Amazon
UX Designer , North American Stores Design
Amazon, Santa Monica, California, United States, 90403
Description
As a Sr. UX Designer you will craft simple, fluid, and beautiful experiences that help customers discover and purchase the best Deals & Promotions across Amazon. You have an inventor’s spirit, highly refined aesthetic sensibilities and a fine-tuned ability to contextually communicate the right thing in the right place at the right time to customers. You are obsessed about customer experience; you never settle for good enough, and continually inspire those around you to do better for the customer. You love to dive into unknown territory and invent simple, elegant solutions to complex challenges. Your work will focus on mobile first, but you should be passionate about expanding features to create true multi-device experiences that move with the customer from one device to another.
The North American Stores Design team is a group of highly curious designers, researchers, and prototypers working collaboratively to bring products to life and deliver innovation at incredible scale across all devices and touch-points. Our team is excited to welcome a new creative and driven designer to join us as we build best-in-class experiences for millions of people around the world.
We care about your career growth too. Once you join the team, you and your manager will jointly craft a career plan and you'll review it regularly to ensure you're on track to meet your goals. Whether your goals are to explore new technologies, take on bigger opportunities, or get to the next level, we'll help you get there.
Responsibilities
Use business requirements, market research and customer feedback to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
Design conceptual sketches, wireframe information architecture, high-fidelity mockups, and interaction specifications
Develop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration and efficiency
Develop and maintain detailed design patterns that scale for your team and influence other designers
Lead brainstorming sessions and give presentations to drive design, demonstrating features and flows
Understand and respond to data (metric tests, usability studies), using that to inform future design
Key job responsibilities
Use business requirements, market research and customer feedback to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
Design conceptual sketches, wireframe information architecture, high-fidelity mockups, and interaction specifications
Develop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration and efficiency
Develop and maintain detailed design patterns that scale for your team and influence other designers
Lead brainstorming sessions and give presentations to drive design, demonstrating features and flows
Understand and respond to data (metric tests, usability studies), using that to inform future design
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of design experience
3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer experience
Have an available online portfolio
Experience prototyping (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash or Flash Catalyst, or Axure)
Preferred Qualifications
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
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 $106,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $184,000/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.
As a Sr. UX Designer you will craft simple, fluid, and beautiful experiences that help customers discover and purchase the best Deals & Promotions across Amazon. You have an inventor’s spirit, highly refined aesthetic sensibilities and a fine-tuned ability to contextually communicate the right thing in the right place at the right time to customers. You are obsessed about customer experience; you never settle for good enough, and continually inspire those around you to do better for the customer. You love to dive into unknown territory and invent simple, elegant solutions to complex challenges. Your work will focus on mobile first, but you should be passionate about expanding features to create true multi-device experiences that move with the customer from one device to another.
The North American Stores Design team is a group of highly curious designers, researchers, and prototypers working collaboratively to bring products to life and deliver innovation at incredible scale across all devices and touch-points. Our team is excited to welcome a new creative and driven designer to join us as we build best-in-class experiences for millions of people around the world.
We care about your career growth too. Once you join the team, you and your manager will jointly craft a career plan and you'll review it regularly to ensure you're on track to meet your goals. Whether your goals are to explore new technologies, take on bigger opportunities, or get to the next level, we'll help you get there.
Responsibilities
Use business requirements, market research and customer feedback to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
Design conceptual sketches, wireframe information architecture, high-fidelity mockups, and interaction specifications
Develop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration and efficiency
Develop and maintain detailed design patterns that scale for your team and influence other designers
Lead brainstorming sessions and give presentations to drive design, demonstrating features and flows
Understand and respond to data (metric tests, usability studies), using that to inform future design
Key job responsibilities
Use business requirements, market research and customer feedback to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
Design conceptual sketches, wireframe information architecture, high-fidelity mockups, and interaction specifications
Develop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration and efficiency
Develop and maintain detailed design patterns that scale for your team and influence other designers
Lead brainstorming sessions and give presentations to drive design, demonstrating features and flows
Understand and respond to data (metric tests, usability studies), using that to inform future design
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of design experience
3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer experience
Have an available online portfolio
Experience prototyping (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash or Flash Catalyst, or Axure)
Preferred Qualifications
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
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 $106,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $184,000/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.