Senior UX Designer

Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
Location: Hawthorne
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

Do you love wrangling complex and technical problems into simple and visually creative experiences? Are you interested in joining a growing team to create user-centered experiences for a young and disruptive Amazon brand?

We are seeking an exceptional UX Designer to craft beautiful, smart, and customer-focused digital experiences for Key by Amazon.

A day in the life

As a creative visionary on the team, you will advocate for and execute against design excellence. You're driven to design user experiences that connect with customers. You are both imaginative and pragmatic, and are not afraid to reimagine existing elements to provide customers with the most delightful experiences.

About the hiring group

Key by Amazon is revolutionizing the future of delivery by bringing convenience and peace of mind to our customers. Our mission is to provide best-in-class experiences for customers to discover, adopt, and engage with Key by Amazon services such as in-garage package and grocery delivery.

Job responsibilities

As a UX Designer, you possess the necessary skills and expertise to be able lead projects and push UX Design limits. You demonstrate an ability to work creatively around difficult business, technical or resource constraints. To succeed you drive alignment around design decisions by soliciting and managing design feedback, and communicating and collaborating with peers and stakeholders in producing great visual experiences based on user-centric design patterns.

In this role you will:

• Work closely with product managers, developers and designers iteratively to design, refine, and validate solutions.
• Using your design skills, you create wireframes, storyboards, walkthroughs and prototypes that communicate your design ideas.
• Provide and incorporate meaningful feedback to improve your design solutions and perspectives.
• Produce documentation to ensure your designs are well understood by stakeholders and detailed enough for efficient development.
• Apply the latest WCAG accessibility standards into every aspect of your work.

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.

• 6+ years of design experience
• An available online portfolio
• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer or visual designer
• 3+ years experience in web and native apps and mobile first design approaches.
• Experience with design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Illustrator, XD, and Photoshop.
• Has designed and launched at least one product into the market.
• Fluency in understanding and interpreting strategy to developing initial concepts design solutions
• Experience in designing cross platform experiences
• Proficiency in presenting design work to peers, product and engineering teams, and executives for review and feedback
• Experience using best practices for mobile and web-based information architecture and design, as well as knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Experience with research and human-centered design with a portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating user-centered
• Experience in using, designing, or managing design systems
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Additional design skills in related fields, including art direction, filmmaking, motion design, and prototyping

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