UX Designer, Amazon
Global Security Organization
$106-184k
Office located in Irvine, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$106-184k
Office located in Irvine, CA
1001+ employees
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
- Are you interested in being part of a team that is tasked with building and maintaining next generation software products that intersect cloud computing, machine learning, and IoT?
- Do you enjoy the challenge of building and managing innovative services?
- Do you want to make an impact at a global scale? Then you should join our team!
- We are looking for a passionate, results-oriented, and inventive UX Designer
- You excel through innovation, creativity, and attention to detail
- You are a proven strategic thinker and collaborator who flourishes in a large organization
- You sincerely believe that design is more than how something looks, but also how it feels and functions
- You enjoy great design debates and thrive on iterating based on customer feedback
- The ideal candidate will have excellent design, project management, problem solving, and communication skills and be comfortable interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels
- In addition, the ability to work backwards and think about building products from a customer perspective is crucial
- 3+ years of design experience
- 3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience prototyping (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash or Flash Catalyst, or Axure)
Desirable
- 2+ years of mass-market consumer web / mobile products experience
- Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
What the job involves
- This role is for a hands-on designer who can establish a vision and strategy for our experiences, while leading the delivery of wireframes and visual designs, prototypes and specs for experiences across all WWOSTech products
- Analyze customer problems and design delightful solutions with measurable impact
- Work closely with product and business teams to develop use cases and high-level requirements
- Create design artifacts like user flows, wireframes, visual mocks, and prototypes to communicate your ideas
- Develop and maintain detailed user-interface and interaction specifications
- Independently present work, socialize ideas, and manage stakeholder expectations
- Partner with technology teams to ensure we leverage the scale offered by our platform without compromising on core experience principles
- Measure the success and effectiveness of UX innovations
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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
Articles
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.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 306 more jobs at Amazon