User Experience Designer, Edge Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a talented and passionate user experience designer to join our growing design and research studio. You will contribute to the product roadmap, drive future concepts, and deliver new experiences for Edge services like Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, AWS Global Accelerator, and more.

Throughout the strategy, design, and development lifecycle, the designer will work collaboratively with a strong design team, engineers, product managers and executives.

AWS provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. AWS UX Design and Research works to enable our users, from Netflix to your next-door neighbor, to harness the power of the cloud. If you want to work on some of the world's biggest design challenges, and make tools that builders will use to create the great products of tomorrow, join our team.

The ideal candidate has experience in digital enterprise products or software as a service, with strong blue sky/ideation skills, robust holistic systems thinking, deep attention to detail, and a proven history of turning difficult tasks into simple and delightful experiences for customers.

We care about your career growth too. Once you join the team, you and your manager will jointly craft a career plan and you'll review it regularly to ensure you're on track to meet your goals. Whether your goals are to explore new technologies, take on bigger opportunities, or get to the next level, we'll help you get there. Our business is growing fast and our people will grow with it.

* Contribute to the design of useful, usable, and desirable products in a team environment.
* Understand customers and their needs through market analysis, customer research, and feedback.
* Use business requirements to assist in developing use cases and high-level requirements.
* Design the architecture, interface, and interaction flow of services and experiences.
* Develop personas, customer journey maps, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and prototypes.
* Facilitate the design process, present and iterate design solutions.
* Chart a course for yourself in ambiguous situations. Mentor and assist junior designers and interns.