About The Position

The People Engagement Experience (PEX) is the cord across our People Engagement (PE) experiences made up of forward-thinking UX designers, researchers, writers and design technologists. PEX is revolutionizing the user experience for Amazonians across the globe. Our design work has a direct impact on the lives of millions of Amazonians, helping them achieve work-life balance and advance in their careers. We're also customer-obsessed, driving impact across the company by delivering on user-centered and business needs. We support Amazon's mission to become Earth's best employer through making it easier to acquire, train and retain employees. As a Senior UX Designer on the employee facing design systems team, you are responsible for leading design initiatives, including Figma component, pattern, and style libraries. You will work with designers and engineers across multiple organizations to create implementation strategies and timelines for the introduction of new components and standards. You will bring a scalable design approach to your work, and consider how to best deliver components, patterns, and templates that scale across products and platforms. Finally, you'll be a focused on the design details, while also understanding the technical requirements to bridge the gap between product and engineering. As a Senior UX designer, you will drive strategy for the team, and partner with customers to impact products. To succeed in this role, the candidate must be an innovative self-starter in driving operational excellence, enabling others, and working closely with engineering. The candidate must have proven the ability to succeed in a highly ambiguous, fast-paced environment. Our environment requires the skills to work collaboratively and the commitment to take ownership when needed.

Requirements

  • Have an available online portfolio
  • 6+ years of UX designer or interaction designer experience
  • Expertise in Figma

Nice To Haves

  • Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes
  • Experience with UX design of complex workflows
  • Experience working with stakeholders to plan and execute programs that are strategic in nature
  • Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
  • Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs

Responsibilities

  • Assume ownership for components, patterns, and templates for product experiences and features across desktop, native mobile and more.
  • Work closely with designers and engineers to design and implement high-quality, scalable additions to the design system.
  • Collaborate with designers to identify opportunities for unifying designs across products.
  • Create and maintain documentation describing the standards and best practices of our component library as a reference for designers, developers, and product.
  • Model behavior that exemplifies Amazon Leadership Principles in their team. Raises the design bar for the organization.
  • Implement and maintain processes for scaling, updating, and managing various parts of a design system.
  • Provide coaching and feedback, with an emphasis on growing junior Independent Contributors and leadership capability.
  • Dive deep with product managers, designers, and engineers from various domains, learning how they are serving customers.

Benefits

  • Medical benefits
  • Financial benefits
  • Equity options
  • Sign-on payments

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Career Level

Senior

Industry

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

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