Job Description
As a Senior UX Designer focusing on the visual experience for millions of fans across the world, you'll be responsible for creating and owning immersive features using a multi-disciplinary skillset. You will be a subject matter expert for projects within your domain and encourage other stakeholders to think holistically. You will have an opportunity to relentlessly simplify and distill complex business processes into intuitive and elegant experiences. To be successful you must be a critical, inventive thinker with clear design chops, an excitement for understanding and using data, and an ability to communicate your ideas effectively. Being a big music fan would be a big plus.
Key job responsibilities
Create process flows, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and mockups to effectively communicate high-level design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors.
Work closely with cross-functional teams to help define business and feature requirements, user scenarios and use cases.
Develop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration and efficiency.
Proactively manage your own work queue, time and expectations, meet deadlines and communicate needs and tradeoffs if your schedule is in jeopardy.
Lead usability testing and create final design and detailed interaction behavior specifications for handoff to engineering team.
Influence, contribute, and evolve a central design system and its usage across touch, mouse & keyboard, and remote specific features.
A day in the life
In this onsite role, a
Sr. UX Designer will iterate on existing experiences and deliver new features that delight customers. You will lead UX design for a variety of projects, from discovery to workflow development, to wireframes and high-fidelity mocks. You will be working from high-level requirements to define design flows, interactions, and content strategies in collaboration with business leaders, engineers, product managers, and other UX designers. To be successful, you must be a critical, inventive thinker with clear design chops, an excitement for understanding and using data, and an ability to communicate your ideas effectively. Being a big music fan is a plus.
About the team
Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.
Basic Qualifications
8+ years of design experience
Have an available online portfolio
Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and design
Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
Figma and Design System expertise.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes
Experience with UX design of complex workflows
Experience pertaining to the entertainment industry.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit
https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations
for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Key job responsibilities
Create process flows, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and mockups to effectively communicate high-level design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors.
Work closely with cross-functional teams to help define business and feature requirements, user scenarios and use cases.
Develop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration and efficiency.
Proactively manage your own work queue, time and expectations, meet deadlines and communicate needs and tradeoffs if your schedule is in jeopardy.
Lead usability testing and create final design and detailed interaction behavior specifications for handoff to engineering team.
Influence, contribute, and evolve a central design system and its usage across touch, mouse & keyboard, and remote specific features.
A day in the life
In this onsite role, a
Sr. UX Designer will iterate on existing experiences and deliver new features that delight customers. You will lead UX design for a variety of projects, from discovery to workflow development, to wireframes and high-fidelity mocks. You will be working from high-level requirements to define design flows, interactions, and content strategies in collaboration with business leaders, engineers, product managers, and other UX designers. To be successful, you must be a critical, inventive thinker with clear design chops, an excitement for understanding and using data, and an ability to communicate your ideas effectively. Being a big music fan is a plus.
About the team
Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.
Basic Qualifications
8+ years of design experience
Have an available online portfolio
Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and design
Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
Figma and Design System expertise.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes
Experience with UX design of complex workflows
Experience pertaining to the entertainment industry.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit
https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations
for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Key skill Required
- Architecture
- Collaboration
- Design
- Development
- Disciplinary
- Encourage
- Entertainment Industry
- Inclusive
- Influence
- Information Architecture
- Intuitive
- Level Design
- Onboarding
- Usability
- Usability Testing
- Workflow
