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Sr. UX Designer, Alexa Partner Experiences

Amazon, Seattle, WA, United States


Description
Join the Alexa Partner Experience UX Team and design the future of partner experiences on Alexa.

Our team empowers third party experience makers, key partners/brands, and developers to create exciting voice-first multimodal experiences and interactions, across a variety of Alexa-enabled devices for their customers.

In this role you will lead projects with our partners helping to envision their experiences on Alexa as you work with stakeholders on various aspects of Alexa capabilities and functionalities. You empathize with developers and customers and thrive to shape the future of voice and multimodal interaction for people across the globe.

About the team
This Seattle, WA based role is a unique opportunity to lead the design for an exciting range of new third-party brand experiences on Alexa. We’ve launched experiences with partners including Uber, OpenTable, Grubhub, Uber Eats and Ticketmaster and we are just getting started. You’ll be joining a multidisciplinary team of UX design, voice design, and design technology that are equal parts thinkers and doers, analysts and artists, designers and customers. We like to obsess over our customer and create experiences that are better on Alexa.

You lead by doing and have a passion for solving problems at massive scale. You excel through innovation, creativity, and attention to detail. You are a proven strategic thinker and collaborator who flourishes in a large organization. You sincerely believe that design is more than how something looks, but also how it feels and functions. You enjoy great design debates and thrive on iterating based on partner and customer feedback. You excel at presenting your designs to stakeholders and partners.

You have a commitment to learning and expanding professional and technical knowledge and a desire for innovation, balanced with business needs, and customer expectations.

A day in the life
In this high visibility role you’ll drive large initiatives across customer experiences with our third party partners. You will collaborate with designers, research engineers and product to align on customer obsessed solutions. You’ll work with cross-functional experts across the Alexa organization to define a vision, invent innovative design solutions, make sure it’s right with research, ensure they are working well for customers, then review and iterate. As a leader on the team you will be an active participant in reviews, critique and the professional development and growth of the UX team and their practices.

Key job responsibilities

Collaborate and work cross-functionally with design, program, and engineering teams from design concept to design solution, setting UX guidelines, testing experiences, creating assets, and ensure bar-raising quality all the way to market.

Create the vision for developing, communicating, and implementing the user experience and associated UI framework and assets on a range of products; follow through with the processes and tactics to fulfill the vision

Work with external partners to define their experiences on Alexa

Use various inputs to identify and define exciting new concepts, opportunities, and customer problems.

Inspire, mentor, and lead a variety of designers on the UX team

Excellent verbal and written presentation skills to communicate design thinking and drive discussion and reviews.

Leverage user research, analytics and data to drive design direction.

Create pattern libraries, templates, and tools for a variety of users on our platform

Work strategically with other executives and team members across the organization

Basic Qualifications

6 years of design experience

Have an available online portfolio

Knowledge of usability principles and techniques

Experience working with and presenting to C-level executives, IT, and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent

Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity

Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or similar

Experience communicating and handling cross-functional programs including project stakeholders, technical program managers, and software development teams

Experience in a fast paced, dynamic organization

Ability to travel domestically and internationally to meet with partners.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes

Experience with UX design of complex workflows

Experience utilizing project management tools for UX like Asana.

Experience prototyping in code with industry standard tools like Kiro and Cursor.

Professional experience with the voice industry and artificial intelligence

Ability to prototype voice user experiences

Equal Opportunity Employer
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, 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.

Benefits & Compensation
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

Location & Salary
USA, WA, Seattle – 137,800.00 – 186,400.00 USD annually

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