Amazon North America Stores (NAS) Design organization is seeking our next UX Designer. Our team is dedicated to being the beacon of design excellence within the highly visual emotive and impassioned space where shopping and cuttingedge technology meet. We need your experience optimism and energy to build simple fluid and beautiful experiences that accommodate Amazons growing and diverse product selection (e.g. household basics beauty fashion home and lifestyle pets automotive electronics and more) and give customers everything they need to make confident buying decisions while delighting them along the way. We are constantly spotting opportunities to set new standards and challenge the status quo which is why we need people who are aligned with our leadership principles and ready to make a serious impact on our industry and the world. A UX Designer role on our team offers the opportunity to lead the design of innovative retail and platform shopping experiences across multiple big exciting and diverse programs worldwide.
You would be perfect for this role if:
You have a portfolio of launched work demonstrating measurable impact of your design and a strong understanding of usercentered design principles.
You thrive on discovering big and small ways to make improvements to the customer experience.
You are fluent in performing UX heuristic and information architecture evaluations secondary research and user testing.
You have excellent inperson and remote communication presentation and interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and disciplines.
You work well in multidisciplinary environments where everyone has a seat at the table and equal responsibility for customer outcomes.
You are a selfstarter who is comfortable wearing many hats and can confidently navigate ambiguity.
Key job responsibilities
Work iteratively and collaboratively with a crossdisciplinary team (product owners developers researchers) using lean and agile methodologies to explore test and implement designs.
Propose ideas and build new features that give customers the confidence to purchase products and services from Amazon.
Create sketches flows wireframes prototypes and high fidelity mockups as needed to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed experiences.
Responsibly and effectively advocate for the customer fostering a shared understanding of the customercentric intersection between design content business and marketing values.
Optimize the effectiveness of new and existing features by proactively planning performing and advocating validation techniques like usability testing user research and interpreting analytic data.
Present design work for review and feedback to UX peers product & engineering to a thriving design culture.
About the team
Were an eclectic creative team of design research writing and design technology professionals that share our experiences and help each other succeed. Our creative work impacts millions of customers thousands of selling partners and hundreds of coworkers every day. We hire people who are unafraid of bringing their authentic selves to work. Our inspiration and collaboration depend on the diversity of our teams and the inclusion of all voices in our process. We love a complex problem and moving fast in a growing and changing environment. We appreciate action and learning from mistakes. Championing our customers placing their particular goals in the forefront informing the collective design and lifting customer empathy across the larger organization is our sweetspot. Our creative work impacts millions of customers thousands of selling partners and hundreds of coworkers every day and we are proud to be a part of it.
Have an online portfolio or samples of work on resume demonstrating experience creating great endtoend usercentered design solutions and patterns across desktop and mobile devices
Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and design
Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch Photoshop Illustrator InVision or similar
Experience acquiring user data (e.g. conducting usability studies performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps
Bachelors degree
Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
5 years of user experience designer interaction designer information architect or similar designrelated role experience
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.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $106000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $184000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.