Principal UX Designer, Amazon Alexa AI

Amazon strives to be the world’s most customer-centric company, where customers can research and purchase anything they might want online or offline. We set big goals and are looking for people who can help us reach and exceed them. The Amazon Device and Services team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including Kindle eReaders, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Echo, Ring, Blink, Eero, Halo, Kuiper and Zoox. We are also the home of Alexa, a cloud-based intelligent voice assistant, to provide information, answer questions, play music, control your smart home and much more. Alexa is integrated into many of our products and partner products and many thousands of devices work with Alexa.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead high priority design projects that are often high-stakes, ambiguous and complex in nature.
• Foster a customer-obsessed design culture by sharing best practices, evangelizing design principles and influencing product strategy.
• Define, develop and socialize a clear vision for design innovation and big thinking while not sacrificing speed of delivery.
• Provide leadership and design direction, influencing across teams and giving thoughtful, detailed and actionable design feedback.
• Promote collaboration and facilitate communication with stakeholders at all levels and across diverse disciplines and geographies.
• Work cross-functionally to drive elegant design solutions from early concept through final implementation and iteration.
• Use data and customer insights to confidently share design solutions with senior leaders.
• Use systems-level design thinking to drive design solutions from your team that scale.
• Present design work to executive leadership and other senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10 years of design experience.
• Have an available online portfolio.
• Mastery of design thinking methodologies to lead teams toward user-centered outcomes.

Benefits

• The base pay for this position ranges from $131,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $244,000/year in our highest geographic market.
• 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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Boston, MA, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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