Principal UX Designer, Alexa Skills Developer Tech

Description

Help shape the future of Alexa Conversational Technology and customer experience, by empowering our community of developers across the globe. Our vision is to create the world’s leading AI developer environment that empowers builders to craft experiences that make Alexa a natural and enriching part of everyday life.

We serve a diverse group of users from programmers to designers, from individuals to big companies, and help them create engaging experiences for millions of customers of 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 customer feedback.

You are skilled at managing and influencing senior leaders to help teams progress quickly.

You will be working with other stakeholders on various aspects of Alexa capabilities and functionalities. You empathize with developers and customers and thrive to shape the future of voice and multi-modal interaction for people across the globe.

Key job responsibilities

Collaborate and work cross-functionally with design, program, and engineering teams from design concept to design solution, setting UX guidelines, 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 Use various inputs to identify and define exciting new concepts, opportunities, and customer problems. Inspire, mentor, and lead a variety of designers on the User Experience team 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

You will collaborate with senior leaders in your organization as well as other groups within Alexa to define user experience patterns and delightful customer experiences for Alexa. Working backwards from those experiences you will help define design guidelines and influence developer/creator tools that simplify creating experiences on Alexa.

Asa part of a cross discipline design team you will work with designers, design technologists and researchers to define excellence in design practices and mentor team members and their growth.

About The Team

This role is a unique opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team of extraordinary UX designers, voice designers, design technologists, and UX researchers who are equal parts thinkers and doers, analysts and artists, designers and customers who are shaping the future of human-machine interfaces.

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

Bellevue, WA, USA | Orange, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

10+ years of design experience Have an available online portfolio Experience with best practices for User Interface Design, Information Architecture, and Interaction Design Experience in life cycle design projects from design strategy through execution

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

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.

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A2607162