UX Designer, Amazon Delivery Experience

About the position

Amazon's ADX (Amazon Delivery Experience) team is seeking a skilled UX Designer to join their multidisciplinary design studio. The ADX team is responsible for envisioning and delivering end-to-end solutions across the ecosystem of products that power Amazon's global Transportation, Shipping, and Delivery Services. As a UX Designer on ADX's Middle Mile team, you will play a crucial role in enabling the transportation of goods by creating products for both internal and third-party customers. Your human-centered design process will leverage customer insights, data, UX methodologies, and accessibility to develop innovative experiences. Working closely with product managers, engineers, and executive leaders, you will create elegant and simple solutions that drive product decisions and roadmaps. Your strong UX skills and deep knowledge of standard web and mobile components and patterns will be instrumental in raising the bar on design and front-end solutions at Amazon. This is an opportunity to be part of a multi-functional team of design and development professionals focused on building a beautiful and easy-to-use system that saves our partners time. If you have a demonstrable track record of success delivering high-quality design system solutions at scale, we encourage you to apply. Join us as we innovate, deliver, and influence the future of logistics and transportation.

Responsibilities

• Plan and propose innovative solutions for a wide variety of product design challenges including, but not limited to: mobile, responsive web, and person-to-person interactions.
• Lead the design for improvements of existing experiences and wholly new experiences while planning and defining strategy for the direction of future iterations.
• Quickly iterate on multiple interactive design solutions and work through details.
• Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context the inputs that influenced the design decisions including business and user goals, demographic and usage data, and research findings.
• Develop high level and/or detailed storyboards, mock-ups, interaction flows, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Deliver work that's user-friendly, aesthetically engaging, and also produces results.
• Work alongside engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the production cycle.
• Assess and optimize the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics.
• Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications.
• Present design work to multiple teams and senior leadership for review and feedback.
• Contribute to the group's shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies.

Requirements

• 3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer experience.
• Have an available online portfolio.
• Experience acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps.
• Experience in delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer.
• Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, or similar.
• Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and design.
• Knowledge of usability principles and techniques.

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.