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Ux Designer , Project Cicada 🔥


  • 5+ years professional experience as a UX designer, interaction designer, or product designer or related
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, or a related field, or commensurate industry experience
  • Portfolio of work demonstrating ability to create customer experiences across a range of touch-points as well as proficiency in UI and interaction design
  • Proficiency in design software such as Sketch, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite

Job summary
Project Cicada, the newest start-up at Amazon, is looking for an entrepreneurial UX Designer who can help set the vision and execute against the same for a brand-new program in a nascent and rapidly evolving domain. Customer obsession, bias for action, invent & simplify, and ownership are in the DNA of the UX Designer. The candidate will lean into their curiosity to develop expertise in this new domain. They are a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, with the ability to influence multi-functionally, and the willingness to roll up sleeves to operate in a dynamic environment.

Key job responsibilities
As the UX Designer, your key responsibilities will include:
  • Analyze customer behaviors, identify opportunities to solve problems, and create cohesive, best-in-class experiences.
  • Contribute to the architecture of near and long-term user experience visions for features and product lines across web and mobile, as well as across locales.
  • Create frameworks, conceptual diagrams, user flows, wireframes, detailed visual mockups, and prototypes to communicate high-level design strategies, while also diving deep with product and engineering to implement your vision.
  • Responsibly and effectively advocate for the customer in a corporate environment; fostering a shared understanding of the customer-centric intersection between design, technology and business.
  • Deliver high quality creative products by insisting on high standards and attention to detail.
  • Present to business, design, and executive-level leadership and support your design rationale using quantitative data, customer feedback, and usability findings.
  • Be a vocal contributor to UX practice in the org by helping build a community of practice and nurturing a thriving design culture.

A day in the life
WHAT MAKES THIS JOB AWESOME
You’ll help set and communicate a high bar for design strategy, patterns, and influence across the Amazon design organization. You will champion best practices and processes needed to drive design-led, customer-obsessed solutions in this new, innovative, and emerging space. You will be responsible for independently developing and socializing experiences that drive engagement and excitement throughout the organization – while also working closely with partners in research, design, product management, engineering, and science. You will have the opportunity to envision and craft holistic solutions for users that span the entire customer journey through design experiences that visually provoke and captivate.

About the team
As a team, we set ambitious goals, work hard and a set a high bar for our customers, selling partners and ourselves. At the same time, we value work-life harmony and the need to support each other. We are on a journey to build an inclusive team where everyone has allies and can be their authentic self. Join our team and be part of this journey.
  • 5+ years professional experience as a UX designer, interaction designer, or product designer or related
  • Master's Degree in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, or a related field, or commensurate industry experience
  • Experience working cross-functionally and synthesizing feedback and input from leadership, product management, engineering, and research
  • Ability to work across organizational boundaries and manage ambiguity to define, manage, and prioritize work
  • Experience presenting to and advising senior management; able to comfortably and confidently present to all levels within the organization in both written and verbal communication
  • Experience writing UX copy for your designs
  • Retail/e-commerce design experience in a global context

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.

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workers in New York City who perform in-person work or interact with the public in the course of business must show proof they have been fully vaccinated against COVID or request and receive approval for a reasonable accommodation, including medical or religious accommodation.

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