Senior UX Designer, Amazon
Alexa Daily Essentials
$127.1-211.6k
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$127.1-211.6k
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- You must excel at communicating your designs effectively to the larger team and driving that vision into solid design deliverables
- We’re looking for people who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of ownership, and want to have fun while they make history
- 7+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), design or equivalent professional experience
- High proficiency in a variety of design and prototype tools such as Sketch, Invision, Figma, Framer, Azure, and the Adobe Creative Suite; command of technologies (web, Android, iOS, etc.)
- Experience in conducting user research or in partnership with a UX Researcher
- Experience crafting designs for voice interfaces is ideal, but not required. A strong interest in voice technology is a must
Desirable
- 7+ years of professional work experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar UX-related role, on consumer products
- An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating user-centered design solutions and UI design expertise
- Experience crafting designs for devices with natural language input
- Ability to extract complex concepts and quickly turn around rigorous flows and mockups reflecting a range of options
- Ability to manage ambiguity, work autonomously, and multi-task in an agile environment A proven track record of insight based strategy leadership
- Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides
- Deep understanding and leadership on driving design culture into organizations
What the job involves
- The Alexa Daily Essentials team is seeking a Senior User Experience Designer to create experiences that leverage the power of Alexa on Echo devices with screens, mobile apps (Alexa App), and other devices
- This role will be focused on Home Productivity Essentials, improving how Alexa helps customers manage their daily household habits and activities - from calendar, timers, and alarms, to staying on top news topics and meal planning
- You will work side-by-side with conversation designers, user researchers, product, and engineering to identify, define, and implement solutions that raise the bar on the Alexa customer experience
- Create world-class, user-centered designs through consideration of market research, business requirements, customer feedback, and usability study findings
- Demonstrate leadership in driving design processes into the organization that help refine strategy
- Translate business requirements into use cases and high-level customer experience requirements
- Design the architecture, interface, and interaction flow of voice experiences, mobile applications, and embedded screens
- Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, and prototypes
- Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications
- Present design work to the user experience team, product team, and leadership for review and feedback
- Work with our usability and data science teams to assess and optimize new and existing features
- Develop high level, long-term strategy for Alexa Home Productivity products
- Collaborate with other design team members on Alexa Domain experiences, frameworks, process, and best practices
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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