UX Design Manager Kindle
UX Design Manager Kindle
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01-05-2025
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$ 136400 - 225500
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
01-05-2025
Job Description
The Books Design Studio seeks a passionate and people obsessed leader to join our Kindle Reader and Subscriptions 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 50 person global Design Studio provides the user research UX and brand design for Kindle Ereaders Kindle apps for phones & tablets Author & Publisher tools and book shopping experiences used by millions of readers and thousands of authors around the world.
The Kindle Reader and Subscriptions team crafts engaging high quality experiences for Kindle customers. In this role you will use your impressive abilities to collaborate across teams with a relentless focus on doing whats right for readers to manage the Kindle subscriptions. The ideal candidate will have a proven record of delivering against a vision and supporting their teams growth. To succeed in this role you must have high judgement be an innovative selfstarter in driving operational excellence and a strategic bigpicture thinker who leads through others. You must demonstrate effective collaboration through your engagement with stakeholders and partnering managers.
Key job responsibilities
* Grow and lead a talented team of designers responsible for endtoend subscription experiences across desktop and mobile Kindle reading and discovery surfaces.
* Manage the user experience design of multiple midtolargesized programs through leading a design team.
* Cultivate and maintain frameworks and mechanisms that increase the propagation of high quality designs while focusing designer time on the most complex impactful work.
* Model behavior that exemplifies Amazon Leadership Principles and raise the design bar for the organization.
* Maintain a culture of crossstudio engagement to champion subscription awareness across teams.
* Provide coaching and feedback with an emphasis on growing senior ICs and leadership capability.
* Drive operational excellence across the team that cultivates a positive environment and inclusive culture.
*Partner with leaders across disciplines (marketing product tech research) to define the strategic direction and design resourcing needs.
*Support and contribute to Kindle Reader Design team broader mechanisms.
About the team
We are a diverse collaborative group with a passion for crafting exceptional experiences to help customers enjoy reading more. We hope youll join us.
As the Books Studio is largely based in Seattle we fully support relocation to Seattle should that be desired.
This role would be managing a team of approximately 5 direct reports working to motivate readers and support customers in finding their next great read.
6 years of design experience
3 years of leading design teams experience
Experience managing teams
Experience leading design teams in problem definition artifact rendering crossfunctional collaboration and delivery and user validation and measurement
Experience working crossteam and synthesize feedback and input from product management engineering testing and marketing
Experience with agile/scrum
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability 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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $225500/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.
The Kindle Reader and Subscriptions team crafts engaging high quality experiences for Kindle customers. In this role you will use your impressive abilities to collaborate across teams with a relentless focus on doing whats right for readers to manage the Kindle subscriptions. The ideal candidate will have a proven record of delivering against a vision and supporting their teams growth. To succeed in this role you must have high judgement be an innovative selfstarter in driving operational excellence and a strategic bigpicture thinker who leads through others. You must demonstrate effective collaboration through your engagement with stakeholders and partnering managers.
Key job responsibilities
* Grow and lead a talented team of designers responsible for endtoend subscription experiences across desktop and mobile Kindle reading and discovery surfaces.
* Manage the user experience design of multiple midtolargesized programs through leading a design team.
* Cultivate and maintain frameworks and mechanisms that increase the propagation of high quality designs while focusing designer time on the most complex impactful work.
* Model behavior that exemplifies Amazon Leadership Principles and raise the design bar for the organization.
* Maintain a culture of crossstudio engagement to champion subscription awareness across teams.
* Provide coaching and feedback with an emphasis on growing senior ICs and leadership capability.
* Drive operational excellence across the team that cultivates a positive environment and inclusive culture.
*Partner with leaders across disciplines (marketing product tech research) to define the strategic direction and design resourcing needs.
*Support and contribute to Kindle Reader Design team broader mechanisms.
About the team
We are a diverse collaborative group with a passion for crafting exceptional experiences to help customers enjoy reading more. We hope youll join us.
As the Books Studio is largely based in Seattle we fully support relocation to Seattle should that be desired.
This role would be managing a team of approximately 5 direct reports working to motivate readers and support customers in finding their next great read.
6 years of design experience
3 years of leading design teams experience
Experience managing teams
Experience leading design teams in problem definition artifact rendering crossfunctional collaboration and delivery and user validation and measurement
Experience working crossteam and synthesize feedback and input from product management engineering testing and marketing
Experience with agile/scrum
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability 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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $225500/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.
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