Senior UX Designer, Amazon
Kindle Reader Experience
$127.1-211.6k
Office located in San Jose, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Posted today
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
$127.1-211.6k
Office located in San Jose, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- You think strategically and successfully collaborate with product managers, engineers, executives, and other designers, leading the design vision and project deliverables from sketches to working prototypes
- You explore and translate complex interactions into simple, engaging solutions
- You effectively communicate those solutions, both verbally and through sketches, user flows, wireframes, hi-fi mocks and functional prototypes
- You are responsive, flexible and able to succeed in a fast-paced, collaborative environment without supervision
- You are a systems-thinking, detail-oriented designer who wants to build and ship on a global scale
- 8+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
Desirable
- Experience designing in an agile development environment
- Experience with UX design of complex workflows
- Experience working with stakeholders to plan and execute programs that are strategic in nature
What the job involves
- This role focuses on the Kindle Scribe device and will be helping to develop exciting new features for our super passionate customers
- The person who will be successful in this role is excited about working with emerging technologies and thinks about design across hardware devices and surfaces
- Create user-centered designs and workflows by considering customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings
- Use business requirements and customer research to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
- Design the visual style, interface, and interaction flow of applications and experiences
- Create conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, click-throughs, and prototypes
- Define and maintain detailed user-interface specifications and design patterns
- Develop streamlined prioritization and work processes in collaboration with product and engineering partners
- Present design work to the design team, product stakeholders, and Amazon executives
- A day in the life
- You partner deeply with product owners and technical partners focussing on developing
- You roll up your sleeves and build a prototype and conduct guerrilla user testing in the cafe
- You attend a readout of an long form user research project updating our understanding of the differences between customers who read on their phones versus an E-Reader
- You lead a design critique with our team discussing the token taxonomy for a new component in our design system
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 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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