Amazon’s Global Retail Catalog Systems (GRCS) Team is looking for a passionate, results-oriented, innovative user experience designer to lead design of new software tools enabling Amazon’s employees to manage product data for products sold by Amazon globally.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to help define business and feature requirements, user scenarios and use cases.
- Relentlessly simplify and distill complex business processes into intuitive and elegant UIs.
- Create process flows, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and mockups to effectively communicate high-level design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors.
- Provide design leadership to technical teams by fostering a shared understanding of the customer-centric intersection between design, business and technology through on-going application reviews.
- Be resourceful and creative to overcome obstacles and turn challenges into opportunities.
- Minimum 10 years industry experience providing interaction design solutions for web and/or software applications.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience creating great user-centered design solutions.
- Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills including the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
- Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs.
- Comprehensive understanding of the current state of web technology and best practices.
- Strong practical knowledge of user-centered design methodologies, usability principles, web-based information architecture and design.
- Ability to define patterns and advocate for consistency, without repressing inspiration or inhibiting innovation.
- Ability to work gracefully and have a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment.
- An unfailing passion and capacity to advocate on behalf of our users.
- Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business needs, and customer expectations.
- Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Balsamiq, Omnigraffle, Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio, and Dreamweaver.
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience as an interactive/user experience designer.
- Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards.
- Ability to create functional prototypes in HTML, JavaScript, CSS.
- Experience with agile/scrum.
- Familiarity with the technical considerations involved in designing for complex systems.