Principal Industrial Designer, Just Walk Out Technology

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Go is a new kind of physical store with no lines and no checkout —you just grab and go! Customers simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take what they want from our selection of fresh, delicious meals and grocery essentials, and go. Learn more at amazon.com/go.

Designed and custom-built by Amazonians, our Just Walk Out Shopping experience uses a variety of technologies including computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning. Innovation is part of our DNA. Our goal is to be Earth's most customer centric company and we are just getting started. We are looking for people who want to join a visionary team that continues to push the state of the art and improve the daily lives of customers.

We're addressing huge business opportunities through groundbreaking design and technology and innovating on behalf of customers. If this sounds intriguing, we'd like to talk to you about an exciting role on our team as the Principal Industrial Designer creating and launching key products in our evolving portfolio across multiple businesses. You will partner with Store Designers, Digital Designers, Brand Designers, Engineers, Software Developers, and Product Managers to invent the future of Just Walk Out Shopping experiences. Key Responsibilities include design problem definition, requirements definition, concept development, iterating and optimizing the vision for your initiatives, developing design success and measurement criteria, value engineering, system and framework design, and determining launch and multi-store strategies for your ID initiatives.

We'd love to hear from you if:
· You are scrappy, agile, and full of initiative
· You love crafting groundbreaking experiences that change customers' lives for the better
· You are a talented teacher and mentor who leads by example to bring out the best in teams and individuals
· You are an empathic, positive design leader and teammate who flourishes when collaborating closely with other disciplines and partners to bring Industrial Design ideas to life
· You enjoy diving into unknown territory and help invent simple, elegant solutions to complex design problems, often with no clear precedent in today's world
· You have an exceptional portfolio delivered projects across customer- and business-facing applications
· You are great at finding simple, elegant ways to solve for unmet customer needs within a complex space
· You are a principled design thinker and tinkerer who envisions and crafts holistic solutions for your users
· You are a self-starter who thrives on ambiguity and is comfortable wearing many hats

Key responsibilities:
· Work with development partners to create solutions that meet a high customer experience bar and fit with the technology requirements
· Deliver detailed design documentation and refined design standards to developers and partners
· Solicit and accept feedback, weigh inputs and priorities, and take part in constructive dialogue to resolve healthy debates

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· BA/BS degree in Industrial Design or Product Design
· 10+ years related experience in home, retail, commercial, industrial, mobile consumer electronics or related industry with an emphasis on Human Interaction design
· Extraordinary Industrial Design portfolio of shipped work demonstrating impactful functional design, aesthetic judgement, customer and business results
· Education in HCI, Interaction Design, Human Factors, Ergonomics, or related fields strongly preferred.
· May be substituted with significant demonstrated industry experience and accomplishments (e.g. CMFs or technical design roles for exhibits, film, or television)
· Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate design concepts and relevant project information clearly to different audiences
· Ability to manage complex Industrial Design innovation projects and deliver them to successful completion
· Experience developing “systems of systems” architectural initiatives
· Superior tactical planning and self-project management skills
· Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as AutoCAD, Rhino, Revit, SolidWorks, CREO, SketchUp, KeyShot at the appropriate fidelity
· Experience in building interactive prototypes at the right speed and fidelity to drive timely problem definition, learning, and decision-making