Principal UX Designer

Amazon • New York, NY

3d

About The Position

Revolutionizing the storytelling experience is just part of an Audible UX Designer’s daily to-do list. You’ll craft refined interface elements and improve usability for harmonious listening anytime, anywhere, on any platform – including iOS, Android, web, and Alexa. Like us, you’re customer obsessed, and every decision you make will be shaped by your profound understanding and curiosity of the customer experience. Just when it seems a product is perfected, you’ll envision a thoughtful new way to take it further. Your creativity will take deep customer insight and transform it into innovative experiences that will continuously evolve the UX, all while discovering new ways to unleash the power of the spoken word.

Life inspires your work. You look to yourself for insight, and can’t help keeping a running list of ways to improve your own UX. You’re most creative when working through situational restraints, from everyday life hacks to professional milestones. You always strive for more, an expert in proactive design thinking. No stone is ever left unturned; you’re all about asking the big questions and the small ones. The only thing more exciting than validating a solution is sharing it with your team. And as a collaborator and mentor, you’ve seen first hand how constructive feedback and a growth mindset create an environment where everyone thrives. You’re ready to hone your craft and broaden your design skills, but the journey with your team is what drives you.

Requirements

• 10+ years of design experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• Experience with best practices for User Interface Design, Information Architecture, and Interaction Design
• Experience in life cycle design projects from design strategy through execution
• Have an online portfolio or samples of work on resume, demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns, across desktop and mobile devices
• 10+ years of experience as a user experience designer, product designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role
• Experience in a range of design approaches, methods, and tools that you use to plan, concept, and prototype complex projects

Nice To Haves

• Experience providing and effectively communicating strategic and tactical recommendations based on data
• Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Axure, Keynote, and InVision
• A master’s degree in Design, Information Science, Computer Science/HCI, or a design-related discipline such cognitivepsychology
• Experience leveraging AI tools in the product design process
• Experience designing for AI-enabled features
• Experience mentoring and elevating senior-level design talent
• Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
• Able to take ambiguous design problems and work with stakeholders and user research insights to craft design solutions grounded in customer needs and business goals
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining high-quality output in all deliverables
• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills including the ability to communicate design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences at varying levels of the organization

Responsibilities

• Envision and bring to life intuitive, scalable, and engaging experiences
• Facilitate work sessions with executive leaders
• Champion human-centered design culture
• Drive creative process and collaboration with cross-functional partners to propose new ideas and strategies
• Provide coaching and feedback, with an emphasis on growing junior designers into future leaders
• Create and drive adoption of design guidelines, mechanisms, best practices, process, and tools

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal