Senior UX Designer, Identity & Cloud Governance UX Job at Amazon in New York

Senior UX Designer, Identity & Cloud Governance UX

The AWS Identity & Cloud Governance (IDCG) UX team is seeking a talented User Experience Designer. This designer will have a significant impact on our business as they lead the design for core AWS services. The designer will work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, executives, and other designers, leading design throughout the strategy, design, and development life-cycle. Please reach out to Erin Westfall (HM) with your resume to express interest.

Key job responsibilities:

1. Understand and design solutions for AWS user needs and problems.
2. Work with product managers, engineers, and other designers to finalize and build solutions.
3. Develop and drive a forward-looking vision for the overall customer experience.
4. Learn and teach skills used to do the above.

A day in the life:

A normal day as a designer on the AWS IDCG UX team could take many forms. You might be talking directly with customers to understand their current experience, meeting with engineers to pitch them on a new idea, or working through the final fit-and-finish of a project ready for launch. You could be leading our weekly team learning session, or critiquing your peer's design work or forward-looking UX-strategy document. Whatever you are doing, you'll have the opportunity to grow your skillset as a designer and influence the experience for millions of AWS users around the world.

About the team:

The AWS IDCG UX team has a core mission to balance security and usability in the core identity, access, and governance experiences in AWS. We ensure AWS is both secure and usable. We educate the rest of the AWS design community how to design for, interact with, and integrate with these services, tools, and concepts. Our team culture fosters an environment of learning, collaboration, and driving the vision for the future of our products.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. 6+ years of design experience.
2. 5+ years of industry experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar design-related role.
3. An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating a range of design solutions.
4. Solid understanding of information architecture and interaction design.
5. Solid written and verbal communication skills; able to present strong rationale for design decisions to senior stakeholders.
6. Experience using data to influence product managers, design leadership, and engineering leadership on design solutions.
7. Track record of delivering effective design solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. A bachelor's degree in interaction design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or related.
2. 10+ years of professional work experience as UX or product designer.
3. 3+ years of professional work experience as a UX or product designer, designing solutions for enterprise products.
4. Experience designing identity-related products.
5. Experience designing for developers and other technical users.
6. Experience gathering user data via usability studies, customer interviews, etc.
7. Ability to build prototypes in professional grade prototyping tools or HTML/JavaScript/CSS is a plus.

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, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.

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