Principal UX Designer - Alexa Multi-Modal

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Alexa is the personal voice-first assistant AI present in over 100 million Alexa devices. She is always getting smarter and attaining new skills to become more helpful; including the ability to present information on screen and take touch inputs. We are looking for a Principal UX Designer to help define how her voice and screen capabilities unify to provide a coherent multi-modal experience for customers.

As a principal UX designer you will drive the development of new design paradigms combining voice and touch. You will take on our most complex and foundational work guiding near and long-term investments. You will work across teams, constructing and leading multi-disciplinary working groups to inform your work and drive alignment. You will look deeply into research, commission your own studies, partner with marketing, product, design, and content teams to experiment and continually grow our understanding of customer needs, as well as consider key upcoming new experiences that introduce new dimensions to Alexa experiences. You will help continually refine and expand the vision for Alexa as her skills, customers, and contexts grow.

This role is part of Alexa's North Star Experience team. We are the creative and best practices org that works vertically and horizontally across Alexa to develop new core Alexa experiences, define new experience paradigms, develops standards, patterns, training, and resources that help teams (our and others) build better experiences. Our team includes creative writers, voice UX designers, multi-modal UX designers, user researchers, product managers, and program managers.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 10+ years of professional experience in the UX design field
· 5+ years of experience shipping consumer products
· An understanding of current speech and language technologies
· Bachelor's Degree or equivalent professional experience