DESCRIPTION

Meet Alexa.

Alexa is the voice-first personal assistant AI available through over 100 million devices and counting.

(Oh, you already know her?)

Sure, she sets timers for your kid's screentime, plays your favorite music, and turns on your lights.

That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Every single day, Alexa is getting smarter and adding new skills like tracking fitness, playing games, and more. Did you know she can recommend a wine to pair well with your dinner, find the right 20-minute workout for you (or even just a 5-minute workout!), and can deliver a weather report that's specific to your address?

Your challenge (should you choose to accept it) is to make it easy for anyone and everyone to learn what Alexa can do for them, without searching a list of Alexa Skills, and as simply part of their day-to-day routine. We're looking for a UX Designer for Alexa Discovery Experiences, not only to help new customers "meet Alexa," but to help Alexa meet YOU where you are, with the greatest convenience, simplicity, and humanity.

As a UX Designer, you will lead, define, and drive multimodal and spoken language interfaces for existing and upcoming Alexa experiences and devices. You must be an innovator, since you will be expected to create solutions for exciting and ambitious ideas for which no interaction paradigm currently exists. You must be extremely proactive, because you will regularly find yourself in uncharted territory where the key to your success will be to get ahead of the curve. You must be a collaborator, as you will be working side-by-side with product managers and engineers to bring your designs to life. You must be a pragmatic visionary who can translate business needs into leading-edge customer-focused solutions. And most importantly, you must excel at conceptualizing multimodal and spoken experiences in the abstract, communicating them effectively to the larger team, and driving that vision into solid design deliverables.

As a member of a growing design team, you will also be responsible for helping prioritize the team's work and magnifying the impact of the team's output across organizational boundaries.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of design experience
• An available online portfolio
• An internet-accessible portfolio of your work. Please provide as part of your resume.
• 4+ years of professional experience as a User Experience Designer, Interaction Designer, Information Architect, or similar design-related role.
• Bachelor's degree in interaction design, human-computer (HCI), or related UX degree or equivalent experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A background in product design, UX design, multimodal design, voice design, conversational design, product design, and/or user research.
• 1+ years experience in human-computer interaction design in voice or multimodal speech interfaces
• Experience working cross-team and synthesizing feedback and input from product management, engineering, and marketing
• Experience creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes, user interface specifications
• Experience working on projects from inception to shipping product
• Experience presenting to and advising senior management
• Experience working on world-class, consumer-facing digital products across a variety of media.
• Demonstrated ability to influence product teams and product decisions via design and research.
• A track record of ground-breaking work from idea discovery & brainstorming through to delivery & learning from live product experiences. You should be able to tell us why you made decisions you made in past work, and how you approach learning & validation in new spaces.
• Exceptional communication (written and verbal), collaboration, and presentation skills.
• Recent experience with voice or multimodal speech interfaces.
• Past experience in designing or launching novel experiences and/or interaction paradigms for consumer products (software or hardware).
• Experience designing mobile web, and/or on-device mobile applications.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, work autonomously, and multi-task in an agile environment.

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.