Sr. UX Designer, Alexa Partner Experiences

Join the Alexa Partner Experience UX Team and design the future of partner experiences on Alexa.

Our team empowers third party experience makers key partners/brands and developers to create exciting voice-first multimodal experiences and interactions across a variety of Alexa-enabled devices for their customers.

In this role you will lead projects with our partners helping to envision their experiences on Alexa as you work with stakeholders on various aspects of Alexa capabilities and functionalities. You empathize with developers and customers and thrive to shape the future of voice and multimodal interaction for people across the globe.

This Seattle WA based role is a unique opportunity to lead the design for an exciting range of new third-party brand experiences on Alexa. Weve launched experiences with partners including Uber OpenTable Grubhub Uber Eats and Ticketmaster and we are just getting started. Youll be joining a multidisciplinary team of UX design voice design and design technology that are equal parts thinkers and doers analysts and artists designers and customers. We like to obsess over our customer and create experiences that are better on Alexa.

You lead by doing and have a passion for solving problems at massive scale. You excel through innovation creativity and attention to detail. You are a proven strategic thinker and collaborator who flourishes in a large organization. You sincerely believe that design is more than how something looks but also how it feels and functions. You enjoy great design debates and thrive on iterating based on partner and customer feedback. You excel at presenting your designs to stakeholders and partners.

You have a commitment to learning and expanding professional and technical knowledge and a desire for innovation balanced with business needs and customer expectations.


Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate and work cross-functionally with design program and engineering teams from design concept to design solution setting UX guidelines testing experiences creating assets and ensure bar-raising quality all the way to market.
- Create the vision for developing communicating and implementing the user experience and associated UI framework and assets on a range of products; follow through with the processes and tactics to fulfill the vision
- Work with external partners to define their experiences on Alexa
- Use various inputs to identify and define exciting new concepts opportunities and customer problems.
- Inspire mentor and lead a variety of designers on the UX team
- Excellent verbal and written presentation skills to communicate design thinking and drive discussion and reviews.
- Leverage user research analytics and data to drive design direction.
- Create pattern libraries templates and tools for a variety of users on our platform
- Work strategically with other executives and team members across the organization

A day in the life
In this high visibility role youll drive large initiatives across customer experiences with our third party partners. You will collaborate with designers research engineers and product to align on customer obsessed solutions. Youll work with cross-functional experts across the Alexa organization to define a vision invent innovative design solutions make sure its right with research ensure they are working well for customers then review and iterate. As a leader on the team you will be an active participant in reviews critique and the professional development and growth of the UX team and their practices.

About the team
The Alexa Partner Experience UX Team is a cross-functional team that owns creating new customer experiences for brands on Alexa. Our mission it to create innovative partner experiences that are uniquely suited to the needs of Alexa customers. We are not only experience creators but advocates for LLM innovation and AI best practices during a time of massive change and innovation in our space.

- 6 years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
- Experience working with and presenting to C-level executives IT and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent
- Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
- Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma Adobe Creative Cloud or similar
- Experience communicating and handling cross-functional programs including project stakeholders technical program managers and software development teams
- Experience in a fast paced dynamic organization
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally to meet with partners.

- Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes
- Experience with UX design of complex workflows
- Experience utilizing project management tools for UX like Asana.
- Experience prototyping in code with industry standard tools like Kiro and Cursor.
- Professional experience with the voice industry and artificial intelligence
- Ability to prototype voice user experiences

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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 WA Seattle - 137800.00 - 186400.00 USD annually