Principal UX Designer - Amazon Prime Video

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Prime Video is changing the way people watch movies and TV shows. From one service, we're delivering versatile ways to watch hundreds of thousands of titles on the web, mobile devices, and hundreds of Internet-connected TVs, Blu-Ray players, and set top boxes and living room devices.

The Amazon Prime Video Design and User Experience team is seeking a highly motivated Principal UX Designer to conceive and develop exciting new opportunities to differentiate the Amazon Video discovery and consumption experiences.

As a key leader in the Video UX team, you will help establish our roadmap and UX architecture inspiring and working alongside a world class in-house creative team who are responsible for developing product solutions that span across all of Prime Video's product portfolio.

You are a consumer-focused, data-driven, creative leader who has successfully designed and delivered digital products at broad scale. You also have strong design, business, and technology intuition and you're able to think big and stay connected to the details. You are a tireless advocate for design excellence. You lead with strong, hands on, design and technical expertise and are skilled at developing and socializing innovative vision throughout the organization.

Responsibilities
· Helping to define and drive the vision & identity for the Prime Video customer experience.
· Going deep on consumer insights, product analytics, and competitive intelligence to drive product innovation and iteration.
· Lead brainstorming sessions and design reviews.
· Lead or participate in quick and iterative user research for ideation and concept refinement.
· Create and rapidly iterate on ideas in order to develop them, via storyboards, user flows, mock-ups, and prototypes, or other methods as needed.
· Evangelize prototyped concepts to a diverse audience, in both ad-hoc and formal presentations.
· Stay on the cutting edge of what's new in technology and user experience, identifying opportunities to and experimenting with applying new technologies and interaction patterns to customer problems.
· Inspiring, leading and developing a team of UX and Visual designers.
· Contributing to the future direction of design at Amazon with the larger Amazon Design community

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 10+ years of experience in UX design, with at least 2 years designing consumer experiences (web, mobile, device, software, or other media).
· Experience designing for a variety of device types (web, mobile, PC, etc.) and designing experiences with multiple interaction modalities.
· Expert knowledge of user experience design planning processes, information architecture and user research.
· Proficiency with design tools (Sketch, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Omnigraffle, Hype, etc).
· Excellent executive level communication and presentation skills.
· Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, or related field or equivalent professional experience.
· A strong portfolio of innovative design work that demonstrates proficiency in interaction and visual design.
· Strong bias for action and "get it done" attitude