Sr UX Designer, Luxury, Elevated Shopping
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
You will deliver ambitious data-driven concepts that translate luxury customer needs and constraints into simple intuitive customer-focused solutions. You are equally strong at concept and execution articulating end-to-end experiences and turning vision into high-quality deliverables including user interface designs interaction models prototypes and interactive campaigns.
You balance a passion for inspired compelling and elegant design with a highly analytical nature precise execution and a drive to build and deliver. You will work under the guidance of a Creative Director and collaborate closely with Art Directors fellow Designers Design Technologists and Programme Managers. You will also communicate with internal partners (Marketing and Brand) and external stakeholders to deliver innovative results from concept development through to final execution.
What Were Looking For:
You operate with a high degree of independence and ownership including in areas where programme strategy is still being defined. You invent evolve improve and simplify in a manner that scales across multiple teams feature types and development methodologies. You are comfortable with ambiguity adapt your approach to meet the needs of a broad set of partners and are highly collaborative.
You have an anything is possible mindset when faced with hard problems and thrive on uncovering deep customer insights. Youre proud of your work and expertise but flexible and open to cross-functional input as you want to be part of something impactful.
Key job responsibilities
Design Leadership & Execution:
- Deliver solutions for complex UX problems where strategy requirements and customer needs may not yet be defined.
- Design the architecture interface and interaction flow of luxury services and experiences from personas and journey maps through to wire-frames and prototypes.
- Set and drive adoption of design patterns standards and best practices across teams.
- Craft and validate long-term design strategies that impact product roadmaps and business goals.
- Lead org reviews and critiques; mentor and develop designers within and beyond your team.
Customer & Data Insight:
- Synthesize qualitative and quantitative data to inform CX and business decisions.
- Understand customer needs through research market analysis and feedback resolving root causes and enabling innovation.
Technical Collaboration:
- Influence engineering decisions to enable UX delivery as designed demonstrating knowledge of tech stack capabilities constraints and system implications.
- Articulate short-term vs. long-term trade-offs to technical and non-technical partners.
Communication & Stakeholder Management:
- Present confidently to leaders up to three levels above across design marketing legal finance and PR.
- Drive alignment through clear artifacts (specs flows wire-frames prototypes narratives) and productive cross-functional discussions.
Operational Excellence:
- Create and optimize cross-team mechanisms that improve efficiency streamline processes and increase collaboration across design product and engineering.
About the team
The Design team serves as the creative strategic center for Luxury and complex brand experiences at Amazon. We invent and simplify how luxury and premium brands present themselves on Amazon obsessing over inspiration customer behavior and data to deliver elevated experiences at massive worldwide scale. Our work impacts millions of customers daily and is a critical part of Amazons global Luxury and Premium business.
As we continue to redefine what premium brand presentation looks like on Amazon we are building the foundation for how luxury brands grow and thrive within our ecosystem ensuring their identity craftsmanship and prestige are reflected at every touch-point.
- 7 years of design experience
- Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and design
- 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 in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
- Bachelors degree
- Knowledge of branding guidelines corporate identity and visual design systems
- Experience providing training and mentorship
- Experience with e-commerce search social and other major application types and their UX patterns
- Experience creating services and applications with multiple user touchpoints across platforms and devices
- Experience in luxury or premium brand environments
- Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices
- Ability to recognise opportunities where generative AI could enhance products workflows or customer experiences
- Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices.
- Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products workflows or customer experiences.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
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.
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 NY New York - 151600.00 - 205000.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
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