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Description

Are you someone with a big-picture vision and a drive to make that vision a reality? Do you enjoy working on cutting edge technology in a fast-paced team environment to shape creative, high quality, and engaging customer experiences? Join us on the Amazon Devices OS Team.

As a Sr UX Designer, you are a hands-on designer and leader who will be responsible for developing best-in-class developer experiences in a fast-paced, agile, startup-like environment. You are a customer-focused, detail-obsessed, creative leader who has successfully designed and delivered developer facing products at broad scale. You also have strong design, business, and technology intuition and you’re able to think big and stay connected to the details. You are a tireless advocate for design excellence with an impressive ability to build bridges and collaborate with other teams and stakeholders. Design Systems background is a plus.

You’ll partner with Amazon Devices stakeholders and product teams to decide what many of our Next Generation products and services will look and behave like on Amazon and Non-Amazon devices. As an influential design lead on the product team, you will inform our design activities via in depth user research, partner out-reach, and iterative implementation and analysis. You will identify opportunities, problem solve, and create engaging experiences for millions of customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

• Be responsible for contributing to, developing, and iterating on concepts for experiences on Amazon Developer tooling in a fast-paced team environment

• Participate in and contribute to the planning process for new features and projects both end customer and developer facing

• Own the production of world-class deliverables and documents for presentation to engineers, managers, peer design teams, and senior executives

• Refine your designs by considering live customer data, market research, and usability studies

• Assist in the development and evaluation of personas, user stories, and usability studies

• Develop and contribute to wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes

• Work with a top-notch engineering team to understand and respond to their design needs

A day in the life

Are you someone looking to showcase your skills? How often have you had an opportunity to be a founding member of a cross-functional team tasked with innovating the building blocks of device software? If this sounds intriguing, then we’d like to talk to you about a new role at Amazon.

About the team

The Amazon Devices org designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Dash, and Amazon Echo.

The Device OS team invents ways to help developers to create complex applications deployed on multiple device types. Developer experience ensures the software product is fully usable, well-designed, functional, and easy to navigate.

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

Madrid, M, ESP

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in design

• Have an available online portfolio

• Experience with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax

• Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards

• Knowledge of usability principles and techniques

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes

• Experience with UX design of complex workflows

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