WWGS

Amazon•Austin, TX

54d•$106,000 - $184,000

About The Position

We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Product Designer to join the World Wide Grocery Store (WWGS) Product Design team. This person will be instrumental in helping our team deliver a set of brand new beautifully crafted, highly functional digital experiences for our internal teams, suppliers and vendors. You will work collaboratively with other product designers in a fast-paced and positive environment. We need someone who is detail-oriented with a high-quality bar. The preferred candidate has experience in enterprise products, architecture, and a keen eye for detail, and the ability to recognize patterns and follow/help build supply and operation systems. Ideally, you will help us bring to life innovative and compelling design solutions that help people accomplish their goals as efficiently as possible. It doesn’t hurt if you are passionate about food, nutrition, and quality. Our behind-the-scenes effort is what makes us leaders of quality and innovation within the grocery industry. This is a great opportunity to be an integral part of the Grocery team, helping our community to live their healthiest lives.

Requirements

Experience with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, prototyping, and expert at adapting to a variety of software.
Collaborates with functional and cross-functional Team Members on a regular basis.
Impacts overall team effectiveness. May provide informal support to less experienced Team Members.
Strong communication skills and ability to effectively collaborate with other designers; and available for all key meetings throughout normal working hours.
Communicates structured information in a clear, concise, and organized fashion.
Familiar with Accessibility requirements, incl. color contrast, tagging, font size, etc.
Able to effectively present information and respond to questions in both one-on-one situations and group meetings.
Advanced ability to plan, estimate, organize, and monitor projects.
Ability to keep multiple projects on track creatively, and in accordance with stakeholder objectives and deadlines.
Understands customer, market, and industry trends and emerging challenges.
Applies business understanding to focus and drive cross-functional efforts.
Have an available online portfolio
BA/BS degree and 4-6 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

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

Provides UX/UI analysis, design, and development services across new and ongoing initiatives, platforms, and delivery channels.
Generate and translate concepts into simple and elegant user experiences and interfaces that satisfy both business and user needs.
Delivers creative concepts and assets that bring the Whole Foods Market and Amazon Grocery brands to life across digital platforms, including mobile apps, responsive web, hand held devices and touch screens (point of sale, etc.).
Develops and communicates product structure and user paths with wireframes, prototypes, site maps, and other information architecture and design tools.
Balances the ‘ideal’ product against technical constraints, business objectives, and operational processes to effectively solve user problems.
Supports and consults with other partner designers, developers, and stakeholders as concepts are developed and deployed; ensuring best practices form the basis of sound decision-making.
Serves a user advocate, championing user needs to marketing stakeholders, designers, product owners, and developers throughout the design and development processes.
Validates work via usability tests, analytics, user feedback; leads and participates in user research.
Maintains up-to-date knowledge of UX design, technical, functionality, and usability research, trends, and developments.
Consistently elevate the quality of the designs through the review cycle and attend critiques, both providing and accepting positive and constructive feedback.
VQA all our new screens designs for Accessibility requirements (color, contrast, font size, etc.), as well as other key visual requirements like consistency with new design patterns, color, font size, etc.