UX Designer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Alexa.com, a subsidiary of Amazon, is breaking new ground in big data behavioral analytics by measuring and interpreting the activities of tens of millions of Internet users worldwide. Alexa.com combines this with deep understanding of the structure and interrelatedness of the Internet from its web-wide crawl and direct browsing measurement to provide extraordinary insights to its customers. The right individual for this role has a strong passion for creating compelling data visualization as well as for designing engaging interactions that will help us tell an actionable story to our customers.

This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious designer to make major contributions to a fast growing company backed by Amazon. For the most qualified candidates, compensation is highly competitive and features a signing bonus along with Amazon.com stock grants. In this role, you will be tasked to utilize a broad set of design skills to take projects from end-to-end.

Our small team, high-energy culture promotes transparency, socialization of ideas and mutual respect. With initiative, customer obsession and a track record of measurable results, employees are given the autonomy to contribute in a manner that suits them best.

Core responsibilities include:
· Owns and leads the design process from product thinking, to flows, to wireframes, to prototypes, to user testing, etc.
· Applies best practices from the field of user experience and user research
· Is a core contributor to product discovery process and assists in validating product ideas and designs
· Creates the necessary design assets to specify requirements to the development team
· Effectively designs interactions within the product, ranging from small feature iterations to larger, complex, greenfield experiences
· Supports their assigned product development team on achievement of agile sprint goals, working closely with Product Managers and Scrum Masters to prepare designs for development
· Applies an understanding of user analytics and KPIs to monitor the product's performance and guide product evolution
· Performs user research and customer discovery, such as interviews, observation sessions, and user tests, etc., synthesizes and shares their research to stakeholders
· Incorporates insight from their research into product designs
· Explores new ways of communicating product design concepts and supporting information to product stakeholders
· Collaborates and critiques with fellow designers to ensure that the very best work possible is being released into the market

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 2+ years of experience in interaction design, visual design, design research and user testing for software or web applications
· Has acted as a major contributor to design projects, establishing the vision, adhering to a design process, brainstorming, and managing execution
· Has a strong portfolio that showcases successful design efforts in a case study format: contains clear articulation of the business objectives, customer problems, design challenges and the path to a successful design that was measured by quantifiable results
· Has experience designing for value propositions fueled by big data, creating U/I that serves large sets of data and designing visualizations of the data that reveal meaningful insights
· Has experience successfully executing in environments that focused on conversion, renewal and subscription (SaaS)
· Thinks about the full context of the user experience including business challenges, user needs, and technological capabilities
· Proficient using tools for pre-visualiztion, prototyping and spec creation (eg. Sketch, Invision, Omnigraffle, Adobe Creative Suite or similar)
· Has proven experience working directly with internal or external clients to gather requirements, present work, and discuss feedback
· Understands fundamentals of visual design
· Formal study of user experience design