensive understanding of the current state of web technology and best practices.* Strong practical knowledge of user-centered design methodologies, usability principles, web-based information architecture and design.* Ability to define patterns and advocate for consistency, without repressing inspiration or inhibiting innovation.* Ability to work gracefully and have a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment.* An unfailing passion and capacity to advocate on behalf of our users.* Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business needs, and customer expectations.* Familiarity with the technical considerations involved in designing for complex systems.* Ability to turn around rigorous wireframes and mockups in an iterative, agile environment.* Ability to scope design initiatives accurately and prioritize work items appropriately.* Proficiency with accessibility compliance.* Ability to create functional prototypes.* Proficiency with leading design tools.
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