UX Design Manager, Amazon Kids

Amazon • Seattle, WA

9d • $151,600 - $205,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Are you excited to focus on the experience for millions of kids across the world? Does leading a team in the creation of kids and parents experiences give you energy? Imagine being a part of a team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Welcome to the Kids design team within the Devices & Services Experience Design (DxD) organization. Everyone on the Kids design team has a meaningful impact on the user experience for both children and their parents. As Amazon Kids continues to evolve, we are looking for a talented Design Manager to lead the team.

Requirements

• 7+ years of design experience
• 3+ years of leading design teams experience
• Experience managing teams
• Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and interaction design, user-centered design process
• Knowledge of user experience principles and techniques
• Experience leading design teams in problem definition, artifact rendering, cross-functional collaboration and delivery, and user validation and measurement

Nice To Haves

• Experience working cross-team and synthesize feedback and input from product management, engineering, testing, and marketing
• Experience shipping innovative, successful consumer products
• Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or similar
• Experience with AI powered design tools such as Figma Make

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of designers responsible for end-to-end child and parent experiences.
• Manage the user experience design of multiple large programs through leading a design team.
• Cultivate and maintain frameworks and mechanisms that increase the propagation of high-quality designs while focusing designer time on the most complex, impactful work.
• Model behavior that exemplifies Amazon Leadership Principles and raise the design bar for the organization.
• Provide coaching and feedback, with an emphasis on growing individual contributors and leadership capability.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to help define business and feature requirements, user scenarios and use cases.
• Influencing and driving designers to contribute to the central DxD design system.
• Drive operational excellence across the team that cultivates a positive environment and inclusive culture.
• Partner with leaders across disciplines (product, tech, research, marketing) to influence the strategic direction.

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed