UX Designer at Amazon Web Services in Boston, MA

[Sampada Marathe]

Amazon Web Services is hiring a UX Designer in the Boston area! For more information see https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/390862 or contact me (brow...@amazon.com) with your resume and portfolio. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can!

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon, with over a million active customers in 190 countries around the world. In 2016, AWS launched more than 1000 new services and innovative features. We maintain this rapid pace of innovation by treating each team like its own startup inside AWS, directly accountable for their customers’ satisfaction, service innovations, ambitious growth, and meeting revenue goals.

We are building a new service in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Kendall Square office located in Cambridge, MA and are seeking a talented and passionate UX Designer. In this role, you and the product team will design and build a new product that will help enterprise companies migrate their on-premises resources to AWS.

To accomplish this, you will work collaboratively with product managers, engineers, executives, and other designers throughout the design and development lifecycle. You will work closely with our customers and field teams to learn about the domain so that you can design a consumer-level experience for an enterprise product.

Key Responsibilities:

• Use analytical thinking to understand complex user problems and requirements
  
• Create intuitive, efficient, and delightful experience for enterprise users by incorporating user requirements, business analysis, user feedback, metrics, and other types of usability findings
  
• Deliver low- to high-fidelity prototypes and mockups
  
• Deliver design specs to the development team for each sprint
  
• Contribute to design patterns by incorporating modern design styles
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience
  
• At least 3 years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, or similar role
  
• A portfolio of work demonstrating experience creating great scalable user-centered design solutions
  
• Proficiency in prototyping tools such as Sketch and Axure
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience
  
• Experience with complex and modern web designs and the ability to create meaningful and delightful experiences
  
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
  
• Experience working closely with developers in an agile development process
  
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
  
• Experience with information design and data visualization
  
• Visual design training / experience with ability to create visually appealing experience
  

Jodi Brown  |  Design Recruiter  |  Amazon Web Services
e: brow...@amazon.com