Amazon
Senior UX Designer
Amazon, New York, New York, us, 10261
Description
We are looking for a seasoned 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 teams and our external partners at marquee brands to help integrate Prime experiences into their Direct-to-Consumer offerings 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, and Writers, 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.
If this sounds interesting and motivating, we would love to talk to you!
Key job responsibilities
Ideate, build and maintain scalable design patterns that can be applied across a variety of e-commerce implementations
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
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
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
Mentor and lead other designers to help scale the impact you can make
About the team
Buy with Prime is helping people reimagine the way they shop. Our vision is to enable every entrepreneur in the world to reach every customer in the world through every channel they can imagine. Buy with Prime is a new way to extend Prime shopping benefits—including fast, free shipping, seamless checkout experience, and free returns—to merchants’ own online stores, ultimately increasing selection for Prime members. Buy with Prime is an exciting next step in our mission to help merchants of all sizes grow their business—whether on Amazon or beyond.
Basic Qualifications
10+ 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
Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
Ability to work on and adapt patterns for different platforms.
Known for high quality designs, both conceptually and in execution working across interaction, visual and product design.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with UX design of complex workflows
Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
Experience designing customer facing retail products
Familiarity with developing and managing design systems
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $211,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
We are looking for a seasoned 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 teams and our external partners at marquee brands to help integrate Prime experiences into their Direct-to-Consumer offerings 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, and Writers, 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.
If this sounds interesting and motivating, we would love to talk to you!
Key job responsibilities
Ideate, build and maintain scalable design patterns that can be applied across a variety of e-commerce implementations
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
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
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
Mentor and lead other designers to help scale the impact you can make
About the team
Buy with Prime is helping people reimagine the way they shop. Our vision is to enable every entrepreneur in the world to reach every customer in the world through every channel they can imagine. Buy with Prime is a new way to extend Prime shopping benefits—including fast, free shipping, seamless checkout experience, and free returns—to merchants’ own online stores, ultimately increasing selection for Prime members. Buy with Prime is an exciting next step in our mission to help merchants of all sizes grow their business—whether on Amazon or beyond.
Basic Qualifications
10+ 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
Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
Ability to work on and adapt patterns for different platforms.
Known for high quality designs, both conceptually and in execution working across interaction, visual and product design.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with UX design of complex workflows
Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
Experience designing customer facing retail products
Familiarity with developing and managing design systems
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $211,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.