Senior UX Designer

Experience mentoring designers and leading complex projects.
- Leader in best practices for UI design, as well as demonstrated experience and knowledge of UX design best practices.
- Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills; the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organisation
- An unfailing passion and capacity to advocate on behalf of our users.
- Experience in leading projects in the strategic phase - defining requirements, gathering generative data, and connecting with customer needs
- The ability to manage ambiguity, work autonomously, and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

Job summary

Are you a creative big thinker who’s passionate about design-led thinking and design systems? Do you find yourself dreaming up new ways of bringing innovative concepts to life? Have you ever wanted to make a scalable impact to the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of employees? Come be part of a team that will directly shape and influence every employee at Amazon.

We are looking for a talented and experienced design leader that has a proven track record of establishing a bold vision and delivering bar-raising, customer-centric experiences. Our team directly shapes and influences the future growth of every employee at Amazon.

In this role, you’ll work with a cross-functional, highly capable team of designers, researchers, writers, product managers and engineers, inventing and iterating on end-to-end workflows and product experiences. You’ll develop your ideas with sketches, prototypes, wireframes and story boards, and confidently communicate your vision to senior executives to influence the best experience for our customers. We're looking for someone who can bring disruptive ideas to life - you're a skilled UI designer, with the capacity to think deeply about the architecture of the product space.

We're looking for people to join our team who are passionate about the space - our work makes a direct impact on the quality of work-life for thousands of Amazonians. We are highly motivated by accessibility and inclusion. We work on unique problems, and spend a lot of our defining experiences that reinforce Amazon's unique culture.

Key job responsibilities
- Simplify and distill complex processes into simple and scalable product patterns and experiences.
- Create and rapidly iterate on ideas using process flows, prototypes, wireframes, and higher-fidelity designs to effectively communicate design strategies and product flows.
- Participate in the discovery and planning of new products and features while helping drive the design vision across our product suite.
- Define information architecture across a complex suite of product experiences.
- Lead and mentor other designers, product managers, and engineers.
- Identify opportunities to think differently about the status quo on customer experiences, based on customer research, best practices and design thinking.
- Work closely with UX Research to work back from the customers needs.
- Articulately present design vision, direction and solutions to senior leadership

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About the team

Our mission is to create innovative and inclusive experiences which make all Amazonian's work-life easier. We are a growing internal design studio, with team members in Edinburgh and Dublin. We're dedicated to transforming Amazonian experiences for employees throughout their career at Amazon. Our team is seeking an innovative and highly motivated Senior UX Designer to create foundational experiences that hundreds of thousands of Amazonians use every day.
- Experience in UI copy writing/microcopy.
- Experience in both Web and Mobile experiences

Experience in Design System processes and tooling.
- Enterprise software design experience in a global context.
- Proven track record of inclusive design best practices - understanding and commitment to web accessibility, localisation and universal design.

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