User Experience Designer, Amazon

• We are searching for a passionate and experienced Senior User Experience Designer who can utilize their design talents to ensure that Audible continues to lead through product innovation
• You use your design skills to fi nd solutions that transform knowledge of the customer into compelling product features and services. Your sensitivity to customer experience ensures we produce a premium product that delivers results for the business and delight to our customers
• You hold a fundamental belief that understanding customer needs creates the opportunity for product innovation. You actively pursue ways to expand, evangelize, and share your customer knowledge, ensuring the work you and the team produces meets customers needs
• A discerning eye helps you hone your craft, and your constructive feedback helps others grow in a safe environment. You embrace failure as learning and fuel for creative problem-solving. Your hunger for expanding your design skills ensures that you are contributing to the advancement of the entire team
• 4+ years of experience as a user experience designer, product designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role
• Experience designing and delivering digital products that align customer needs and business goals; illustrated with a portfolio
• Experience in a range of design approaches, methods, and tools that you use to plan and estimate complex projects

Desirable

• User Experience Design is at the heart of Audible’s goal to be customer obsessed
• The UX team works ceaselessly to transformdeep customer insights into delightful and innovative product experiences that drive business results and customer satisfaction
• As part of the Creator Products team you will create foundational experiences that empower Audible to nurture, scale, and grow relationships with creators and develop world class spoken word content
• In this role, you will work closely with product, engineering and the business to modernize Audible’s core content pipeline, enabling the publishing of Audible’s world class spoken word content
• You will work embedded in teams, with your core users and stakeholders enabling short, quick feedback loops and the ability to align and design iteratively
• You will help identify areas to raise the experience bar by crafting refined user interface elements, uncovering and fixing usability issues, and identifying new innovative ways of supporting creators across our products
• Create elegant and intuitive user experiences by incorporating user insights, business requirements and technical constraints
• Lead the planning and strategic phases of a project. Proactively pitch new ideas, backed by a strong, well-articulated rationale
• Quickly and iteratively create process flows, wireframes, prototypes, throughout the design process
• Independently deliver UX solutions for problems of large scope and complexity. Work through ambiguity, and adapt your approach to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders
• Be a champion for user-centered design by partnering with researchers to test your solutions in front of users; and be willing to build lightweight prototype, conduct scrappy and quick user testing on your own if required
• Present design work to UX, Product, and Engineering teams, as well as stakeholders and executive leadership
• Contribute to user experience design guidelines and development best practices and standards at Amazon Design Community