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UX Designer II, SPEAR
Amazon • Washington, United States of America 🇺🇸
The UX Designer II will design user experiences from research to prototyping and testing, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure designs meet business requirements. They will advocate for user needs and continuously improve the overall UX through user feedback and performance analysis.
Responsibilities
- Design user experiences, from research and strategy to prototyping and testing.
- Conduct in-depth user research through methods like interviews, usability testing, and analytics to deeply understand user needs and pain points.
- Create detailed user journeys, information architecture, wireframes, and high-fidelity interactive prototypes.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and stakeholders, to ensure designs meet business requirements and technical feasibility.
- Champion a user-centered design approach throughout the organization and advocate for the needs of users.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest UX trends, best practices, and design tools, and apply innovative solutions to complex design problems.
- Continuously evaluate and improve the overall UX of products and services through ongoing user feedback and performance analysis.
- Effectively communicate design decisions and rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences.
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 prototyping (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash or Flash Catalyst, or Axure)
Key Skills
- Information architecture
- Interaction design
- User-centered design process
- User experience principles and techniques
- Collaborative team
- Working directly with developers
- Collaborating with security teams
- User-centered design methodologies
- Usability principles
- Web-based information architecture
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope and capabilities of a large company, and the spirit and heart of a small one. Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world. Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind. You'll also hear us say that at Amazon, it's always "Day 1." What do we mean? That our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon's very first day - to make smart, fa
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