Ux Designer, Amazon Games

Description

At Amazon Games, we believe in a future where everyone is a gamer and everyone can create, compete, collaborate, and connect through games. Across all our teams and locations, we’re united by the drive to build that future together. It’s a big ambition, but we think we can do it—we’ve got the power of Twitch, AWS, and most importantly, a diverse team of talented, creative people. We’re looking for the right folks to join us and help us create, publish, and support our ambitious games.

We are looking for a UX Designer to join us at Amazon Games with an enthusiasm for teamwork, collaboration, and building player-centric innovative UX. In this role, you will work closely with our central creative team, partner with cross-functional teams in marketing and games publishing, and report to the UX Lead. A successful candidate will deliver highly usable and visually compelling experiences across a variety of touch-points including gaming product websites and upcoming around-game product initiatives.

Key job responsibilities

If you’d like to come join us, here are some things that are key to success in this role:

• Be a self-starter who is able to tackle problems within a team setting, or individually.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines on multiple concurrent projects while being flexible to changing business and technical conditions.
• The ability to meet and exceed business and marketing objectives through compelling and innovative UX design for web and online applications.
• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills as well as creative problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and promote customer advocacy.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups and detailed design specifications/guidelines.
• Develop compelling and immersive visual design in collaboration with the central creative team and engineering partners.
• Design and deliver user experiences for our gaming properties including, but not limited to, our game product websites and associated applications.

Basic Qualifications

• Have an online portfolio or samples of work on resume, demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns, across desktop and mobile devices
• 3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer experience
• Strong verbal communication and presentation skills
• 5+ years of UX designer or interaction designer experience
• Proficiency with design tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience prototyping (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash or Flash Catalyst, or Axure)
• Excellent problem solver with design innovation.
• Working knowledge of design systems
• Passionate gamer with an insatiable will to get stuff done.
• Conducts generative and evaluative user research
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $94,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $184,000/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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A2390453