Senior UX Designer, Amazon

• If you have a passion for designing exceptional digital products and a track record of driving tangible impact, we'd love to hear from you
• You are an outcome-oriented designer with a strong foundation in UX methodology, razor-sharp interaction design, and systems thinking
• You also possess a bold and creative outlook using data, trends, and intuition to evolve design practices and uncover new product opportunities to delight customers
• Alongside your UX prowess, we seek a designer who inspires cross-functional partners to build bar-raising experiences through effective communication and relationship-building
• You will need a strong technical design understanding as you solve system and UX problems simultaneously
• 7+ years of design experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), a related field, or 4+ years of additional experience

Desirable

• We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Designer to join our team at ART19, Amazon's SaaS platform for podcast creators, publishers, and advertisers
• In this role, you will collaborate closely with our leadership to define the strategic design vision and drive innovation for our industry-leading platform
• ART19's mission is to create the premier platform for all aspects of podcasting, catering to a diverse range of users - from independent creators to large enterprises
• Your focus will be on developing a seamless, intuitive, and empowering experience that enables our users to succeed
• As Senior Product Designer, you will establish overarching design strategy, execute fundamental design research, and lead design innovation activities
• Drive the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences while planning and defining strategy for the direction of future experiences, all the way from concept to final implementation
• Clearly and persuasively communicate, specify, and describe design concepts, solutions and needs to senior executives
• Quickly iterate on multiple interactive design solutions and work through details
• Advocate for your design solutions by leveraging diverse inputs that influenced the design decisions including customer and business goals, usage data, and research findings
• Develop high level and/or detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Deliver work that's not only customer-friendly, aesthetically engaging, but which also produces results
• Work collaboratively with engineers and product managers to create amazing user experiences that delight customers
• Assess and optimize the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics
• Contribute to the group’s shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies
• Use humor, creativity, and positive energy to maintain personal and team momentum
• In this role, you will have a significant opportunity to define and drive design strategy within ART19's platform
• You will be responsible for building and relentlessly advocating for best-in-class CX (user interface design, branding, interaction models, prototypes, etc.) and seeing your design through to launch; then using data to iterate and improve