• Experience in design
• Experience leading design teams
• Experience managing teams
• Experience with a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Visio, Axure, and Dreamweaver
• Experience working cross-team and synthesize feedback and input from product management, engineering, testing, and marketing
• Experience leading design teams in problem definition, artifact rendering, cross-functional collaboration and delivery, and user validation and measurement
• Experience shipping innovative, successful consumer products
• Knowledge of user experience principles and techniques
• Demonstrated ability managing ambiguity and leading complex projects from concept (incl user research) to delivery and ongoing improvement
• You are an experienced design leader with a passion for systems thinking, data-driven ideas, and devising creative solutions to complex customer problems
• You’re looking to lead a focused team of experienced UX/VX designers, contributing to the strategic design and product direction in the payments space
• You have high standards, and you know how to help your team reach them, through good process, clear direction, and achievable goals
• You thrive in feedback cultures, and know when it's best to action feedback or push back

Desirable

• Amazon is developing innovate payments experiences and we're looking for a data-driven, dynamic design leader to infuse design and research best practices into this growing business
• In this role, you will lead design for experiences across the entire Payments customer journey, driving innovation for features that our customers get excited about
• You will lead your team to deliver an unforgettable product experience that puts customers at the center of each touchpoint
• You will have fluency and input in strategy, research and development while working collaboratively with key stakeholder teams across Product, Marketing, and Engineering to deliver superior experiences that exceed expectations
• Create the vision for developing, communicating, and implementing the user experience design for multiple products across platforms; follow through with the processes and tactics to implement the vision
• Lead a team of designers to create useful, usable, and desirable products in a team environment
• Guide teams to understand customers and their needs through market analysis, customer research, and feedback
• Coach a team of designers to use business requirements to assist in developing use cases and high-level requirements
• Support the design team with planning, prioritizing, and overseeing initiatives; manage projects; ensure that all designs are executed on time and at the highest quality levels; manage and scope team initiatives, set priorities, and direct the team to ensure timely delivery
• Collaborate with senior leaders from Product Management, Marketing, and Engineering