Senior UX Designer, Studio X

Senior • On-site

$127,100 - $211,600/yr

Boston, MA , +8

DESCRIPTION

The Studio X team is seeking a highly skilled UX Designer with experience designing for digital marketing experiences. They’ll be a hands-on leader, leveraging the latest technology and their expertise to establish delightful and immersive experiences. They will raise the bar on UX Design as a discipline and help scale design consistency across AWS Marketing. They will guide individuals and teams through the design and research process, establish guardrails and foundations when designing for emerging technologies such as new media format and AI, and highlight design best practices.

Key job responsibilities
• Experience designing user interfaces and interactions for digital experiences and systems.
• Use design systems to maintain consistency across product pages and other marketing experiences.
• Create both low and high-fidelity prototypes for testing and validation of designs.
• Expertise in designing for multi-modal interactions, combining various input modalities (e.g., voice, text, gestures, images, documents) and output modalities (e.g., visuals, audio, haptics) in AI-powered experiences.
• Experience with designing adaptive or personalized user experiences and standard CMS engines to tailor content, interactions, or recommendations based on user behavior or context.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and ability to present complex concepts and ideas.
• Team player capable of collaborating with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and digital marketers to create high-quality deliverables.
• Collaborative designer capable of leading and actively participating in creative critiques, design discussions, and contributing documentation of best practices.
• Show the ability to translate complex business, technology, and customer requirements into practical plans that drive measurable results.
• Ability to work efficiently and demonstrate a bias for action with proactive communication in a fast-paced, challenging, and often ambiguous environment.
• Stay current with industry landscape and trends to make informed decisions around UX an UI design.
• Explore emerging technologies and tools like Figma, Framer, Protopie, and other prototyping platforms
• Build skills in motion graphics, visual effects, and interactive design to create immersive experiences.

A day in the life
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including Product and Program Managers, Designers, Researchers, Engineers, Digital Marketers, and Digital Strategists.
• Design discovery—analysis of research insights, requirements gathering, and defining customer needs.
• Create design artifacts—user stories, user journeys, personas, and user flows.
• Brainstorm, sketch, and design website experiences and UI design patterns for smartphones, tablets, laptops, and larger screens.
• Design for research/testing including interactive prototypes, and HTML/CSS prototypes.
• Participate in group creative critiques with cross-functional roles.
• Create Engineering-ready design specs including device-break point, micro-animations, soft/hard guardrails, and design system documentation.
• Contribute to the expansion of a central design system in Figma with pattern and interaction and motion models.
• Present design concepts to key stakeholders and leadership.

About the team
Studio X is a multi-disciplinary group of creatives, crafting end-to-end and cross-channel customer experiences steeped in customer data. The team is a collaborative group of Visual and UX Designers, Researchers, Copywriters, and Information Architects. The team is a center for design excellence, driving consistency, AWS Brand advocacy, and developing a scalable design system for digital marketing experiences. The team’s core talent spans the US coasts from Seattle to New York, and partners closely with global teams.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes
- Experience with UX design of complex workflows
- Expertise in design thinking, co-creation, and strategic thinking
- Demonstrated understanding and practice of motion design and interactive animation
- Demonstrated results in UI and Interactive Design
- Ability to adopt and apply emerging technologies to immersive experiences
- Proficiency with AI tools and AI product design
- Understanding of designing for accessibility, usability, and performance
- Expertise in device-specific affordances including mobile, tablet, and desktop for web/app
- Demonstrated results in designing reusable components, patterns, and templates for design systems or libraries
- Expertise in designing interactive prototypes
- Data informed design that demonstrates application of data-based decision making
- Micro-animation, Lottie animation and motion design
- UX design experience across global markets.
- App or Product design
- HTML/CSS prototyping
- CMS (AEM, CQ)
- Advanced use of AI tools - both third and first party

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $211,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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