UX Designer, Community

Amazon.com • San Francisco, CA

72d • $106,000 - $184,000

About The Position

The Twitch UX Community team is responsible for streamer creation and viewer engagement experiences across our product ecosystem, building and maintaining a cross-platform live streaming service that supports the growth and development of streamer based communities. A Community UX Designer is expected to lead design work at the project level, work with senior XFN partners, represent work to executive leadership, guide and mentor junior designers and will report directly to a Director of Design. Designers at Twitch are involved in development from project conception all the way through execution and iteration. You will have the opportunity to do hands-on research and collaborate closely with engineers. If you are a champion for designing for humans and create playful and caring software for your customers, you will flourish on this team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of design experience
• 3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• Experience prototyping (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash or Flash Catalyst, or Axure)

Nice To Haves

• 2+ years of mass-market consumer web / mobile products experience
• Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross functional development team of product managers, engineers, and designers
• Learn from streamers and viewers about the ways they use our services and their desires to accomplish more
• Think creatively about how to solve problems that will sustain streamers' communities
• Give back to the design community at Twitch by using and improving existing patterns and approaches
• Combine qualitative and quantitative information to develop hypotheses about customer motivations and use that to improve your designs
• Present your work to others by participating in design reviews and feedback sessions

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees