Sr. Product Designer, Goodreads

Want to change the lives of millions of readers by making it easy to discover books and get more out of reading

As a Senior Product Designer on the Goodreads Design team youll work with engineers data scientists researchers product managers sales managers customer experts content creators and designers to build products that help readers find books theyll love and get more out of them and enables authors publishers and advertisers to connect with our audience of engaged readers.

Goodreads is currently reimagining our products and this role you will own manage and deliver an AI-ready design system that accelerates design velocity and consistency across mobile apps and web. You will help the team invent and simplify as we grow our business and continually identify new opportunities to deliver value to all of our customers readers authors and publisher/advertiser partners. You will be responsible for maturing our design system and tooling while up-leveling customer experiences across core product areas: Discovery Reading Tracking and Community through AI enablement. Youll design across all touch points including web iOS and Android apps and emails.


Key job responsibilities
Deliver a robust AI-ready design system that accelerates design velocity and consistency across mobile apps and web.
- Clear goal definition and adoption and usage of the system across multiple teams.
- Cross-functional stakeholders aligned and engaged in system development.
- A repeatable process for scaling and evolving the system as AI and product needs grow.

Own the design and AI enablement of our design system to deliver core reader experiences across mobile apps and web; driving adoption evaluating system gaps optimizing processes and scaling to meet all product and surface needs.

Manage the design libraries and tooling while educating the team on best practices and providing resources.

Create customer-centered designs that incorporate customer feedback user research data market trends and technical constraints.

Create flows wireframes design mockups rapid prototypes to effectively conceptualize prove out and deliver on exceptional product experiences.

Partner with design product and engineering teams to define systems and AI enablement of design work.

Partner with User Research and independently drive evaluative research to develop understanding for the customer and validate design choices before and after development.

Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross-functionally while being able to precisely articulate design rationale.

Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.

A day in the life
Product Design at Goodreads brings together the practices of human factors information architecture interaction design visual design UX research and related disciplines into a single customer-centric design role. Our designers are generalists with specialties who translate customer insights and business needs into product experiences that delight generate visual concepts that exceed expectations and work with Ai and developers to deliver those concepts with a high level of quality.

Goodreads is the worlds largest site for readers and book recommendations and we have over 100 million members. Our office is located in downtown San Francisco. Goodreads is an Amazon company so you will have opportunities to partner with Kindle and Amazon teams to elevate the reading experience for millions of customers.

- 6 years of UX designer or interaction designer experience
- Have an online portfolio or samples of work on resume demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end user-centered design solutions and patterns across desktop and mobile devices
- Experience with design tools such as Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML JavaScript CSS Ajax
- Experience with scaling experiences across native iOS and Android as well as mobile and desktop web
- Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
- Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
- Experience building strategic relationships with stakeholders including communicating and collaborating across teams and functions
- Expert in Figma prototyping and documentation platforms.
- Have an online portfolio or samples of work on resume demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end user-centered design solutions and patterns across desktop and mobile devices.

- Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and design
- Experience working directly with engineering teams
- Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences including senior leadership
- Strong visual and interaction design skills.
- Experience with managing contributing to and adopting design systems.
- A clear understanding of user-centered design processes and how AI can be integrated.
- Experience designing for consumer-facing and ad-supported products.

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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA San Francisco - 156400.00 - 211600.00 USD annually