BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent design-related field; or commensurate experience.
- 8+ years of UX design or interaction design experience, including creating mockups, wireframes and prototypes for web and mobile applications and/or workflows.
- Experience using tools such as Figma for prototyping design concepts and for defining and documenting the user interface architecture (UI patterns, components and guidelines).
- Proficient establishing, designing and using design systems and design frameworks
- Have an available online portfolio demonstrating samples of design deliverables (design systems, personas, journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes)
DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a Sr. UX Designer to drive the definition and design of the Books/Kindle design language and partner with engineering on the implementation of a multi-device, cross-product design system. The design system provides the components used throughout Books’ web, mobile, and 1st-party-device experiences, provides tools for designers and developers, and documents the human interface guidelines for how to use the components. In this role, you will collaborate with a team of world-class multi-disciplinary designers to invent and deliver UX frameworks and features that align and extend the experience across all devices. You will champion a design system and invent and simplify a set of mechanisms, building blocks and tools that empower designers and engineers building the future experiences for Books/Kindle products. We are committed to providing a best-in-class experience for all customers, and this role will ensure our design system is accessible and inclusive from Day 1.
This role will solve complex, cutting-edge problems and get things done. A successful candidate has a passion for design systems, strong visual and interaction design senses, a customer-obsessed UX toolkit, and a history of applying them at scale. You'll use these skills to define, grow and refine our design system's foundations, components, and patterns, in addition to helping us expand to new customers, and technologies.
Key job responsibilities
- Identify, create, and optimize design foundations, reusable components, and high-level patterns for the Books Design System
- Deliver artifacts that raise the bar for visual and user experience design, whether you're working on wireframes, user flows, high-fidelity mockups, or prototypes.
- Partner with a multi-disciplinary product and engineering team to own the implementation of your work.
- Collaborate with designers, engineers and other stakeholders across teams and organizations to increase adoption and shape the future of our design system.
- Create and optimize the processes and tools available to our designer, developers, and other consumers to collaborate.
- Partner with our product and engineering teams to create a consistent cross device customer and user experience.
About the team
Helping customers connect with the stories and authors they love is Amazon’s original customer obsession. On the Books team, our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. In pursuit of this, our 70+ person Design Studio provides the user research, UX design, UX Writing, and creative design for Kindle E-readers, Kindle apps for phones and tablets, Author & Publisher tools, and book shopping experiences used by millions of readers and thousands of authors around the world.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience designing consumer-facing or enterprise experiences.
- Experience in applying and advocating for best practices for accessible UX. Experience designing for federal 508 Compliance a plus.
- 4+ years of experience working in direct collaboration with product managers, developers, and/or stakeholders
- Experience participating in the complete product development lifecycle of successfully launched applications
- Ability to prototype in environments like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS a plus but not required
- Ability to manage multiple projects and make impact in a fast-paced environment
- Adobe Creative Cloud experience (Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar) a plus
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to articulate the rationale behind your design decisions
- Demonstrated history of conducting user research, or assisting with the collection of user insights and feedback (e.g., customer interviews and usability studies) and leveraging research in your designs
- Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity and a track record of leading design projects that have launched.
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.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $113,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $211,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. 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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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