Senior UX Designer, PXT People Engagement Experience

$127,100 - $211,600/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Senior

Seattle, WA

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About the position

The Senior UX Designer on the People Engagement Experience (PEX) team at Amazon will be responsible for designing employee product experiences on a global scale. This role involves collaborating with product and engineering partners to enhance user experience for Amazonians, driving operational excellence, and influencing product strategy. The designer will work in a fast-paced environment, tackling complex design challenges and championing user-centered design culture.

Responsibilities

• Assume ownership for the end-to-end product experiences and features across desktop, mobile and more.
• Manage the user experience design of multiple mid-to-large-sized programs.
• Contribute to the vision for the organization and influence product strategy and roadmaps.
• Lead the discovery, strategize concept design and launch phases of a project.
• Work through complex design solutions for ambiguous problems where requirements, customer needs, and technical feasibility may not be initially defined.
• Champion user-centered design culture and drive creative process with cross-functional partners.
• Model behavior that exemplifies Amazon Leadership Principles in their team.
• Provide coaching and feedback to junior Independent Contributors and enhance leadership capability.
• Create and drive adoption of design guidelines, mechanisms, best practices, process and tools.

Requirements

• 6+ years of design experience
• Expertise with standard design tools such as Figma, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop).
• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating exceptional end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns across desktop and mobile devices.

Nice-to-haves

• A bachelor's degree in interaction design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or related degree
• Experience in delivering design solutions with measurable impact for projects of large scope and complexity
• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills
• Experience creating prototypes or highly detailed wireframes for complex web applications
• Ability to deliver a long-term UX vision with an iterative plan
• A desire and ability to work with a diverse and talented team
• Demonstrated history of acquiring user data through usability studies and user research.

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and other benefits
• Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation package