Senior UX Designer, Amazon
Identity & Cloud Governance UX
$113-211.6k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$113-211.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of design experience
- 5+ years of industry experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar design-related role
- An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating a range design solutions
- Solid understanding of information architecture and interaction design
- Solid written and verbal communication skills; able to present strong rationale for design decisions to senior stakeholders
- Experience using data to influence product managers, design leadership, and engineering leadership on design solutions
- Track record of delivering effective design solutions
Desirable
- A bachelor's degree in interaction design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or related
- 10+ years of professional work experience as UX or product designer
- 3+ years of professional work experience as a UX or product designer, designing solutions for enterprise products
- Experience designing identity-related products
- Experience designing for developers and other technical users
- Experience gathering user data via usability studies, customer interviews, etc
- Ability to build prototypes in professional grade prototyping tools or HTML/JavaScript/CSS is a plus. Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace
What the job involves
- The AWS Identity & Cloud Governance (IDCG) UX team is seeking a talented User Experience Designer
- This designer will have a significant impact on our business as they lead the design for core AWS services
- The designer will work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, executives, and other designers, leading design throughout the strategy, design, and development life-cycle
- Understand and design solutions for AWS user needs and problems
- Work with product managers, engineers, and other designers to finalize and build solutions
- Develop and drive a forward-looking vision for the overall customer experience
- Learn and teach skills used to do the above
- A normal day as a designer on the AWS IDCG UX team could take many forms
- You might be talking directly with customers to understand their current experience, meeting with engineers to pitch them on a new idea, or working through the final fit-and-finish of a project ready for launch
- You could be leading our weekly team learning session, or critiquing your peer's design work or forward-looking UX-strategy document
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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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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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