UX Designer, Buy with Prime

About the position

We are looking for a UX Designer who excels at crafting thoughtful consumer-facing experiences within the Amazon's Buy with Prime design team. Buy with Prime allows millions of U.S.-based Prime members to shop directly from brands' online stores with the convenient and trusted experience they expect from Amazon. In collaboration with our partner brands, we want to ensure that the Prime experience seamlessly enhances carefully curated shopping journeys, while aligning with their brand values. You will work with our internal and external partners at global e-commerce platforms and marquee brands to create delightful consumer-facing shopping experience while upholding the Prime bar and adhering to their brand philosophy. To be successful in this role, you must be great at creative problem solving, be adept at storytelling through visuals, have expertise in system's design thinking, and enjoy designing elegant e-commerce experiences with attention to micro-interactions. You will not only help us scale our design patterns but work with leaders at well-known brands to achieve harmony between their shopping experiences and our solutions. Experience with accessibility is paramount since at the scale at which we operate, we strive to offer a delightful experience to all our customers. Our team consists of highly specialized Interaction Designers, Visual Designers, Researchers, collaborating with internal and external teams to deliver innovative customer-facing experiences to Prime members. You will also work closely with a cross-functional group of Product Managers, Engineers, Sales, Business Development and organizational leaders to ideate and deliver on the best possible experience for our customers and partners.

Responsibilities

• Create scalable wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs to communicate concepts through different phases of a product's lifecycle
• Identify, design and document reusable patterns that help us scale our design philosophy across integrations
• Drive consensus on design decisions through application of usability heuristics and data
• Champion and partner on key research studies that will help us better understand user behaviors, needs and motivations while translating insights into actionable design solutions
• Incorporate system limitations, scaling factors, and architectural constraints in your designs while making appropriate trade-offs
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and external brand partners across engineering, product management, design and research functions
• Build and communicate empathy for the end user, aligning cross-functional peers on similar goals
• Deliver solutions for difficult design and technical problems
• Be resourceful and creative to overcome obstacles and turn challenges into opportunities

Requirements

• 5+ years of design experience
• 3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI)
• Knowledge of usability principles and techniques

Nice-to-haves

• 2+ years of mass-market consumer web / mobile products experience
• Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs

Benefits

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