About the position
We're the Devices & Services Design Group at Amazon. Our team drives design innovation, delivering Echo, Fire TV, Fire Tablets, and more. We work on the Alexa app, designing on-the-go productivity and entertainment experiences. Together, we're meeting the future head on through our Devices Human Interface Guidelines and product strategies. We are seeking a UX Designer to help drive the vision, definition, and design of multi-modal experiences across various devices. In this role, you will significantly impact our product-level customer experience and design strategy. You'll deliver solutions for difficult design and technical problems, applying best practices to achieve optimal customer outcomes. Collaborating across teams, you'll incorporate both user needs and technical constraints into your designs. You'll improve and help adopt design patterns and processes, participate in cross-team reviews, and synthesize data to inform your solutions. Your strong communication skills will be crucial in conveying complex decisions to partners.
Responsibilities
- Design beautiful, useful, and desirable user interfaces and experiences in a team environment
- Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, and usability findings
- Use business requirements, user and market research to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
- Design the UI architecture, interface, and interaction flow of applications and experiences
- Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, click-throughs, and prototypes
- Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications and design patterns
- Develop and maintain documentation of customer behaviors, motivations, and daily habits
- Work with project managers to plan projects for effective delivery while maintaining high standards for design
- Be a passionate and effective advocate for design with non-design audiences
- Write effectively to communicate design rationales and benefits to Amazon customers
- Use analytics and data to drive design decision making to best serve our customers
Requirements
- 6+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, ProtoPie, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, or similar
Nice-to-haves
- Expertise in the design thinking process
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Experience with research and human-centered design with a portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience solving complex challenges with simple user-centered design solutions
- Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides
- Additional design skills in related fields, including motion design, animation, and prototyping
- Experience in designing interactions for voice-led devices
- Experience in designing cross platform experiences
- Ability to drive and close on design requirements independently
- Proficiency in presenting design work to user experience teams, product and engineering teams, and executives for review and feedback
- Working knowledge of the foundations of engineering principles and how design translates into code
- Proficiency with platform tools used by designers and engineers to build and deploy immersive experiences
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Equity options
- Sign-on payments
- Full range of employee benefits
