Sr Manager AI UX Systems, Device Design Team

Were looking for a design leader to join our growing Alexa AI Systems team someone who is energized by the future of AI-powered products and passionate about shaping both the ideas and the products that bring them to life. This is a blended role ideal for a design leader who thrives as a hands-on people manager.

You will work at the front lines of invention crafting product stories that explore bold new directions in AI then seeing them through to tangible hardware and software launches. Youll collaborate closely with cross-functional partners in Industrial Design Engineering Research and Product Management to prototype test and scale new experiences that bridge physical and digital design.

Key job responsibilities
Explore & Define: Lead early-stage concept development that pushes the boundaries of AI-powered interactions across hardware and software.
Design with Intent: Craft compelling product narratives and user experiences that align emerging technologies with human needs.
Collaborate Across Disciplines: Work fluidly between atoms and pixelstranslating user insights and technical possibilities into integrated designs.
Prototype & Build: Develop and iterate design solutions through hands-on prototyping and close partnership with engineering.
Ship Impactful Products: Drive work from concept to execution and contribute to shipped products that customers love.
Shape the Team: Depending on your track mentor designers and/or help define the future of the teams design culture tooling and methods.

A day in the life
What Youll Explore and Influence:
1) Exploring new hardware and software opportunities powered by AI: Youll lead design team efforts that imagine how AI can reshape the form and function of everyday objects. This goes beyond simply integrating AI into existing devicesits
about asking what new kinds of devices should exist because AI exists. Youll prototype new interaction models that leverage onboard machine learning edge inferencing and multimodal sensing to create experiences that feel intuitive
adaptive and human. Whether its inventing a novel wearable a context-aware home device or a hybrid physical-digital tool youll push the boundaries of whats possible when software intelligence meets hardware invention.
2) Going beyond the traditional GUI:
Were entering a post-GUI worldone where touchscreens and menus are no longer the center of every interaction. Your work will imagine and design interaction paradigms that leave behind flat screens and point-and-click metaphors. Youll
explore how voice gestures environmental cues spatial presence and predictive behavior can become primary interaction methods. Youll define how interface design evolves when its no longer bound by rectangles and pixels but instead is
embedded in the world around us.
3) Designing for ambient context-aware interfaces in the smart home: Youll investigate how ambient computing can turn a smart home into a seamless
responsive and emotionally intelligent environment. Instead of users issuing
commands devices will anticipate needs and respond in nuanced wayslighting that adjusts with mood audio systems that follow you room to room or assistants that speak less but do more. Your design work will focus on subtlety context-
awareness and designing systems that listen learn and act with minimal friction. Youll consider ethical design principles transparency and user trust in these always-on experiences.
4) Creating a unified interaction model across screens spaces and devices:
A key challengeand opportunityis building a design system that spans across a diverse ecosystem: from screen-rich devices (like tablets or thermostats) to screenless ones (like speakers wearables or embedded objects). Youll help define how core information user intent and feedback persist and adapt as people move
through different contextsat home in their car or out in the world. Your work will
help establish continuity across time place and form factor ensuring a cohesive
experience whether the user is tapping talking glancing or simply moving through
space.
5) Bridging the boundaries between industrial design and interaction design:
This role sits at the intersection of form and function and youll play a pivotal role in
shaping both. Youll collaborate closely with industrial designers to co-create
physical products where the interaction model is deeply informed by shape
materials posture and affordances. Rather than designing in parallel youll design
in unisonensuring that how something looks feels and responds are part of a
unified system. Youll help shape a new design language where physical and digital
interactions are fully integrated natural and human-first.

10 years of experience as a user experience designer interaction designer product designer industrial designer or similar role. A portfolio of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions. Excellent communication presentation and storytelling skills. Proven experience with rapid iterative design and development processes. Proven track record presenting to and influencing people from other designers to senior executive management. Experience leading projects and teams in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team including designers industrial design product managers and engineers. Fluency in best practices for multi-platform information architecture and design as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques. Bachelors or equivalent degree in Design HCI ID or related field or equivalent professional experience within the design field.

You are excited about the role AI will play in the next generation of consumer devicesand want to help define it.
You enjoy working at the intersection of strategy and execution imagining bold futures and building toward them.
You love engaging in early ambiguous problem spaces and helping teams navigate toward clarity.
You thrive in cross-disciplinary environments and are eager to work on both hardware and software design.
You are comfortable switching between Individual Contributor and Manager responsibilities based on what the team needs.
You want to grow in a place that supports flexible career paths whether as a design lead a people manager or both.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $162300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $268400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.