Job Information
Amazon Principal UX Designer, Prime Video in Los Angeles, California
Description
Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video is re-inventing how customers connect with their favorite shows, teams, and products by combining high-quality live streaming, immersive interactive features, and exclusive access to some of the world's most loved movies, TV series, and live sports. All from a single service available on the web, mobile, and TV in 240+ countries and territories around the world. And we're just getting started.
The Prime Video UX team is seeking a problem-solving Principal UX Designer to deliver a future vision for how our customers will discover their favorite movies and shows. You'll design innovative interactive experiences that help to shape the future of entertainment around how our customers browse and search for content within the Prime Video platform.
This role is for a hands-on design leader who can establish a vision and strategy, scale their impact by empowering other designers on the team and is a key contributor to design artifacts. You will develop strong relationships with fellow Design Leaders and partner closely with Product and Engineering counterparts throughout the product development process to launch bar-raising experiences for customers around the world.
The right candidate is a creative lead that leads by doing and has 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 customer feedback.
Key job responsibilities
Analyze customer problems and design delightful solutions with measurable impact.
Work closely with product and business teams to develop use cases and high-level requirements.
Create design artifacts like user flows, wireframes, visual mocks, and prototypes to communicate your ideas.
Be a strong design advocate across the entire Prime Video team and a bar raiser for quality of work.
Develop and maintain detailed user-interface and interaction specifications.
Independently present work, socialize ideas, and manage stakeholder expectations.
Partner with technology teams to ensure we leverage the scale offered by our platform without compromising on core experience principles.
Measure the success and effectiveness of UX innovations.
A day in the life
A Principal UX Designer for Prime Video will solve some of our most complex customer problems. You are expected to approach problems with a customer-centric mindset first. Day-to-day, you will collaborate with other designers, UX Researchers, Product Managers and Engineers to evolve our content discovery experience, leading design of our most important features and functionality in the Discovery space.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Culver City, CA, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
10+ years of design experience
Experience with best practices for User Interface Design, Information Architecture, and Interaction Design
Have an available online portfolio
Preferred Qualifications
Experience providing and effectively communicating strategic and tactical recommendations based on data
Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Axure, Keynote, and InVision
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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $131,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $244,000/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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.