Senior UX Designer, Amazon

• The Amazon People Engine Experience Design team is looking for a Sr. UX Designer with a passion for improving the customer experience and driving high-visibility programs that will impact product designs used by millions of people
• We are looking for a highly-determined, highly-curious, entrepreneurial, and experienced UX Designer to help drive design strategy and mentor other designers within their scope of work
• You are responsive, flexible and able to succeed in a fast-paced environment with a high-degree of independence and ownership to thrive in collaborative work environments while raising the bar for user experience and accessibility
• 6+ years of design experience
• Knowledge of design tools such as Balsamiq, Omnigraffle, Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio, and Dreamweaver
• Have an available online portfolio
• Experience with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax

Desirable

• We are looking for a highly-determined, highly-curious, entrepreneurial, and experienced UX Designer to help drive design strategy and mentor other designers within their scope of work
• You will advocate for our customers and evangelize your findings to senior executives, stakeholders, and team members
• Your most important mission is to ensure that we’re doing what’s right for Amazon employees and prospective employees
• Our team includes UX Research and Design and actively partners with Product and Engineering to identify customer problems to solve, influence priorities, setting the North Star, planning work, executing design, ensuring quality, evaluating outcomes, and iterating
• This person will work collaboratively with a team of product managers, engineers, executives, as well as UX leadership, a team of passionate and creative UX designers and researchers to improve how employees interact with their job and Amazon
• You’ll drive work from partnering on strategy through to execution. You are responsive, flexible and able to succeed in a fast-paced environment with a high-degree of independence and ownership to thrive in collaborative work environments while raising the bar for user experience and accessibility
• Strategize and design elegant and intuitive experiences by understanding the intersection of customer needs, 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, prototypes, high fidelity mockups with detailed visual design specifications for mobile, and web interfaces throughout the design process
• Independently deliver UX solutions for problems of large scope and complexity. Work through ambiguity, and adapt your approach to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders
• Be a champion for user-centered design by partnering with researchers to test your solutions in front of users; and be willing to build lightweight prototype, conduct scrappy and quick user testing on your own if required
• 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
• Directly mentor and lead other designers
• Successfully partner with cross-functional UX peers and partners to build seamless experiences that work backwards from the customer