Principal UX Designer, Amazon
Luna
$147.6-244k
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
$147.6-244k
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
- This is an exciting opportunity for a flexible and entrepreneurial individual who is comfortable operating with ambiguity
- You are a self-starter who brings original ideas and fresh approaches to each project you work on
- You are responsive, curious, and thrive in collaborative work environments
- 10+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Proficiency in Figma and modern design tools
Desirable
- Experience designing TV interfaces and directional (D-pad) inputs
- Experience in gaming, entertainment, e-commerce, or marketplaces
- Expertise in visual design, motion design, marketing design, information architecture
- Experience in planning and executing user testing and research
- Knowledge in accessibility best practices and inclusive design principles
- Experience in developing and maintaining design systems
- Experience working with and presenting to executive level leadership
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly design leader who is excited to work closely with a cross-functional team to create end to end customer flows, interaction design, and prototypes for new and existing experiences
- We are looking for a talented and experienced hands-on design leader who can establish a vision and strategy, scale their impact by empowering designers, and elevate the design quality of the entire team
- You will operate at all levels, diving deep into the details while providing strategic inputs for current and future iterations of the Luna product
- You will be working alongside a unique and gifted multidisciplinary team engaged in a fast-paced mission to define and deliver new product features
- Own multiple complex design initiatives across Luna, Amazon partner teams, and external partners
- Quickly and iteratively on create user flows, prototypes, and high fidelity mockups
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to balance business goals, technical constraints with design excellence
- Incorporate customer feedback, technical constraints, and usability findings into design
- Analyze metrics post-launch to inform design/UX optimization efforts
- High velocity decision-making under tight timelines
- Maintain design systems and guidelines for simple, consistent experiences across products and features
- Ability to work through ambiguity
- Committed to growing and mentoring others on the team
- Last but not least, have fun in the process!
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 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 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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