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Description

The Alexa Ads team is seeking a creative and customer-obsessed UX Designer to define and shape the future of Alexa experiences. In this role, you will be a key voice in designing the vision for customer-centric advertising and information opportunities, and bringing it to life. You will create elegant, intuitive user experiences that meet unique customer needs. You will work closely with other designers, researchers, product management, engineering, data science, and operational teams to successfully go from early stage product concepts to iterations and launches of new features and offerings.

Key job responsibilities

• Create world-class, user-centered designs based on market research, business requirements, customer feedback, and usability research

• Collaborate with internal and external content creators and researchers to ensure a consistent and delightful experience across all customer touch points

• Partner with the product management team to translate business requirements into use cases and high-level customer experience requirements

• Collaborate directly with software engineers and data scientists to bring the resulting designs and vision to market

• Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, and prototypes

• Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications

• Present design work to the design team, product team, and leadership for review and feedback

A day in the life

On any given day, you will work directly with product managers to understand requirements, and develop design concepts that will be reviewed with leadership. Your collaborators will include dev teams, who will help you deliver detailed visual and interaction specifications. As you work with multiple teams in a fast-paced environment, you will be embedded in a community of designers and researchers who can provide feedback and support. Because we share your emphasis on work/life balance, we'll treat your time as a scarce resource that must be respected and never taken for granted.

About the team

You will be part of the larger Alexa UX team, a group of designers, researchers, and engineers at the forefront of creating innovative new Alexa experiences on Echo devices with screens, mobile apps (Alexa App), Fire TV, tablet and other devices.

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

Bellevue, WA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of design experience

• Have an available online portfolio

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes

• Experience with UX design of complex workflows

• Ability to understand how machine learning and other complex technologies can address complex use cases and customer needs

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $211,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.