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Sr. UX Designer, Amazon Fashion

Job ID: 436238 | Amazon Corporate LLC

Lead the design at a start-up within Amazon Fashion, which is creating a new business in one of the fastest growing and strategic areas of Amazon’s retail fashion offering.

If you are a shopper-obsessed UX Designer who seeks to craft engaging, elegantly usable experiences and interactions for fashion shopping, there is no better opportunity –anywhere on earth- than this one.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned, highly-skilled design leader who is constantly driven to simplify and elevate the customer experience. This role requires superior user experience and information architecture skills; along with excellent visual design, problem-solving, relationship and communication skills. Your experience demonstrates the ability to balance your passion for inspired, compelling, elegant designs with real-world business needs, and a drive to build and deliver.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· At least 5 years delivering experience design solutions as a UX designer, interaction designer or information architect
· An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns, across desktop and mobile devices
· Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills including the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
· Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience
· Proficiency designing and prototyping with a variety of tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, Axure, Keynote, After Effects
· Fluent in English, with impressive communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience designing customer facing retail web
· Experience working in a collaborative team, publicly white-boarding, and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
· Ability to work gracefully and have a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
· Unflappable good humor, courtesy and ability to build rapport with stakeholders, designers, developers and leaders
· Capacity to own and drive the design process by independently defining requirements, scoping projects and prioritizing tasks
· Talent for crafting imaginative and innovative design solutions while maintaining user expectations through pattern consistency and interaction harmony
· Ability to demonstrate designs with functional prototypes in HTML/CSS or Axure and create conceptual video sequences in After Effects
· Comprehensive understanding of the current state of web technology and best practices
· Strong practical knowledge of user-centered design methodologies, usability principles, web-based information architecture and design—understand accepted UX process standards well enough to be entitled to selectively abandon them
· Demonstrated strong visual design expertise with ability to produce fresh, simple, elegant and exceedingly usable layouts and interactions and iconography

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