People Engagement Experience (PEX) is the cord across our People Engagement (PE) experiences made up of forwardthinking UX designers researchers writers and design technologists. PEX is revolutionizing the user experience for Amazonians across the globe. Our design work has a direct impact on the lives of millions of Amazonians helping them achieve worklife balance and advance in their careers. Were also customerobsessed driving impact across the company by delivering on usercentered and business needs. We support Amazons mission to become Earths best employer through making it easier to acquire train and retain employees.
As a Sr. UX Designer of the PEX team youll craft elegant design solutions across a range of personas and platforms at global scale and collaborate closely with product and engineering partners as well as multiple partner teams within the broader People Experience Technology (PXT) and Amazon Worldwide Operation orgs. As a senior designer youll own experiences in the core Amazon employee experience A to Z and the related communication engagement scheduling and publishing experiences. You will also identify large scope product and longterm design vision to raise the UX bar for this domain.
To succeed in this role you must be an innovative selfstarter in driving operational excellence and a strategic bigpicture thinker who can deftly switch between thinking big and moving fast. The candidate must have proven the ability to succeed in a highly ambiguous fastpaced environment. Our environment requires the skills to work collaboratively and the commitment to take ownership when needed.
Key job responsibilities
Assume ownership for the end to end product experiences and features across desktop mobile and more.
Manage the user experience design of multiple midtolargesized programs.
Contribute to the vision for the organization and influence product strategic roadmap. Lead the discovery strategize concept design and launch phases of a project.
Champion usercentered design culture. Drive creative process and collaboration with crossfunctional partners to propose new ideas and strategies.
Model behavior that exemplifies Amazon Leadership Principles in their team. Raises the design bar for the organization.
Provide coaching and feedback with an emphasis on growing junior Independent Contributors and leadership capability.
Create and drive adoption of design guidelines mechanisms best practices process and tools.
A day in the life
This Senior UX Designer will be working with product and engineering stakeholders closely on daytoday basis. While this designer independently owns one to three products/features at the same time he/she will also collaborate with other UX designers in the same team on connecting individual features to a holistic experience. UX Researchers and UX Copy Writers will support you in user research and UX content. This designer will share design work regularly with design team peer review stakeholder review and leadership. More importantly every work day is full of fun engagement and building meaningful connections with each other.
About the team
We are a multidisciplinary team creating truly meaningful products and experiences that empower and connect millions of Amazon employees. Our team consist of designers researchers and writers and is spread across key Amazon hubs.
6 years of design experience
Have an available online portfolio
Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
Experience working with stakeholders to plan and execute programs that are strategic in nature
Experience acquiring user data (e.g. conducting usability studies performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps
Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch Photoshop Illustrator InVision or similar
Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
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