Visual Designer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Do you design to make an impact? Be a part of the team helping change the way people interact with technology. Alexa, the brain behind Amazon Echo, is a cloud-based voice service that provides information, answers questions, plays music, reads the news, checks sports scores or the weather, and more—instantly. Developers make Alexa smarter by adding new capabilities called skills.

The Alexa skills developer marketing team is looking for a creative and self-directed visual designer to join our design team. Your primary charter will be to own our website, the Alexa Skills Developer Portal. As a first task, you will work cross-functionally to plan and lead our site redesign, ensuring a delightful and performant experience for each of our growing number of audience segments. You will dive deep on metrics and developer feedback, then propose design solutions that meet developer needs and solve pain points. In addition to the website, you will also work with other designers to help set and uphold the brand's look and feel across online and offline properties including top-tier event installations, the Alexa Developer Portal, the Alexa Developer Blog, newsletter, email, and social channels. Your work will help us deliver on our vision to enable developers everywhere to learn to build for voice quickly and easily.

The ideal candidate is part art, part science. You dive deep on developer research, anecdotes, and usage data in order to meet needs and solve pain points with elegant design solutions. You are customer-obsessed and you don't rest on your laurels. You push yourself to continuously improve the developer experience, proposing and delivering both large, sweeping changes and small, incremental changes. You are highly motivated and thrive in a deadline-driven environment. You insist on the highest standards and is tenacious in delivering the best-in-class developer experience. You can influence without authority and can work cross-functionally to align stakeholders to your vision.

Key Responsibilities
· Take the reins as the owner of the website's visual brand and user experience
· Drive the site redesign as well as continuous improvements
· Visualize technical ideas and concepts through engaging and delightful designs and illustration
· Use business requirements, usability findings, site analytics, and market research to develop scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
· Design conceptual wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and information architecture diagrams
· Collaborate with marketers, technical documentation writers, evangelists, and partner teams to drive a cohesive UX vision across the Developer Portal
· As site UX owner, work autonomously, establishing mechanisms and deadlines to plan and track projects
· Present work and vision to peers, partner stakeholders and leadership
· Help drive the visual brand for the Alexa Skills Kit through various visual outputs to support launches, programs, campaigns, and events

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in graphic design or equivalent professional experience
· 3+ years of professional experience working as a visual or graphic designer at a company or an agency
· A portfolio of work samples demonstrating relevant experience
· Knowledge of commercial creativity, brand development, the digital landscape, and multichannel marketing concepts
1+ years of experience working cross-functionally to lead the design process and iterate based on feedback and input from stakeholders