UX Designer - Amazon Payments

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Payments is working to change the way you pay for everything in your world. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us change the future of payments, this is your chance. We are looking for a dynamic and innovative problem solver to join as a UX Designer.

As a UX Designer on the Amazon Payments team, you should be at ease creating scenarios, sketches, story boards, wire-frames, and prototypes. The ideal candidate for this position will be able to visualize an experience in the abstract, break down complex use-cases and then be able to drive the vision into solid design deliverables. You think first from the customer's perspective, set relentlessly high standards for yourself and deliver best-in-class customer experiences. You thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and embrace the idea that failure is a critical part of innovation. You balance your passion for inspired, compelling, elegant yet simple designs with a highly analytical nature, immaculately precise execution, and a relentless drive to design, build and deliver.

Responsibilities
· Use business requirements, usability findings and market research to develop scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
· Design conceptual wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, information architecture diagrams, interaction specifications, and functional prototypes
· Develop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration and efficiency
· Translate abstract concepts into simple and elegant user interfaces
· Present design work to the user experience team and product team for review and feedback
· Quickly iterate on multiple design explorations to arrive at a simple but robust solution accounting for complex requirements
· Proactively manage your own work queue, time and expectations, meet deadlines and communicate needs and tradeoffs to Sr. UXD if your schedule is in jeopardy
· Manage ambiguity, work independently and collaboratively within a team, and switch rapidly between different projects in an agile environment
· Contribute to user interface design and development best practices and standards

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience
· 3-5 years delivering experience design solutions as a UX designer, interaction designer or information architect
· An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns, across desktop and mobile devices
· Fluent in English, with excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills including the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
· Proficiency designing and prototyping with a variety of tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Axure, Keynote, After Effects, and InVision
· Familiarity with the technical considerations needed when designing