Amazon
Sr. UX Designer, Amazon Photos
Amazon, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127
Description
Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve, organize, share, and relive their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members and apps are available on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop, and Fire TV. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show.
We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of the service around the world and delight our customers with a great product. To help us do this, Amazon Photos is looking for a highly motivated, customer-focused Lead Senior UX Designer to drive engaging user experiences and push the limits of what customers expect from a modern photos service.
Who you are:
You are a senior designer with 6+ years of experience working on real products that people use every day. You love the creative process, are photos-obsessed and systems-thinking. You are an organized self-starter that can deal with ambiguity and are always on the look out for ways to improve the customer experience. You are an excellent collaborator and have no problem presenting - and defending - your ideas to other designers, product managers, engineers, and company leaders. You’re hungry to apply your superior user experience and information architecture skills, visual design flair, problem-solving abilities, and soft skill expertise. You understand the value of user testing and prototyping, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. Above all, you are passionate about solving real problems for real people through research, design, and iteration.
What you will do:
You will work with other members of the design and product teams to create interfaces that are beautiful, useful, and usable. You will use competitive analysis, customer feedback, app metrics, and usability findings to tailor your designs to the customer in order to best solve their problems. You will be responsible for developing your ideas from concept to completion, presenting them to stakeholders and leaders, and working directly with engineering leads to bring them to life.
Key job responsibilities
Use business requirements, usability findings and market research to develop scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings
Design conceptual wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, information architecture diagrams, interaction specifications, and functional prototypes
Develop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration and efficiency on Amazon projects
Know your customer and delight them with your inventions
Partner with your teammates in Product and Engineering, and collaborate on your ideas
Use your unique maker abilities to express a vision for the best customer experience, one which builds on the strengths of your team mates' contributions
Communicate your design decisions to your peers in Design, Product, and Engineering, as well as to the leadership team
Work closely with your Product and Engineering partners to ensure that the design vision is being honored as the timeline progresses and context evolves (new customer insights, tech limits, priority changes) until it launches
Follow up on your live designs with testing and iteration
Have fun! Design is a dream job and you should be doing your very best, most rewarding work
A day in the life
Ideally, you will be engaged in designing for the customer whenever possible.
If you are in meetings, they should be with people who can help you make decisions about your design. Otherwise, you are encouraged to decline.
Day-to-day, you will likely have ongoing in-person and virtual conversations happening with a group of designers, product managers, and engineers who might need your opinion or ideas, and vice versa.
About the team
We are all grown-ups, respected equally. We build our relationships with each other on thoughtful, honest feedback. If someone is struggling, help them by providing respectful, timely feedback.
Nobody will have the same depth of knowledge, experience and domain expertise you have for your current work. As the owner of the experience, you will have a leader who clears a path for you, and a team of peers to rely on for dialog and support.
The Design team meets weekly to share our work with one another, share good news, and laugh a little. Sometimes a lot.
Basic Qualifications
6+ years of design experience
Have an available online portfolio
Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, Sketch, ProtoPie, Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with UX design of complex workflows
Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
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.
Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve, organize, share, and relive their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members and apps are available on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop, and Fire TV. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show.
We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of the service around the world and delight our customers with a great product. To help us do this, Amazon Photos is looking for a highly motivated, customer-focused Lead Senior UX Designer to drive engaging user experiences and push the limits of what customers expect from a modern photos service.
Who you are:
You are a senior designer with 6+ years of experience working on real products that people use every day. You love the creative process, are photos-obsessed and systems-thinking. You are an organized self-starter that can deal with ambiguity and are always on the look out for ways to improve the customer experience. You are an excellent collaborator and have no problem presenting - and defending - your ideas to other designers, product managers, engineers, and company leaders. You’re hungry to apply your superior user experience and information architecture skills, visual design flair, problem-solving abilities, and soft skill expertise. You understand the value of user testing and prototyping, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. Above all, you are passionate about solving real problems for real people through research, design, and iteration.
What you will do:
You will work with other members of the design and product teams to create interfaces that are beautiful, useful, and usable. You will use competitive analysis, customer feedback, app metrics, and usability findings to tailor your designs to the customer in order to best solve their problems. You will be responsible for developing your ideas from concept to completion, presenting them to stakeholders and leaders, and working directly with engineering leads to bring them to life.
Key job responsibilities
Use business requirements, usability findings and market research to develop scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings
Design conceptual wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, information architecture diagrams, interaction specifications, and functional prototypes
Develop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration and efficiency on Amazon projects
Know your customer and delight them with your inventions
Partner with your teammates in Product and Engineering, and collaborate on your ideas
Use your unique maker abilities to express a vision for the best customer experience, one which builds on the strengths of your team mates' contributions
Communicate your design decisions to your peers in Design, Product, and Engineering, as well as to the leadership team
Work closely with your Product and Engineering partners to ensure that the design vision is being honored as the timeline progresses and context evolves (new customer insights, tech limits, priority changes) until it launches
Follow up on your live designs with testing and iteration
Have fun! Design is a dream job and you should be doing your very best, most rewarding work
A day in the life
Ideally, you will be engaged in designing for the customer whenever possible.
If you are in meetings, they should be with people who can help you make decisions about your design. Otherwise, you are encouraged to decline.
Day-to-day, you will likely have ongoing in-person and virtual conversations happening with a group of designers, product managers, and engineers who might need your opinion or ideas, and vice versa.
About the team
We are all grown-ups, respected equally. We build our relationships with each other on thoughtful, honest feedback. If someone is struggling, help them by providing respectful, timely feedback.
Nobody will have the same depth of knowledge, experience and domain expertise you have for your current work. As the owner of the experience, you will have a leader who clears a path for you, and a team of peers to rely on for dialog and support.
The Design team meets weekly to share our work with one another, share good news, and laugh a little. Sometimes a lot.
Basic Qualifications
6+ years of design experience
Have an available online portfolio
Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, Sketch, ProtoPie, Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with UX design of complex workflows
Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
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.