Were looking for a Senior UX Designer who is passionate about inventing meaningful future experiences that have positive global impact and improve the lives of our customers. A leader in design thinking youre able to balance the known customer needs of today with the known and unknown possibilities of tomorrow to envision the future. You take the team and wider stakeholders on the journey of seeing into the future today. Youre comfortable working with a multidisciplinary team from early concept generation (brainstorms and basic sketches) through to polished solutions (high fidelity outputs that excites leaders to invest). Through your craft you elevate seeds of ideas into desirable solutions. Your curiosity to push boundaries and innovate will inspire those around you and facilitate team growth while your handson collaborative nature will build trust with your peers and mature their ability to turn ambiguity into tangible experiences.
Drawing from customer insights industry trends and business requirements you will be responsible for leading crossfunctional teams to uncover insights and ideate on innovative solutions. Strong storytelling and presentation skills are essential as this UX designer will need to clearly communicate the design strategy outcomes and deliverables to diverse stakeholders. You must thrive in ambiguity and be comfortable making highjudgment calls throughout the design process including deciding when to escalate risks or pivot from the plan.
Key job responsibilities
Bring concepts to life through various mediums (e.g. prototypes motion video highfidelity visuals and physical form factors).
Comfortable with all phases of the innovation design lifecycle (e.g. discovery ideation prioritization refinement and building a narrative to share broadly).
Collaborate with wide range of stakeholders (including senior leadership tech product etc). throughout the design process.
Work with ambiguity and generate divergent concepts. You can explore broad themes but also find the compelling nuggets to go deeper.
Develop and maintain a deep understanding of industry trends customer needs and competitive landscape to inform design strategy
Digest a lot of information make sense of it and turn it into meaningful experiences for our customers and business.
Working in a small team of highly skilled individuals you relish collaboration to push ideas but can also work autonomously.
Utilize strong storytelling and presentation skills to clearly communicate the design strategy outcomes and deliverables to diverse stakeholders
About the team
Futures Design is the advanced concept design and incubation team within Amazons Device and Services Design Group (DDG). We are responsible for exploring and defining think (very) big opportunities globally and locally so that we can better understand how new products and services might enrich the lives of our customers. We focus on a 3 year time frame with the runway to invent and design categorydefining transformational customer experiences. We ground ourselves in customer insights to envision foreseen futures through powerful storytelling.
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 designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma ProtoPie Sketch Photoshop Illustrator InVision or similar
Able to leverage research trends and business strategy to create actionable customer centric solutions
Infectious passion for learning and innovation balanced with business needs and customer expectations
Experience creating new and inspiring North Star concepts that informs the vision of Futures Design
Have your finger on the pulse of advanced interaction and motion designs and trends
Ability to navigate ambiguity to drive the design cycle
Ability to multitask in an fastpaced environment
Experience collaborating with UX Product and technical partners
Experience designing for interactive digital platforms
Excellent communication presentation and interpersonal skills
You are an inspiring and positive force of nature that brings new ideas to the table!
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $211600/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.