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 Research and Design Studio provides user research UX design and brand design for Kindle Ereaders Kindle apps Author & Publisher tools and book shopping experiences used by millions of readers and thousands of authors and publishers around the world.
We are looking for a Sr. UX Designer for Publisher Tools and Content Experiences to join our team in our downtown Seattle location. You will be instrumental in shaping the future of our next generation of tools and reading experiences. You will partner with another UX designer and researcher to reimagine and improve experiences across a suite of contentbased features and book formatting tools (Kindle Create Kindle Previewer Kindle Online Previewer).
A successful candidate in this role will have a good balance of product design interaction design and visual skills across native and webbased app design. They will have experience working across the spectrum from vision building to feature creation in existing frameworks. Your work will help define experiences that connect author and publisher needs to shape the next generation of reading experiences. You will work with senior leaders engineers product managers and design peers to gather research develop concepts create presentations and deliver specifications for development that are beautiful inclusive and accessible. This is a highvisibility and collaborative role on a fun passionate team of designers and crossfunctional partners.
6 years of design experience Have an available online portfolio Experience with design tools such as Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML JavaScript CSS Ajax Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity Experience acquiring user data (e.g. conducting usability studies performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps
6 years of UX designer or interaction designer experience 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 Experience working with stakeholders to plan and execute programs that are strategic in nature Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes
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