Description

Do you have passion for building exceptional experiences for our customers? Have you demonstrated pioneering product design? Are equally strong at concept and execution? Can you make new interaction so intuitive and easy-to-use it feels familiar? Can you collaborate with a cross-functional team to deliver innovative results?

Alexa Shopping seeks a Senior Designer to lead product design development for key areas of our business. Our team is at the intersection of emerging technology and core capabilities Amazon's customers know and trust. Daily we are defining new interaction models which will reach customers at scale. The ideal candidate has designed global products that are simple, intuitive, and delightful. They constantly seek to understand customer needs, then translate those needs into specific UX and UI. Collaboration is in their DNA, and they also take a leadership role, prioritizing, driving decisions, and communicating clearly through delivery.

Responsibilities
Deliver design artifacts to communicate CX. Identify and create design at appropriate fidelity. To this end, develop conceptual models, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to communicate both high-level design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors.
Collaborate in a cross-functional team to deliver results. Work closely with product managers, hardware, software and firmware developers, and other designers to define and produce innovative solutions to customer problems.
Contribute to the customer experience roadmap. Define features across applicable devices and locales, for near and long-term delivery.
Use behavioral and research data to support your design. Substantiate your work with quantitative, behavioral data, customer feedback, and usability findings.
Define patterns. Develop and maintain specifications others can apply to scale.
Advocate for and follow customer-centered design. Present to business and design leadership, and effectively advocate for the customer in a corporate environment. Foster shared understanding of the customer needs and how design, technical, and business intersect to meet them.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Portfolio demonstrating past work experience and relevant, customer experience design
Minimum 10 years of professional design experience
Expertise in UX and UI: Interaction, Visual, and Motion Design
Expertise in global product development with hardware and software
Ability to rapidly iterate, delivering wireframes, mocks, and prototypes which approximate the customer experience
Ability to scope design initiatives, manage, and prioritize work items
Excellent communication, presentation, and analytical skills
Expertise integrating design with technical development
Ability to work autonomously, and multi-task in an agile environment
Ability to handle complexity and manage ambiguity, transforming disparate inputs into holistic design solutions
Effectiveness in working across organizational boundaries to define, manage, and prioritize work
A clean aesthetic, and a propensity for simplicity
Conversancy with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Retail/e-commerce design experience in a global context
Expertise in voice interface design is a plus
Desire to work in a start-up style environment, where iteration and learning is encouraged
Experience with multiple platforms and form factors, including smartphone, tablet, multi-modal, and wearables

Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.