Sr. UX Designer, Design Systems, Amazon Leo

Key job responsibilities

• Identify, create, and optimize design foundations, reusable components, and high-level patterns for the Leo Design System
• Deliver artifacts that raise the bar for visual and user experience design, whether you're working on wireframes, user flows, high-fidelity mockups, or prototypes.
• Partner with a multi-disciplinary product and engineering team to own the implementation of your work.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers and other stakeholders across teams and organizations to increase adoption and shape the future of our design system.
• Create and optimize the processes and tools available to our designer, developers, and other consumers to collaborate.
• Partner with our product and engineering teams to create a consistent cross device customer and user experience.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent design-related field; or commensurate experience.
• 6+ years of UX design or interaction design experience
• 6+ years of design experience creating mockups, wireframes and prototypes for web and mobile applications and/or workflows.
• Experience using tools such as Figma for prototyping design concepts and for defining and documenting the user interface architecture (UI patterns, components and guidelines).
• Proficient establishing, designing and using design systems and design frameworks
• Have an available online portfolio demonstrating samples of design deliverables (design systems, personas, journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing consumer-facing or enterprise experiences.
• Experience in applying and advocating for best practices for accessible UX. Experience designing for federal 508 Compliance a plus.
• 4+ years of experience working in direct collaboration with product managers, developers, and/or stakeholders
• Experience participating in the complete product development lifecycle of successfully launched applications
• Ability to prototype in environments like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS a plus but not required
• Ability to manage multiple projects and make impact in a fast-paced environment.
• Adobe Creative Cloud experience (Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar) a plus
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to articulate the rationale behind your design decisions.
• Demonstrated history of conducting user research, or assisting with the collection of user insights and feedback (e.g., customer interviews and usability studies) and leveraging research in your designs
• Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity and a track record of leading design projects that have launched.