Amazon.com Services LLC is hiring: Sr. UX Designer, Amazon Photos in Seattle

Job Overview: Amazon 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. We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of the service around the world and delight our customers with a great product.

We are 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 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:

1. Use business requirements, usability findings, and market research to develop scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements.
2. Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings.
3. Design conceptual wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, information architecture diagrams, interaction specifications, and functional prototypes.
4. Develop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration and efficiency on Amazon projects.
5. Know your customer and delight them with your inventions.
6. Partner with your teammates in Product and Engineering, and collaborate on your ideas.
7. Use your unique maker abilities to express a vision for the best customer experience.
8. Communicate your design decisions to your peers in Design, Product, and Engineering, as well as to the leadership team.
9. Work closely with your Product and Engineering partners to ensure that the design vision is honored as the timeline progresses.
10. Follow up on your live designs with testing and iteration.
11. 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.

The Design team meets weekly to share our work with one another, share good news, and laugh a little. Sometimes a lot.

Minimum Requirements:

1. 8+ years of design experience.
2. Have an available online portfolio.
3. Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, ProtoPie, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, or similar.
4. Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes.
5. Experience with UX design of complex workflows.
6. Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards.
7. 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.

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.

This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.