Product Designer, Amazon Music, Amazon Music Job at Amazon Music in Culver City

Overview

Product Designer, Amazon Music role at 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. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, Researchers, Engineers, Program Managers, other UX and Visual Designers, and others across the organization, working from high-level requirements to define product design flows, interactions, design patterns, and immersive customer experiences. You will identify opportunities to incorporate best current thinking into product designs, while 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.

Key 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 journeys.
• Work from high-level requirements, ask the right questions, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to gather information to guide design direction.
• Iterate on multiple design explorations to arrive at simple, robust solutions that accommodate complex requirements.
• Validate designs through research and testing.
• Design for current experiences while 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 thinking into product designs.
• Collaborate on and present work to stakeholders including executives, engineers, product managers, business leaders, researchers, and other UX/visual designers.

About the Team

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. We offer experiences across music, podcasts, and live events, with tiers of service and benefits across Prime and Amazon Music Unlimited. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in design, HCI, or related field
• Experience collaborating with developers for implementation of designs
• Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Experience acquiring user data (usability studies, user research) and creating personas and journey maps
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills with the ability to present concepts clearly and persuasively
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
• 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 status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable laws and ordinances.

If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation during the application process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.