UX Designer, Advertising User Experience
DESCRIPTION
Are you a seasoned UX Designer, passionate about new technologies, driving change through data, and using customer obsessed design processes to create innovative tools?
The Advertising User Experience team is looking for a a thoughtful and passionate UX Designer who sees technology as a way to re-imagine advertising experiences. We are a diverse team, building cutting edge tools and systems to simplify and optimize advertising as well as opportunities to measure, control, and innovate experiences of consumers with advertising. Our group functions as a start-up within Amazon, and offers a creative, fast paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you’ll be at the center of Amazon innovation.
As a UX Designer you’ll own the definition and design of how advertisers build, manage, and scale their business with Amazon Ads. You will be involved in all aspects of product development, from first brainstorming sessions to working with product management, user research, engineering, and company leaders and will tackle some of our most difficult advertising challenges. You will work in a fast paced and innovative industry, where ideas evolve and concepts turn into real solutions quickly. As a responsive and trust-building leader of the space, you must be able to handle ambiguity, program complexity and changes in emerging technologies and ensure design-led design programs drive change.
Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate and work closely with product management, engineering, sales, and research from design concept to design solution, setting UX guidelines and driving cross-team collaboration and sharing, as well as establish best practices for interaction models and user interface designs throughout the team.
- Work in a start-up style environment, where iteration is encouraged and design acumen is demonstrated through design end-to-end product ownership.
- Communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization through excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills.
- Earn trust with product managers to develop shared vision and use research and data to identify opportunities and inform decisions.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ 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)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $106,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $184,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.