Key job responsibilities
In this role, you'll be responsible for leading a variety of initiatives that help to solve complex problems that close gaps or define opportunities for building a great discovery experience on Amazon. You'll create comprehensive design artifacts, including personas, wireframes, process flows, high-fidelity comps, and prototypes to test, evangelize and deliver your ideas. You'll work with our key partners, research, product owners and engineers to understand the customer need and deliver strategic design experiences. You'll ensure that design solutions consider market analysis, customer feedback, metrics, and usability findings. You'll bring strong, user-centered design skills and business knowledge to translate conceptual ideas into exceptional design solutions at scale. You'll collaborate and partner with other Shopping Design designers and leadership to evangelize the value and raise the visibility of design across Amazon.
A day in the life
As an ideal candidate, you believe "anything is possible” when faced with seemingly intractable problems. You’re proud of your work, your skills and expertise – but you’re not cynical, inflexible or only about your portfolio. You want to be part of something great. You love being part of a highly collaborative and high-energy team that isn’t afraid to swing for the fences or exceed expectations even on tactical projects. You geek out over customer experience, tech and commerce and believe that no experience is perfect unless it delights customers in unexpected ways. You have demonstrated business acumen and believe in the power of strategic design to differentiate business and increase customer loyalty. You are a maker who believes the only way to sell your strategic vision is to craft exquisite design artifacts that tell the story of the customer experience.
About the team
Shopping Design is a group of highly curious designers, researchers, and prototypers working collaboratively to bring products to life, power the Amazon shopping experience, and deliver innovation at incredible scale across all devices and touch-points. We own the features that enable the customer’s shopping journey from discovery to evaluation, and purchase. We are excited to welcome new faces to join us as we build best-in-class shopping experiences for millions of people around the world.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience in Adobe Creative Suit applications, with high proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Acrobat using macOS
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), a related field.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with motion design and video editing is a bonus
- Experience creating services and applications with multiple user touch points on different platforms and devices
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $108,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/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.