Sr. UX Designer, Design Systems, Project Kuiper

Amazon Kuiper seeks a Sr. UX Designer to drive the definition and design for Kuiper’s mobile and web design framework capabilities, focusing on design systems and user experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify, create, and optimize design foundations, reusable components, and high-level patterns for the Kuiper Design System.
• Deliver artifacts that raise the bar for visual and user experience design, whether you're working on wireframes, user flows, high-fidelity mockups, or prototypes.
• Partner with a multi-disciplinary product and engineering team to own the implementation of your work.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers and other stakeholders across teams and organizations to increase adoption and shape the future of our design system.
• Create and optimize the processes and tools available to our designer, developers, and other consumers to collaborate.
• Partner with our product and engineering teams to create a consistent cross device customer and user experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent design-related field; or commensurate experience.
• 6+ years of UX design or interaction design experience.
• 6+ years of design experience creating mockups, wireframes and prototypes for web and mobile applications and/or workflows.
• Experience using tools such as Figma for prototyping design concepts and for defining and documenting the user interface architecture (UI patterns, components and guidelines).
• Proficient establishing, designing and using design systems and design frameworks.
• Have an available online portfolio demonstrating samples of design deliverables (design systems, personas, journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes).
• Experience designing consumer-facing or enterprise experiences.
• Experience in applying and advocating for best practices for accessible UX.
• Experience designing for federal 508 Compliance a plus.
• 4+ years of experience working in direct collaboration with product managers, developers, and/or stakeholders.
• Experience participating in the complete product development lifecycle of successfully launched applications.
• Ability to prototype in environments like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS a plus but not required.
• Adobe Creative Cloud experience (Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar) a plus.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to articulate the rationale behind your design decisions.
• Demonstrated history of conducting user research, or assisting with the collection of user insights and feedback (e.g., customer interviews and usability studies) and leveraging research in your designs.
• Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity and a track record of leading design projects that have launched.

Key Skills

• UX design
• Interaction design
• Design systems
• Wireframing
• Prototyping
• User research
• Collaboration
• Accessibility best practices
• Federal 508 Compliance
• HTML, JavaScript, CSS
• Adobe Creative Cloud