Sr. UX Designer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Our emerging products team is looking for an exceptional visually-driven user experience designer to craft elegant, customer-focused experiences. You will collaborate with designers, engineers and product managers – working on projects throughout the planning, design and development lifecycle. As a tastemaker and storyteller on the team, you will advocate for design excellence with both hands-on building and meeting with partners. You will contribute to product vision, and collaborate with a team that defines and designs user interfaces, systems, and interaction, visual, and motion design patterns.

Responsibilities:
· Design beautiful, useful, and desirable user interfaces and experiences in a team environment
· Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings
· Use business requirements, user and market research to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
· Design the UI architecture, interface, and interaction flow of applications and experiences
· Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, click-throughs, and prototypes
· Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications and design patterns
· Work with project managers to plan projects for effective delivery while maintaining high standards for design
· Be a passionate and effective advocate for design with non-design audiences
· Write effectively to communicate design rationales and benefits to Amazon customers

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 7+ years of experience as an interaction designer, user interface designer, or similar role
· Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent design-related field
· Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
· Experience using best practices for mobile and web-based information architecture and design, as well as knowledge of usability principles and techniques
· Experience in a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Sketch