Sr. UX Designer, Books Design Studio - Shopping - Amazon

Description 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, and brand 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 looking for a highly-determined, highly-curious, Sr. UX Designer to join our team in our downtown Seattle South Lake Union location. In this role, this Sr. UX Designer will focus on improving our customers' evaluation and purchase moments for the books on Amazon, our Kindle Apps and Kindle E-readers. This person will work collaboratively with a global team of product managers, engineers, executives, and other design teams at Amazon, to improve how customers shop for their next great read. Candidates must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed in a fast-paced environment with a high-degree of independence and ownership. Key job responsibilities - Create elegant, intuitive user experiences that meet the evolving needs of our customers across multiple global marketplaces. - Lead the planning and strategic phases of a project. Proactively pitch new CX ideas, backed by a strong, well-articulated rationale. - Understand target users deeply: develop or work from user profiles and conduct task analysis, create user scenarios or use stories. - Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups and detailed UI and visual design specifications for web, mobile web and app interfaces. - Be a champion for user testing by partnering with researchers to get your solutions in front of customers; and be willing to conduct scrappy, around-the-office user testing on your own if required. - Contribute to user interface design guidelines and development best practices and standards at Amazon - Independently deliver UX solutions for problems of large scope and complexity. - Work through ambiguity, and adapt your approach to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders. - Work well across different time-zones. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Austin, TX, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA Basic Qualifications - 8+ years of design experience - Knowledge of design tools such as Balsamiq, Omnigraffle, Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio, and Dreamweaver - Have an available online portfolio - Experience with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax Preferred Qualifications - Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes - Experience with UX design of complex workflows 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. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.