UX Designer, Alexa Auto

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Alexa is the leading Virtual Assistant in the home, connecting customers to services on the internet in a natural and seamless way. The Alex Auto team is bringing Alexa out of the home and into vehicles, building voice-forward experiences that delight customers, increase safety, and bring the future of transportation to life. Our mission is to continue pushing the envelope in automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language understanding (NLU), and voice user interfaces (VUI) to provide the best possible end user experience. Whether in the kitchen with Echo, in an Alexa-enabled vehicle, or the go with mobile devices, customers expect Alexa to delight them with the same immediate and accurate answers to their requests.

The Alexa Automotive UX Design team is seeking a motivated UX Designer with experience designing multi-modal experiences on voice and screen to help take our product to the next level. This role will define and drive multimodal interfaces for vehicle-specific Alexa experiences. We seek an innovator, since this role will be expected to create solutions and pursue ambitious ideas in a interaction paradigm. We seek proactive operators who thrive in ambiguous areas. We seek a collaborator, as this role will be working side by side with product managers, engineers, and UX researchers to inform your designs and bring them to life. A pragmatic approach and translation of business needs into new-to-the-world, customer-focused Alexa experiences are key to success. And most importantly, this role must conceptualize spoken and multimodal experiences in the abstract, communicate them effectively to the larger team, and drive solid design deliverables. Responsibilities will expand upon many aspects of UX Design, including information architecture, UX flows, VUI, GUI. This role will work closely with a team of rock star Designers to bring Alexa into to the automotive experience.

Key Responsibilities:
· Produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and rigorous user interface specifications.
· Draw on depth of experience to work with UX research and testing efforts as needed
· Effectively communicate concepts of spoken interaction design in daily iterations with product managers, engineers, and testers
· Drive innovation into their designs from customer insights, product analytics, and competitive intelligence
· Get quick feedback on designs through reviews and leverage user research for ideation and concept refinement.
· Collaborate with a team of rock star Designers, Researchers, and Design Technologists in Auto and beyond.
· Develop and maintain detailed VUI and GUI specifications
· Present design work to internal team and external teams for review and feedback

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Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design or equivalent design-related field
· 4+ years of experience as an interaction designer, user interface designer, or similar role
· Design experience on tablet, mobile, or consumer devices
· Experience with Adobe Suite, Sketch, or their functional equivalents
· Experience working with user research insights and data-driven analytics
· Experience prototyping at various levels for iteration on concepts
· Understanding of speech and language technologies
· Experience designing for voice