Amazon
Sr. UX Designer, Prime Video
Amazon, Culver City, California, United States, 90232
Description
Are you interested in shaping the future of sports entertainment? Prime Video is re-inventing how customers connect with their favorite teams and leagues by combining high-quality live streaming, immersive interactive features, and exclusive access to some of the world's most loved sports, movies, and TV series. All from a single service available on the web, mobile, and TV in 240+ countries and territories around the world.
The Prime Video UX team is seeking a problem-solving Senior UX Designer to deliver the future vision for how customers discover and watch their favorite sports teams and leagues. You'll design innovative interaction experiences that help to shape the future of entertainment around how our customers interact with their favorite sports teams.
This role is for a hands-on designer who can establish a vision and strategy for our sports experiences, while leading the delivery of design wireframes, prototypes and design specs for sports content across all Prime Video-supported devices. You excel through innovation, creativity, and attention to detail. You are a proven strategic thinker and collaborator who flourishes in a large organization. You sincerely believe that design is more than how something looks, but also how it feels and functions. You enjoy great design debates and thrive on iterating based on customer feedback.
Key job responsibilities
Analyze customer problems and design delightful solutions with measurable impact.
Work closely with product and business teams to develop use cases and high-level requirements.
Create design artifacts like user flows, wireframes, visual mocks, and prototypes to communicate your ideas.
Develop and maintain detailed user-interface and interaction specifications.
Independently present work, socialize ideas, and manage stakeholder expectations.
Partner with technology teams to ensure we leverage the scale offered by our platform without compromising on core experience principles.
Measure the success and effectiveness of UX innovations.
A day in the life
The Senior UX Designer for Prime Video will be tasked with solving some of our most complex customer problems daily. You are expected to approach problems with a customer-centric mindset first and design solutions that solve for those customer problems. Day-to-day, you will collaborate with other designers, UX Researchers, Product Managers and Engineers to evolve our content discovery experience for sports and our other entertainment properties.
Basic Qualifications
8+ 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
Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, or similar
Preferred Qualifications
Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
Experience acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps
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.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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.
Are you interested in shaping the future of sports entertainment? Prime Video is re-inventing how customers connect with their favorite teams and leagues by combining high-quality live streaming, immersive interactive features, and exclusive access to some of the world's most loved sports, movies, and TV series. All from a single service available on the web, mobile, and TV in 240+ countries and territories around the world.
The Prime Video UX team is seeking a problem-solving Senior UX Designer to deliver the future vision for how customers discover and watch their favorite sports teams and leagues. You'll design innovative interaction experiences that help to shape the future of entertainment around how our customers interact with their favorite sports teams.
This role is for a hands-on designer who can establish a vision and strategy for our sports experiences, while leading the delivery of design wireframes, prototypes and design specs for sports content across all Prime Video-supported devices. You excel through innovation, creativity, and attention to detail. You are a proven strategic thinker and collaborator who flourishes in a large organization. You sincerely believe that design is more than how something looks, but also how it feels and functions. You enjoy great design debates and thrive on iterating based on customer feedback.
Key job responsibilities
Analyze customer problems and design delightful solutions with measurable impact.
Work closely with product and business teams to develop use cases and high-level requirements.
Create design artifacts like user flows, wireframes, visual mocks, and prototypes to communicate your ideas.
Develop and maintain detailed user-interface and interaction specifications.
Independently present work, socialize ideas, and manage stakeholder expectations.
Partner with technology teams to ensure we leverage the scale offered by our platform without compromising on core experience principles.
Measure the success and effectiveness of UX innovations.
A day in the life
The Senior UX Designer for Prime Video will be tasked with solving some of our most complex customer problems daily. You are expected to approach problems with a customer-centric mindset first and design solutions that solve for those customer problems. Day-to-day, you will collaborate with other designers, UX Researchers, Product Managers and Engineers to evolve our content discovery experience for sports and our other entertainment properties.
Basic Qualifications
8+ 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
Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, or similar
Preferred Qualifications
Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
Experience acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps
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.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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.