Amazon

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.
• 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.
• Show the ability to translate complex business, technology, and customer requirements into practical plans that drive measurable results.
• Stay current with industry landscape and trends to make informed decisions around UX an UI design.

A day in the life

Marketing CX sets the foundation for digital experiences and content—focusing on the performance of content, experiences created by other teams, and the success of teams leveraging digital channels to engage their customers. It ingests research, data, and customer objectives for product, partner, brand, growth marketing, demand generation, localization, and other AWS stakeholder organizations, and adapts them for the digital space. It creates mechanisms that improve stakeholders' ability to create optimal customer content and delightful experiences. Studio X is the creative engine within Marketing CX. A diverse team of researchers, designers, copywriters, and information architects, they generate ideas, creative solutions and architectures that ultimately bring the AWS Brand to digital life.

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including Product and Program Managers, Designers, Researchers, Engineers, Digital Marketers, and Digital Strategists.
• Participate in group creative critiques with cross-functional roles.
• Present design concepts to key stakeholders and leadership.
• 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 all devices
• Design for research/testing including interactive prototypes, animatics, and/or HTML/CSS prototypes.
• 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 with pattern, interaction and motion models.

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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

• 5+ years of design experience
• 3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, or Certifications in relevant fields
• Expertise in design thinking, co-creation, and strategic thinking
• Demonstrated results in designing user interfaces and interactive experiences
• Ability to adopt and apply emerging technologies to immersive experiences
• Understanding of designing for accessibility, usability, and performance
• Expertise in device-specific affordances including mobile, tablet, and desktop for web and native applications
• Demonstrated results in designing reusable components, patterns, and templates for design systems or libraries
• Expertise in designing high-fidelity interactive prototypes
• Tools - Figma (required), Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator (preferred) Principle, Protopie, WebFlow or Framer (preferred), Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate (preferred)
• Able to communicate effectively in English, within technical and business settings.

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
• UX/UI design experience across global markets
• Micro-animation, Lottie animation, and/or motion design
• App or Product design
• HTML/CSS prototyping
• CMS (AEM, AMS, CQ)

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