Product Designer, Amazon Music, Amazon Music

Lead UX design for projects across platforms that enhance the Amazon Music experience. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product design flows and validate designs through research and testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead UX design for projects across platforms that touch numerous aspects of the Amazon Music experience.
• Run the full experience design process (i.e., discovery, research, concept development, wireframes, high-fidelity mocks) with a particular focus on customer mindsets, complex interaction solutions, user flows, and end-to-end customer journeys.
• Work from high-level requirements, ask the right questions, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to gather all relevant information to guide design direction.
• Quickly iterate on multiple design explorations to arrive at simple, but robust solutions, accounting for complex requirements.
• Validate designs through research and testing.
• Design for current experiences while also envisioning and creating new experiences for future features.
• Stay current on emerging UX and digital behavior trends, music and design innovations, and broader technological shifts, as well as identify opportunities to incorporate best current thinking into product designs.
• Collaborate on and present work to a range of stakeholders – executives, engineers, product managers, business leaders, researchers, other UX and visual designers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of design experience.
• 3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer.
• Have an available online portfolio.
• Experience with Figma and other prototyping tools.
• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI) (preferred).
• Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs (preferred).
• Knowledge of usability principles and techniques (preferred).
• Experience acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps (preferred).
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills including the ability to present design concepts clearly and persuasively to colleagues, partners, and stakeholders (preferred).
• Ability to work efficiently and demonstrate a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment (preferred).
• Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business needs and customer expectations (preferred).

Key Skills

• Design experience
• UX design or interaction design experience
• Portfolio
• Figma and other prototyping tools
• Usability principles and techniques
• User data acquisition
• Personas and journey maps
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Bias for action
• Innovation

Benefits

• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
• A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.