Principal UX Designer, Amazon Customer Service Technology

Amazon • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Join Amazon's Customer Service Technology (CS Tech) team as a Principal UX Designer, where you'll shape the future of customer service experiences for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. This is a unique opportunity to lead the design of next-generation AI-powered tools that enable customers to efficiently resolve issues while setting the strategic direction for our UX practice.

Many of your projects will involve developing generative AI solutions to improve the customer experience. You will help enable LLMs to author content to ensure every customer and associate gets exactly what they need, when and where they need it. Your work will provide AI assistance to help Amazon's customers receive consistent and quicker resolutions while empowering associates with the assistance they need.

This Principal UX Designer position is uniquely positioned as a strategic leadership role with hands-on execution requirements. Key distinguishing factors include:
• Dual accountability: Setting strategic direction while actively designing to demonstrate quality standards and mentor other designers
• AI-first focus: Heavy emphasis on designing ML-powered interfaces and generative AI solutions for customer service
• Embedded partnership model: Expected to work as a peer with Principal Engineers and Product leaders from concept stage, not after decisions are made
• Measurable business impact: Direct connection to metrics like Average Call Time (ACT), task completion rates, and associate satisfaction

Requirements

• 12+ years of design experience
• Expertise in designing complex workflows for enterprise or B2B applications
• Proven track record working embedded with engineering teams as a strategic partner from the concept phase
• Proficiency with current web and accessibility standards
• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills including the ability to communicate interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences at varying levels of the organization
• Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with senior developers and architects for implementation of designs
• Fluency in best practices for design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Ability to influence technical decisions and push back constructively on engineering approaches

Nice To Haves

• Fluency in AI/ML concepts and experience designing intelligent, data-driven interfaces
• Hands-on mentorship experience that resulted in measurable skill development of junior designers
• Experience with UX design of complex workflows
• Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
• Ability to turn around rigorous wireframes and mockups in an iterative, agile environment
• A master’s degree in Design, Information Science, Computer Science/HCI, or a design-related discipline such cognitive psychology.

Responsibilities

• Help set the vision for associate-facing product experiences across our portfolio, and the underlying design systems
• Partner as a peer with Principal Engineers and Product leaders from concept to launch, influencing product direction before decisions are made
• Drive AI innovation by designing interfaces that leverage generative AI to improve customer service efficiency
• Create user-centered designs incorporating telemetry data, customer feedback, and technical parameters
• Develop best-in-class user interface designs, flows, and interaction models for complex workflows
• Build lightweight prototypes and design deliverables in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Design UI architecture and interaction flows based on business requirements
• Create process flows, wireframes, and visual mockups to communicate interaction behaviors
• Present design solutions to stakeholders including executives for review
• Analyze interface challenges and develop measurable business-focused solutions
• Partner with business teams to define use cases and high-level requirements
• Translate abstract concepts into concrete, data-driven design solutions
• Collaborate with and influence product management, engineering, and UX leaders from concept to launch
• Work directly with senior developers and architects for implementation of designs
• Raise the bar on UX design quality across the Customer Service organization
• Mentor and upskill designers, demonstrating what excellence looks like through hands-on work
• Help evolve how UX designers work, embracing new skills including AI/ML design practices
• Serve as a creative director responsible for design quality across the associate-facing product portfolio

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