Senior UX Designer, Amazon

WW Technology Deployment

$127.1-211.6k

CSS
HTML
JavaScript
Sketch
Invision
Photoshop
Illustrator
Figma
Balsamiq
Wireframe
Senior and Expert level
Austin
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Be an early applicant

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Be an early applicant

$127.1-211.6k

CSS
HTML
JavaScript
Sketch
Invision
Photoshop
Illustrator
Figma
Balsamiq
Wireframe
Senior and Expert level
Austin

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • We are seeking an imaginative, skillful, and versatile designer who in addition to having a substantive hands-on experience of designing for exceptional customer experience and also has a good understanding of experience design for mobile apps
  • We're looking for an experienced designer to lead UX design for our team
  • 7+ years of design experience
  • Have an available online portfolio
  • Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments including design sprint cycles
  • Strong understanding of responsive and mobile-first design principles
  • Ability to balance user needs with business goals and technical constraints
  • Experience with prototyping tools and techniques to quickly iterate on design concepts
  • Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and design
  • Experience acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps
  • Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
  • Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
  • Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, Balsamiq, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, or similar
  • Experience working with stakeholders to plan and execute programs that are strategic in nature
  • Experience with UX design of complex workflows

Desirable

  • Experience in designing for complex and data-driven applications
  • Familiarity with accessibility standards and best practices (e.g., WCAG) and experience designing inclusive user experiences
  • Able to take ambiguous design problems and work with stakeholders and user research insights to craft design solutions grounded in customer needs and business goals
  • Understanding of design thinking and lean UX methodologies
  • Experience with motion design and creating interactive prototypes
  • Contributions to the design community through blogs, speaking engagements, or open-source projects
  • Experience with internationalization and localization of user interfaces
  • Knowledge of front-end development languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and how design integrates with development

What the job involves

  • As a Sr. UX Designer, you will work closely with product managers, business stakeholders, engineers and developers in a hands-on role, building personalized experiences for our customers filled with inspiration, discovery, and delight
  • You will craft innovative user experiences from early stage product concepts to launch, and as the multidisciplinary core of our design practice, help creatively shape and drive the customer experience
  • Lead and improve upon our product design process - starting from early research and hypothesis, through defining requirements, creating user flows, wireframes, visual designs, and prototypes to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed interaction behaviors that support decision making and development
  • Own UX from beginning to end and ensure product/feature is built to spec and achieves project goals
  • Elevate the visual design of the customer experience to drive higher engagement
  • Contribute to the group’s best practices for UX design while continually advocating design thinking, process, and craft throughout our organization
  • You care and work towards fostering an inclusive and supportive design culture
  • Drive design through all phases, from user research and exploratory prototypes to design reviews, delivery, and usability testing
  • Collaborate and communicate effectively within cross-functional teams across design, product, engineering, and management
  • Advocate for the user experience in all discussions, ensuring that the user’s voice is heard and considered in product decisions
  • Stay current with industry trends, tools, and technologies, and apply them to improve the design process and deliver cutting-edge experiences
  • Ensure consistency and adherence to design standards and guidelines across all products and platforms
  • Present design concepts and strategies to stakeholders and senior management, effectively communicating design rationale and decisions
  • The UX Designer will be focused on delivering innovative, customer-forward, business-relevant, and mobile-first CX. While day-to-day focus will vary, work will include:
  • Designing conceptual sketches, wireframe information architecture, high-fidelity mockups, prototypes and interaction specifications
  • Partnering with product managers and engineering on product and feature launches
  • Collaborating with product and business teams to inform CX improvements
  • Using research methodologies to turn customer feedback into actionable findings
  • Delivering high quality creative designs across diverse products and devices

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
  • Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
  • 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Leadership

Jeff Bezos

(Founder & Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO)

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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