DESCRIPTION
Come help the AWS Marketplace and Amazon Partner Network teams reinvent the way software is discovered, deployed, bought, and sold in the cloud! AWS Marketplace is the software "app store" for AWS Enterprise and Small Business customers and we're looking for a UX Designer to help us re-envision the Marketplace experience and help execute our next wave of Innovations. We're a customer-obsessed team with a wide UX surface area. We are seeking a team member who is passionate, self-motivated, curious and who wants to collaborate to deliver great experiences in order to continue transforming one of the world's largest industries.
As a UX Designer for AWS Marketplace, you will lead, define and drive the experience for our customers all over the world. You will be responsible for thinking big to develop innovative solutions to improve the Marketplace in a fast-paced, agile, startup-like environment. You will also work closely with engineering, product management, marketing, company leaders, and our customers to successfully go from early stage concepts to launch. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open and collaborative peer environment. You are a thoughtful, dedicated and a creative self-starter with industry experience in shipping compelling user experiences to millions of customers.
The candidate selected must obtain and maintain a security clearance at the TS/SCI with polygraph level. Upon start, the selected candidate will be sponsored for a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.
Key job responsibilities
- Create the vision for designing, communicating and implementing the user experience for multiple products for buyers and sellers of AWS Marketplace across platforms; follow through with the processes and tactics to implement the vision
- Deliver on business and customer outcomes using design artifacts spanning both high and low fidelity to drive consensus around the optimal user experience
- Oversee development of detailed user-interface specifications, guidelines and pattern libraries
- Quickly yet thoroughly create process flows, wireframes, and visual design mockups as needed to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed interaction behaviors
- Analyze customer problems to create on-brand design solutions that meet measurable business goals and requirements
- Consider market analysis, customer feedback, technical constraints/opportunities, user research findings and drive data-driven decisions
- Work closely with the Product Management, Engineering, Business Development, and Marketing teams
- Regularly present your work to leaders and executives for review and feedback
- Create UX that balances consistency across all our platforms with mobile and device specific needs
A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasnt followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, dont let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
Hybrid Work
We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.
About the team
Mentorship & Career Growth
We care about your career growth too. Once you join the team, you and your manager will jointly craft a career plan and youll review it regularly to ensure youre on track to meet your goals.
Whether your goals are to explore new technologies, take on bigger opportunities, or get to the next level, we'll help you get there. Our business is growing fast and our people will grow with it.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of design experience
- 3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience prototyping (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash or Flash Catalyst, or Axure)
- Knowledge of usability principles and techniques
- Experience acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps
- The candidate selected must obtain and maintain a security clearance at the TS/SCI with polygraph level.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of mass-market consumer web / mobile products experience
- Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
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.
