The Commerce Platform UX Design team is at the heart of our AWS Customers’ experience. We innovate and design on behalf of our AWS customers, Service Owners, as well as Legal and Sales. We’re looking for a customer-obsessed designer to map out a vision and strategy innovating and simplifying the overall AWS Customer commerce and billing experience for both AWS Customers and Service Owners as well as lead the iterative delivery of design artifacts.
You will go deep in research and service design: understanding customer jobs-to-be-done, desired outcomes, and pain points, then rank desired outcomes and build to-be service maps that cross products to create a cohesive experience. You'll collaborate closely with senior leaders to make strategic investments and drive execution that improves customers' desired outcomes. As a Sr. UX Designer, you will own defining the customer experience for a collection of journeys with the highest potential ROI.
A successful candidate will be entrepreneurial, curious, creative, highly analytical and able to work autonomously to deliver results as part of a large cross-functional team. We are looking for a designer who is a systems thinker and highly skilled at clarifying the big picture, driving alignment across a broad set of stakeholders (Product, Tech, Science, Service Owners) while also highlighting the best point opportunities.
Key job responsibilities
- Analyze customer problems, design customer journey flows and delightful solutions that deliver results.
- Own and lead cross-functional design brainstorm and review meetings with Product, Tech, Science and business teams for input, alignment and sign-off on design deliverables.
- Design customer journey flows and low, medium and high-fidelity wireframes and mockups.
- Review and defend design recommendations to partners, stakeholders, and senior leadership for review, feedback, and approval.
- Provide design assets to development teams for implementation.
- Provide design clarification and consultation as needed to engineers when UX deliverables are being developed.
- Measure the success and effectiveness of UX innovations.
About the team
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax
- Experience with UX design of complex workflows
- Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and design
- Experience acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps
- Experience working with stakeholders to plan and execute programs that are strategic in nature
- Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes
- Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
- Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $211,600/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.