Description

AWS Industry Products (AWS IP) is seeking a Senior UX Designer to join our design and research team. We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fast-paced startup-like environment and have a passion for solving complex problems at a massive scale.

AWS IP is an AWS organization chartered to build industry-specific products by diving deep with industry innovation leaders to unblock entire industries from new business models, step changes in efficiency, and transformative business outcomes. We are builders and innovators applying Amazon innovation mechanisms and AWS technologies, like machine learning and IoT, to build new AWS products that empower industry customers to achieve and sustain the game changing benefits of digital transformation at scale. We are curious, passionate, fun, and like to GSD (get stuff done).

Key job responsibilities

The Senior UX Designer will work directly with product and engineering in collaboration with a global automotive industry partner. You will take technical and abstract concepts and turn them into a compelling and meaningful user experience that transforms automotive software development. You must be mission-driven, creative, and independently motivated to succeed.

As a Senior UX Designer, you will:

• Design developer experiences and cloud-based software management services for the automotive industry.

• Contribute to strategic decisions around product definitions and roadmaps.

• Brainstorm and prototype concepts, and specify designs according to use cases.

• Create end-to-end user experiences that are useful, usable, and desirable.

• Understand and advocate for customers and their needs through research and the design and development of solutions.

• Integrate business requirements and market research to assist in developing use cases and high-level design requirements.

• Design information architecture, user interface, and interaction flow of services and experiences.

• Develop personas, customer journey maps, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and prototypes.

• Facilitate design processes, present to stakeholders, and iterate on designs based on feedback and user research.

• Develop and maintain detailed user interface specifications for developer handoff.

• Contribute to product management and engineering to instill UX best practices throughout a customer’s journey.

• Chart a course for yourself in ambiguous situations.

• Mentor and assist other designers.

A day in the life

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Hybrid Work

We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of UX designer or interaction designer experience

• 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 acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps

• Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity

• Experience with design tools such as Figma and digital collaboration tools like Miro

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with stakeholders to plan and execute programs that are strategic in nature

• Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards

• Experience designing in an agile development environment

• Experience designing solutions for the Automotive industry is not required but nice to have

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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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.