Amazon
Senior Manager, UX Design
Amazon, Santa Clara, California, us, 95053
Job ID: 2809591 | Amazon.com Services LLC - A57We are looking for a strategic Senior Manager of UX Design to lead a team of talented designers crafting thoughtful consumer-facing experiences within Amazon's Buy with Prime design team. Buy with Prime allows millions of U.S.-based Prime members to shop directly from brands' online stores while getting Prime shopping benefits with the convenient and trusted experience they expect from Amazon. In collaboration with our partner platforms and brands, we want to ensure that the Prime experience seamlessly enhances carefully curated shopping journeys, while aligning with their values. You will work with our internal teams and our external partners at e-commerce service providers or marquee brands to integrate Prime experiences into their consumer offerings.To be successful in this role, you must be an empathetic leader who prioritizes the success of their team, has a proven track record in coaching and mentoring highly motivated designers, excels at creative problem solving, working through ambiguity, and setting up structure to meet long-term business goals. You will not only help scale the team, but work with leaders at well-established e-commerce partners to achieve harmony between their shopping experiences and our solutions. Strategic management and influencing teams is critical to be successful in the role.Our team consists of highly specialized UX Designers, Visual Designers, Researchers, and Program Managers, collaborating with internal and external teams to deliver innovative customer-facing experiences to Prime members. As a Senior UX Design Manager, you will lead a team of individual contributors, often working across disciplines, to support a suite of products within the Buy with Prime program. You will be responsible for defining the end-to-end customer experience vision and ensuring its delivery across your team. You will drive clarity in complexity, reduce bureaucracy, and remove blockers to move the organization forward. Importantly, you will set the CX bar for your organization, champion continuous innovation, and drive better customer experiences across our product and engineering teams. You will insist on operational efficiency, create mechanisms to measure and drive influence and impact, and build strong, diverse teams with complementary skills.If this sounds interesting and motivating, we would love to talk to you!Key job responsibilities
You are a role model, mentor, and motivatorYou are invested in growing people, developing talent, and creating an inclusive and inspiring environmentYou bring deep expertise in multiple facets of UX design: interaction models, prototyping, visual and motion design, IA and design systems.Drive consensus on design decisions through application of usability heuristics and dataYou prioritize effectively, use data to inform your decisions, weigh the impact and tradeoffs of decisions, and seek input where needed to drive alignmentYou work closely with product and business partners to develop a shared vision and lead a process to define and design experiences that deliver on those shared objectivesYou are comfortable navigating from ambiguity to clarity, drawing upon your expertise and design process to create structure. You proactively plan ahead, look around corners, and can see the next step (even when it doesn’t exist yet)Build and communicate empathy for the end user, aligning cross-functional peers on similar goalsYou develop processes that drive quality and efficiency to help designers accomplish more than what they could otherwiseAbout the team
The Buy with Prime UX team’s mission is to craft experiences, enabling every entrepreneur in the world to reach every customer in the world through every channel they can imagine. We work backwards from customer needs and apply insights-driven decision making to articulate a north star vision, clarify product strategy, and define a near-term MLP that is intuitive, accessible, and scalable. We ruthlessly prioritize effort based on business needs and customer impact, establishing durable mechanisms to increase designer efficiency and raise our quality bar. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we invest in the well-being and professional development of our people and maintain a transparent, empathetic, and collaborative culture.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
10+ years of design experience5+ years of leading multi-discipline Design teams (ie. visual design, interaction design, user research, etc.) experienceExperience leading design teams of 5 to 10 or more direct reportsExperience leading a diverse team in the delivery of experiences from end to end (user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity visuals)PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience presenting to and effectively advising senior leaders outside of designExperience managing teams, and collaborating with partners, across multiple time zonesAmazon 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.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $162,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $268,400/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.This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.Posted:
November 8, 2024
(Updated about 10 hours ago)
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You are a role model, mentor, and motivatorYou are invested in growing people, developing talent, and creating an inclusive and inspiring environmentYou bring deep expertise in multiple facets of UX design: interaction models, prototyping, visual and motion design, IA and design systems.Drive consensus on design decisions through application of usability heuristics and dataYou prioritize effectively, use data to inform your decisions, weigh the impact and tradeoffs of decisions, and seek input where needed to drive alignmentYou work closely with product and business partners to develop a shared vision and lead a process to define and design experiences that deliver on those shared objectivesYou are comfortable navigating from ambiguity to clarity, drawing upon your expertise and design process to create structure. You proactively plan ahead, look around corners, and can see the next step (even when it doesn’t exist yet)Build and communicate empathy for the end user, aligning cross-functional peers on similar goalsYou develop processes that drive quality and efficiency to help designers accomplish more than what they could otherwiseAbout the team
The Buy with Prime UX team’s mission is to craft experiences, enabling every entrepreneur in the world to reach every customer in the world through every channel they can imagine. We work backwards from customer needs and apply insights-driven decision making to articulate a north star vision, clarify product strategy, and define a near-term MLP that is intuitive, accessible, and scalable. We ruthlessly prioritize effort based on business needs and customer impact, establishing durable mechanisms to increase designer efficiency and raise our quality bar. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we invest in the well-being and professional development of our people and maintain a transparent, empathetic, and collaborative culture.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
10+ years of design experience5+ years of leading multi-discipline Design teams (ie. visual design, interaction design, user research, etc.) experienceExperience leading design teams of 5 to 10 or more direct reportsExperience leading a diverse team in the delivery of experiences from end to end (user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity visuals)PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience presenting to and effectively advising senior leaders outside of designExperience managing teams, and collaborating with partners, across multiple time zonesAmazon 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.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $162,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $268,400/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.This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.Posted:
November 8, 2024
(Updated about 10 hours ago)
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