Sr. Product Designer, Goodreads

Amazon • San Francisco, CA

41d

About The Position

Want to change the lives of millions of readers by making it easy to discover
books and get more out of reading?

As a Senior Product Designer on the Goodreads Design team, you’ll work with
engineers, data scientists, researchers, product managers, sales managers,
customer experts, content creators, and designers to build products that help
readers find books they'll love and get more out of them, and enables authors,
publishers and advertisers to connect with our audience of engaged readers.

Goodreads is currently reimagining our products and brand. In this role, you
will own, manage, and deliver an AI-ready design system that accelerates design
velocity and consistency across mobile apps and web. You will help the team
invent and simplify as we grow our business and continually identify new
opportunities to deliver value to all of our customers– readers, authors, and
publisher/advertiser partners. You will be responsible for maturing our design
system and tooling while up-leveling customer experiences across core product
areas: Discovery, Reading, Tracking, and Community through AI enablement. You’ll
design across all touch points including web, iOS and Android apps, and emails.

Product Design at Goodreads brings together the practices of human factors,
information architecture, interaction design, visual design, UX research, and
related disciplines into a single, customer-centric design role. Our designers
are generalists with specialties who translate customer insights and business
needs into product experiences that delight, generate visual concepts that
exceed expectations, and work with Ai and developers to deliver those concepts
with a high level of quality.

Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, and
we have over 100 million members. Our office is located in downtown San
Francisco. Goodreads is an Amazon company, so you will have opportunities to
partner with Kindle and Amazon teams to elevate the reading experience for
millions of customers.

Requirements

• 6+ years of UX designer or interaction designer experience
• 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
• Experience with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax
• Experience with scaling experiences across native iOS and Android as well as mobile and desktop web
• Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
• Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
• Experience building strategic relationships with stakeholders, including communicating and collaborating across teams and functions
• Expert in Figma, prototyping, and documentation platforms.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and design
• Experience working directly with engineering teams
• Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
• Strong visual and interaction design skills.
• Experience with managing, contributing to, and adopting design systems.
• A clear understanding of user-centered design processes and how AI can be integrated.
• Experience designing for consumer-facing and ad-supported products.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a robust AI-ready design system that accelerates design velocity and consistency across mobile apps and web.
• Clear goal definition and adoption and usage of the system across multiple teams.
• Cross-functional stakeholders aligned and engaged in system development.
• A repeatable process for scaling and evolving the system as AI and product needs grow.
• Own the design and AI enablement of our design system to deliver core reader experiences across mobile apps and web; driving adoption, evaluating system gaps, optimizing processes, and scaling to meet all product and surface needs.
• Manage the design libraries and tooling while educating the team on best practices and providing resources.
• Create customer-centered designs that incorporate customer feedback, user research, data, market trends and technical constraints.
• Create flows, wireframes, design mockups, rapid prototypes to effectively conceptualize, prove out, and deliver on exceptional product experiences.
• Partner with design, product, and engineering teams to define systems and AI enablement of design work.
• Partner with User Research and independently drive evaluative research to develop understanding for the customer and validate design choices before and after development.
• Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross-functionally, while being able to precisely articulate design rationale.
• Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed