Senior UX Design Lead / Principal Designer, Amazon
AWS Supply Chain
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of design experience
- Experience with best practices for User Interface Design, Information Architecture, and Interaction Design
- Experience in life cycle design projects from design strategy through execution
Desirable
- Experience providing and effectively communicating strategic and tactical recommendations based on data
- Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Axure, Keynote, and InVision
What the job involves
- As part of the AWS Applications group, we’re building a new and exciting category of products in Supply Chain Management from the ground-up at a global scale
- This is a unique opportunity to work on a startup team within AWS to build something from scratch in a fast-paced environment with tremendous opportunity for career growth
- Take an ownership role to define, design and build new products by transforming traditional solutions
- Manage the creation of a Design system and collaborate with a team of UX designers, researchers, design technologists, product managers and software developers
- Have direct impact on hundreds of thousands of users of AWS services
- Work with the latest tech including Gen AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain and IoT to tackle real world problems
- We are looking for a Principal UX Design Lead with a heavy focus on interface/visual product design to help define and design a number of software application services as well as a new design system
- You will lead conceptualization, prototyping, and detailed design to deliver customer-obsessed digital product designs while effectively partnering with product and tech teams
- Drives a high level of focus and excellence with a talented and opinionated team
- Leads with passion and conviction, with the innate ability to inspire others to feel the same
- Raises the bar on design quality standards, while focusing on the overarching portfolio's design strategy
- Exhibits excellent judgment in negotiating challenging issues that drive product progress
- Communicates effectively within the team, across peer groups, and upwardly to senior leadership levels
- Plays a visible and driving role in the Design community at large, with unique ideas on creative process, problem-solving, design leadership, and similar areas
- Defines, develops, and socializes a clear vision for design innovation and big thinking, while maintaining speed of delivery
- Cultivates a culture of using data and customer insights to confidently defend design solutions with senior leaders
- Applies systems-level design thinking to drive scalable solutions from the team
- Develops processes and identifies opportunities for improvement to drive quality and efficiency, enabling the team to achieve more than they otherwise could
- Supports a multi-disciplinary team, serving as a role model, mentor, and motivator in creating a diverse and inclusive working environment
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
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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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