Amazon
Sr. UX Designer, Amazon Photos
Amazon, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127
Job ID: 2628545 | Amazon.com Services LLCAmazon Photos helps consumers preserve, 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.We have been growing as a business and now we are growing as a team, looking to add a Senior UX Designer that will focus on designing, defining, and delivering beautiful, useful and customer-centered Photos experiences across Echo Show and Fire TV.Who you are:
You love the creative process. You’re a photos-obsessed, systems-thinking Senior UX Designer who craves to craft engaging, elegantly usable experiences and interactions. You’re hungry to apply your superior user experience and information architecture skills, visual design flair, problem-solving abilities, and soft skill expertise. You balance your passion for inspired, compelling, elegant, simple designs with a highly analytical nature, precise execution, and a relentless drive to design, build and deliver end-to-end experiences.Key job responsibilities
Use business requirements, usability findings and market research to develop scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirementsCreate user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findingsDesign conceptual wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, information architecture diagrams, interaction specifications, and functional prototypesDevelop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration and efficiency on Amazon projectsKnow your customer and delight them with your inventionsPartner with your teammates in Product and Engineering, and collaborate on your ideasUse your unique maker abilities to express a vision for the best customer experience, one which builds on the strengths of your team mates' contributionsCommunicate your design decisions to your peers in Design, Product, and Engineering, as well as to the leadership teamWork 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 launchesFollow up on your live designs with testing and iterationHave fun! Design is a dream job and you should be doing your very best, most rewarding workA 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
8+ years of design experienceHave an available online portfolioExperience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, ProtoPie, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, or similarPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processesExperience with UX design of complex workflowsExperience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standardsExperience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexityAmazon 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.
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You love the creative process. You’re a photos-obsessed, systems-thinking Senior UX Designer who craves to craft engaging, elegantly usable experiences and interactions. You’re hungry to apply your superior user experience and information architecture skills, visual design flair, problem-solving abilities, and soft skill expertise. You balance your passion for inspired, compelling, elegant, simple designs with a highly analytical nature, precise execution, and a relentless drive to design, build and deliver end-to-end experiences.Key job responsibilities
Use business requirements, usability findings and market research to develop scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirementsCreate user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findingsDesign conceptual wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, information architecture diagrams, interaction specifications, and functional prototypesDevelop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration and efficiency on Amazon projectsKnow your customer and delight them with your inventionsPartner with your teammates in Product and Engineering, and collaborate on your ideasUse your unique maker abilities to express a vision for the best customer experience, one which builds on the strengths of your team mates' contributionsCommunicate your design decisions to your peers in Design, Product, and Engineering, as well as to the leadership teamWork 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 launchesFollow up on your live designs with testing and iterationHave fun! Design is a dream job and you should be doing your very best, most rewarding workA 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
8+ years of design experienceHave an available online portfolioExperience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, ProtoPie, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, or similarPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processesExperience with UX design of complex workflowsExperience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standardsExperience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexityAmazon 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.
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