Amazon Music is hiring: Product Designer, Amazon Music, Amazon Music in Culver C

Overview

As a Product Designer on Amazon Music, you will help define and build customer-facing experiences from discovery and research to concept development, and through product launches. This role will partner and support the Marketing and Growth team, producing wireframes, user-flows, high-fidelity mocks, and design specifications spanning our broad spectrum of supported platforms. In this role, you will collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, Researchers, Engineers, Program Managers, other UX and Visual Designers, as well as many others across the organization, working from high-level requirements to define product design flows, interactions, design patterns, and immersive customer experiences. The team will look to you to help identify opportunities to incorporate best current thinking into product designs, while also envisioning and creating new experiences for future features. To be successful you must be an inventive, customer-focused problem solver with clear design chops, an excitement for understanding and using data, and an ability to communicate your ideas effectively. Being a big music & podcast fan is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead UX design for projects across platforms that touch numerous aspects of the Amazon Music experience.
• Run the full experience design process (discovery, research, concept development, wireframes, high-fidelity mocks) with a focus on customer mindsets, complex interaction solutions, user flows, and end-to-end customer journeys.
• Work from high-level requirements, ask the right questions, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to gather all relevant information to guide design direction.
• Quickly iterate on multiple design explorations to arrive at simple, robust solutions that account for complex requirements.
• Validate designs through research and testing.
• Design for current experiences while also envisioning and creating new experiences for future features.
• Stay current on emerging UX and digital behavior trends, music and design innovations, and broader technological shifts, identifying opportunities to incorporate best current thinking into product designs.
• Collaborate on and present work to a range of stakeholders – executives, engineers, product managers, business leaders, researchers, and other UX and visual designers.

About The Team

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of design experience
• 3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer
• Have an available online portfolio
• Experience with Figma and other prototyping tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor\'s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI)
• Experience working in a collaborative team and directly with developers for implementation of designs
• Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Experience acquiring user data (e.g., usability studies, user research) and creating personas and journey maps
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills, including the ability to present design concepts clearly to colleagues, partners and stakeholders
• Ability to work efficiently and demonstrate a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
• Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business needs and customer expectations

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include safe and cooperative work, adhering to standards, effective communication, and compliance with laws and policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse relationship with job duties. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across US markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $106,000/year to $184,000/year, commensurate with location and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Equity, sign-on payments, and other benefits may be provided. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our career site.

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A3083558