Sr UX Designer, Kindle Reader

About the position

Look around the next time you're on a plane, in a bus, or out at a cafe - chances are you'll see more than one person using Kindle's apps for iOS, Android, and Fire tablet or one of our dedicated E-reader devices. With millions of active users, and top-rated apps on all major platforms, this is your opportunity to join a team shipping exciting new features and class-leading experiences at scale to a dedicated and passionate customer base. The Kindle Design Studio is seeking a talented, creative, and customer-obsessed Senior User Experience designer to join our team. A day in the life Love creating high-bar, high-visibility UX and UI? Interested in the unique challenges and opportunities of designing for Kindle reading experiences? We offer a creative and ownership-centric work environment where you'll be driving a key part of the core Kindle experience as you help Kindle deliver on the promise of making every book in every language available on demand, everywhere customers want to read. You are strategic and highly collaborative and will work closely with a team of passionate designers, user researchers, product managers, and software developers to create the interaction flows, visual style, and assets for new and existing applications and experiences.

Requirements

• 8+ years of UX designer or interaction designer experience
• 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
• Experience with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax

Nice-to-haves

• Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes
• Experience with UX design of complex workflows

Benefits

• Equity
• Sign-on payments
• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Other benefits