UX Production Designer - Device Design Group

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon's Device and Services Design Group has launched revolutionary products like Kindle, Fire Tablets, Fire TV and Echo along with a range of content and services like Amazon Instant Video, and Alexa voice commands. Are you interested in joining the team to lead Amazon's next innovation?
Our design studio is looking for a UX Production Designer with impeccable craft and attention to details, to help build the next big product that will offer an exciting way for families to interact with home media and information. You will contribute to a product vision, design connected experiences for digital, mobile, and home space, and deliver the interaction and visual design building blocks.
Join a multidisciplinary team of extraordinary UX designers, technologists, animators, and industrial designers. We are equal parts thinkers and doers, analysts and artists, designers and customers. Our goal is to ship both revolutionary and evolutionary products we are proud to use ourselves. This role is based in Seattle, WA.

What we're looking for:
As a production designer you will work with a team of world-class designers and developers to create great experiences for millions of users. Our ideal candidate is an exceptional problem solver with an extreme attention to details that can do great work in a fast paced, collaborative, studio environment that values creativity, innovation, and hard work. We are not looking for pixel pushers. We are looking for designers who like to push projects over the goal line. People who can iterate, inform, and extend design.
Responsibilities:
· Work with interaction, visual, motion designers and developers to determine best way to execute designs
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· Create detailed design specifications including redlines
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· Output and organize files into a consistent structure for development handoff
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· Create high fidelity images under tight deadlines
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· Build and maintain a design language system with UX principles, interaction patterns, UI components, and functional specifications for internal and third party developers
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· Manage the design process by setting people's expectations, driving decisions, and tracking issues.
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· Articulate design work and rationale to teams, peers, and executives for review and feedback
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· Collaborate with Design, Program, and Engineering teams from design concept to design solution, UX guidelines, asset production, and bug fixes to ensure quality all the way to market.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in UX Design or related design discipline.
· 5+ years of experience as a UX designer, UI designer, information architect, or similar role.
· Experience with design and prototyping tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch
· Experience with mobile and web technologies such as Android, React Native, JavaScript