If you love thinking about the future, playing with cool new technologies, and are excited about defining the ambient and spatial computing, then this might be the role for you.
Please apply online and send me a message. https://jnzer.com/work-with-me/
p.s. You will work alongside Ruby Chen and reporting to Sarah Ludwig.
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Sr UX Designer, Emerging Devices Software
We’re seeking an inventive and skilled Sr UX Designer to concept, prototype, develop, and test new-to-world products and experiences with novel interaction models and paradigms. This role will own key aspects of the user experience and is on a cross-functional special projects team, whose charter is to invent & bring to market transformational consumer products using advanced technologies. Amazon Devices (Lab126) began with the Kindle e-reader, and now invents & develops products like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Echo smart speakers, Echo Show smart displays, the Amazon Glow projector, Echo Frames smart audio glasses, and the Amazon Astro robot. We’re at the forefront of ambient computing, a new paradigm where technology is always present, interaction is intuitive, and it disappears when not in use. If you are excited about inventing the future of spatial computing and shipping your ideas to millions worldwide, we’d love to meet you.
Key job responsibilities
– Contribute across the product development process including product opportunity and use case analysis, workshop facilitation, and the creation of low-fidelity wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, interactive prototypes, and detailed specs.
– Become a domain expert through daily use of prototypes, competitive, and complementary products to develop a deep product intuition.
– Work directly with product management to identify opportunities, use case analysis, workshop facilitation in order to support product strategy.
– Use design reviews & critique to drive continuous improvement towards a minimal, polished, and delightful user experience.
– Research and understand the capabilities and limitations of advanced sensing, display, and generative AI technologies and their impact on the user experience.
– Drive qualitative user research to explore and validate product/design decisions. Regularly talk with customers, document insights, and champion features & improvements.
– Provide real-time feedback to technical stakeholders by evaluating prototypes and internal builds to improve or simplify the design spec based on constraints or new information.
– Collaborate with teams across the entire Amazon Devices & Services organization to bring cross functional features and services to life.
– Own the presentation of your strategy and decisions to senior leadership and cross-functional partners. Work within an integrated product management & CX team and side-by-side with hardware, engineering, ID and other stakeholder teams to turn user stories into detailed product requirements, mockups, and prototypes.
About the team
We thrive on creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning. The project team is anchored in downtown San Francisco, with a flexible WFH schedule with in-person meetings for co-located reviews and development. Team members can be based in the San Francisco Bay area with 3 days a week in the SF office.