Description

We're on a journey to build something new! Come join our team and build new research, discovery and shopping products that connect customers with their vehicle of choice. In this role, you'll be researching and designing a new customer experience on Amazon.

In order to be considered for this role you must submit a link to your portfolio.

We’re looking for a design leader who:

• Can think big, concept and design new products of proven customer value

• Is highly technical and can design solutions that remove customer pain-points

• Can invent new interaction patterns and leverage technology to delight customers

• Can work with a cross-functional team to develop and execute

• Can design and deliver experiments that evolve into new learnings

• Can think, act and design for a global customer

In this role, you will be reviewing designs regularly with senior executives.

You will be expected to educate down, up and out on your design decisions and back them up with data/customer insight. You will be responsible for managing your own work queue and should demonstrate an ability to work around difficult design limitations. You’ll be an advocate for our customer experience, and understand your Amazon customer base, the competition and industry.

Key job responsibilities

• Create elegant and intuitive, multi-modal user experiences by incorporating insights, business requirements and technical constraints

• Lead the planning and strategic phases across multiple work-streams of a project. Proactively pitch new ideas, backed by a strong, well-articulated rationale

• Quickly and iteratively create user flows, wireframes, and lo-fi prototypes, with detailed visual design specifications for web and mobile interfaces

• Independently deliver UX solutions for problems of large scope and complexity with multiple dependancies

• Be a champion for user-centered design by researching/testing your solutions in front of users

• Present design work to UX, Product, and Engineering teams, as well as stakeholders and executive leadership

• Contribute to user experience design guidelines and development best practices and standards across the Amazon Design Community

• Proactively mentor and lead designers across Amazon

About the team

This role is one of the first on a newly formed team in with a vision to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers better convenience and more selection. We’re collaborating with other experienced teams at Amazon to define the future of how customers research and shop for cars online.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | New York, NY, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of design experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience providing and effectively communicating strategic and tactical recommendations based on data

• Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Axure, Keynote, and InVision

• Have an available online portfolio

• Experience in life cycle design projects from design strategy through execution

• Experience building and shipping shopping experiences from concept to launch

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $131,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $244,000/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.