UX Design Manager Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Are you a leader with a passion for growing and developing a UX designers? Join Amazon's advertising team and help us create innovative experiences for millions of Amazon advertisers. At Amazon we put our customer's first in everything we do - including our advertising programs. We are investing heavily in building world class solutions that enable brands to connect with their customers- globally and at scale-where they shop, read, watch videos, and share online.

The Advertising UX team designs powerful campaign management and reporting tools that make the complex seem simple, enabling advertisers to run high-volume digital advertising campaigns with the click of their mouse. We excel at distilling the needs of a diverse user base into experiences that balance efficiency with utility.

We are a strategic and well-funded area of growth for Amazon where you'll be involved in all aspects of product development from brainstorming the next innovation to working collaboratively with user research, engineering, product management to bring it to life. You will own the experience for a wide area of the tool suite and utilize your full range of skills including

About you

You are a pragmatic manager that can translate business needs into customer-focused enterprise solutions. You are at ease visualizing an experience in the abstract and then driving that vision into solid design deliverables such as user interface designs, information architectures, and prototypes with your team. You think first from the customer's perspective and set high standards for yourself and your team in developing amazing experiences.

You have comprehensive understanding of the current state of enterprise applications and design best practices, with a critical awareness of implications on user-centered design and functionality. You are detail-oriented, comfortable working on highly technical team, skilled in using data to make decisions and able to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Please include your online portfolio and process examples in your application to be considered.

Questions?

You may already know if you're a fit, but perhaps you're worried about technology, leadership or experience requirements? Don't be - if you're the right candidate, we're flexible.

Learn more about our team here: www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/advertising-ux

Responsibilities include:

* Collaborating effectively with an agile, multi-disciplinary team to evaluate the feasibility of proposed designs and championing great UX
* Providing leadership and mentoring to your team/partners
* Responsibly and effectively advocating for customers; imparting day-to-day strategic design leadership that fosters a shared understanding of the customer-centric intersection between design, content, business and technology needs.
* Presenting design work to UX design peers, product teams and executive leadership
* Owning the end-to-end design process and deliverables
* Partnering with user researchers and product managers to appropriately assess and optimize the performance of new and existing features (using, usability findings, customer feedback, site metrics, etc.)

Please include your online portfolio and process examples in your application to be considered.

Basic qualifications