Sr UX Designer

  • Full-time

Company Description

The Advertising team in Amazon has the charter of marketing our products to drive traffic to Amazon.com and increase sales. We are also responsible for increasing the monetization of our Associates and Publishers by having Amazon and non-Amazon ads and product references on their sites. The Publisher Experience team in Amazon is responsible for providing easy to use tools for publishers to create these visually appealing references on their sites and contextually link-up their pages, making it incredible easy for their customers to discover and consume products on the Amazon store and elsewhere, thereby monetizing their traffic better. The Publisher Central portal is used worldwide and is a single stop dashboard for our publishers to create, visualize and enhance their business across device categories. We are looking for energetic innovative, customer-obsessed UX designers with a strong visual design portfolio to build these experiences.


As Sr UX Designer, you will be responsible for developing best-in-class consumer experiences (user interface designs, interaction models, prototypes, etc.) in a fast-paced, agile, startup-like environment. You will work closely with engineering, product/program management, marketing and site merchandising, and company leaders to successfully go from early-stage product concepts to launch. You are a pragmatic visionary that can translate business needs into a fantastic customer-focused solution. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open and collaborative peer environment. The ideal candidate for this position will be at ease visualizing an experience in the abstract and driving that vision into solid design deliverables. Flexibility, a strong work ethic and a good sense of humor are a must.


Key Responsibilities:

• Create the vision for developing, communicating, and implementing the user experience and associated UI framework and assets on a range of products; follow through with the processes and tactics to implement the vision

• Inspire and mentor others on the User Experience team

• Produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, user interface specifications, and final graphics with a strong visual design element

• Partner with the marketing team to create relevant assets for site merchandising, banner ads, email campaigns, etc.

• Initiate and manage user experience research and testing processes

• Drive the development and communication of design guidelines, patterns, and libraries

• Perform metrics analysis to inform design/UX optimization efforts

• Oversee close coordination with the product management team to develop a shared vision of a product and then lead a process to define the experience and design to deliver on the product’s objectives

• Partner with the technology team to ensure we leverage the scale offered by our platform without compromising on core experiential principles

• Work strategically with other executives and team members across the organization

• Partner with others in the broader design community to develop and extend the experience across the array of offerings

What you bring:

• Strong visual design and user experience skill set including strategy, information architecture, and design aesthetic

• Capacity for creating fun, highly usable designs and layouts, and a propensity towards simplification

• Obsession with foreseeing and advocating customer needs

• An informed set of core values regarding user experience, technology, and business communication and the ability to present them with eloquence and concision.

• Proven ability to work cross-team, lead the design process and synthesize feedback and input from product management, engineering, and marketing

• Unwavering attention to detail with an acute awareness that everything counts

• Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business needs, and customer expectations

• Commitment to learning and expanding professional and technical knowledge.

• Ability to quickly turn around detailed wireframes, mockups, or visual comps in an iterative environment.

• Ability to work directly with highly technical teams and handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

• Solid experience guiding or managing user research and usability testing

Requirements:


• Overall 10+ years of experience and at least 5 years in UX designing.

• Working experience as an interactive designer / user experience designer; expertise in both information architecture and visual design

• Bachelor’s Degree required. Degree in design or a related field strongly preferred

• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions is a requirement for application

• Experience shipping innovative, successful consumer products

• Proficient skill level in the standard tools of the design trade, e.g. Photoshop, Fireworks, Visio, Omnigraffle, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and HTML/CSS

• Fluent in English with a proven track record of presenting to and influencing senior management

• Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques

• Ability to prototype in HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, and CSS, Flash or Flash Catalyst

• Experience with Agile/Scrum

• Experience designing mobile web, and/or on-device mobile applications

• Proficiency with web and accessibility standards

• E-commerce experience and background in designing authoring tools preferred






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