Senior UX Designer, ART19

About the position

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Product Designer to join our team at ART19, Amazon's SaaS platform for podcast creators, publishers, and advertisers. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our leadership to define the strategic design vision and drive innovation for our industry-leading platform. ART19's mission is to create the premier platform for all aspects of podcasting, catering to a diverse range of users - from independent creators to large enterprises. Your focus will be on developing a seamless, intuitive, and empowering experience that enables our users to succeed. If you have a passion for designing exceptional digital products and a track record of driving tangible impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences while planning and defining strategy for the direction of future experiences, all the way from concept to final implementation.
• Clearly and persuasively communicate, specify, and describe design concepts, solutions and needs to senior executives.
• Quickly iterate on multiple interactive design solutions and work through details.
• Advocate for your design solutions by leveraging diverse inputs that influenced the design decisions including customer and business goals, usage data, and research findings.
• Develop high level and/or detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Deliver work that's not only customer-friendly, aesthetically engaging, but which also produces results.
• Work collaboratively with engineers and product managers to create amazing user experiences that delight customers.
• Assess and optimize the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics.
• Contribute to the group's shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies.
• Use humor, creativity, and positive energy to maintain personal and team momentum.

Requirements

• 7+ years of design experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), a related field, or 4+ years of additional experience

Nice-to-haves

• Have an online portfolio or samples of work on resume, demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns, across desktop and mobile devices
• Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• You have a good foundation of code and engineering capabilities and are able to execute lightweight coding of prototypes and some front-end work.

Benefits

• Equity options
• Sign-on payments
• Full range of medical benefits
• Financial benefits