Job Description
Open to Several Locations: LA, NYC, PA, DET, and SEA
We're on a journey to build something new! Come join our team and build new discovery and shopping products that connect customers with their new vehicle of choice. In this role, you'll be designing the new product vision for a new customer experience on Amazon. We're starting with a PM and UX team to define the vision and then we'll follow with a full engineering team.
We're looking for a design leader who:
* Can think big, concept and design new products of proven customer value
* Is highly technical and can design solutions that remove customer pain-points
* Can invent new interaction patterns and leverage technology to delight customers
* Can work with a cross-functional team to develop and execute
* Can design and deliver experiments that evolve into new learnings
* Can think, act and design for a global customer
In this role, you will be reviewing designs regularly with senior executives. You will be expected to educate down, up and out on your design decisions and back them up with data/customer insight. You will be responsible for managing your own work queue and should demonstrate an ability to work around difficult design limitations. You'll be an advocate for our customer experience, and understand your Amazon customer base, the competition and industry.
Key Responsibilities
* Create elegant and intuitive, multi-modal user experiences by incorporating insights, business requirements and technical constraints
* Lead the planning and strategic phases of a project. Proactively pitch new CX ideas, backed by a strong, well-articulated rationale
* Quickly and iteratively create user flows, wireframes, and lo-fi prototypes, with detailed visual design specifications for web and mobile interfaces
* Independently deliver UX solutions for problems of large scope and complexity
* Be a champion for user-centered design by researching/testing your solutions in front of users
* Present design work to UX, Product, and Engineering teams, as well as stakeholders and executive leadership
* Contribute to user experience design guidelines and development best practices and standards at Amazon Design Community
* Proactively mentor and lead other designersBasic Qualifications
* 6+ years of design experience
* An available online portfolio
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
