UX Designer

• An online portfolio of work demonstrating experience creating user-centered design solutions (flows, prototypes, wireframes) and solid visual designs (mockups and style guides)
• 5 years industry experience providing interaction design solutions for web and/or software applications
• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience as an interactive/user experience designer

Description
Are you interested in designing customer-focused, simple, and intuitive experiences to help some of the largest companies in the world migrate data to the cloud or run their workloads at the edge? AWS Snow Family is seeking a designer with a passion for thinking big and an eye for detail, who can help simplify the most complex problems of infrastructure at the edge and make them more easily accessible to new users.
AWS Snow Family helps enterprises operate effectively with their data migration projects to the cloud and by operating their workloads on the edge by providing simple and intuitive design. We also work directly with our customers all over, ensuring they have best-in-class tools to help solve their customer problems. Working for AWS Snow Family, you will have quick and direct access to customers and will build and refine your knowledge of what experiences will delight and support them. You’ll work across the AWS landscape, understanding how to simplify the complexity of the cloud into something that serves real user needs.

AWS provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. As an AWS UX Design and Researcher, you’ll work to enable our customers, from Netflix to your next-door neighbor, to harness the power of the cloud. If you want to work on some of the world’s biggest design challenges, and make tools that builders will use to create the great products of tomorrow, join our team.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

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 you'll review it regularly to ensure you're 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.

Work/Life Balance
It’s not about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

You will...

• Understand customers and their needs through market analysis, customer research, and feedback.
• Use business requirements to assist in developing use cases and high-level requirements.
• Design the architecture, interface, and interaction flow of services and experiences.
• Develop personas, customer journey maps, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Facilitate the design process, present and iterate design solutions.
• Craft, pitch, and validate long-term design strategies.
• Continually iterate and evolve the way we design for and learn from our customers.
• Chart a course for yourself and others in ambiguous situations. Mentor and develop designers within your own organization and beyond.
• Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
• Proficiency in a variety of standard design tools such as Figma, Sketch and InVision
• Fluency in best practices for information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques.
• Demonstrated history of acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps.
• Experience with UX design for complex workflows for technical customers.
• Experience working with stakeholders to plan and execute programs that are strategic in nature.
• Experience owning large-scale projects, communicating timelines, and executing independently.
• Proficient designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, Sketch, InVision, Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar.
• Strong verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Bachelor or Master's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent degree.