Senior UX Designer

This is a Full Time Job

Sr. UX Designer, Amazon Music, Amazon Music

As a Senior UX Designer focused on the visual experience for millions of fans worldwide, you'll own large, complex design projects end to end, from customer research and early concept through evaluation and delivery, creating immersive experiences that delight customers across our suite of surfaces. This role sits at the intersection of elevating craft and driving coherence: you'll dive deep into your own work while partnering closely with other designers to develop and refine the visual design, IA, interaction patterns, and motion design that raise the bar for the team. Through those partnerships, you'll help ensure each surface and our full product suite feel unified, leveraging customer research, frameworks like Jobs to Be Done, and shared IA patterns. Success in this role requires strong craft, critical and inventive thinking, clear design chops, motion skills, deep customer obsession, and the ability to communicate your ideas effectively to senior leaders. Being a big music fan is a big plus.

Design Disciplines: graphic design, interaction design, UI designer, system design, animation / motion

Key job responsibilities
• Own complex visual design projects end to end, from customer research and early concept through evaluation and delivery, effectively communicating design strategies and interaction behaviors throughout the process.
• Develop high-level customer experience strategy for both the near and long term, navigating ambiguity and bringing clarity to design decision-making through your work.
• Partner closely with other designers across Amazon Music to elevate the craft and raise the quality bar for what we ship.
• Develop and refine visual design, IA, and interaction patterns that drive coherence within each surface and across our full suite of experiences, leveraging customer research and frameworks like Jobs to Be Done.
• Contribute to and evolve a central design system and its application across touch, mouse & keyboard, and remote-specific features.
• Work with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, research, data analysis, and conversation design, to define requirements, assess features, and optimize experiences.
• Present design work to the UX team, product team, engineering team, leaders, and partner organizations for review and feedback.
• Proactively manage your own work queue, time, and expectations, communicating needs and tradeoffs when priorities shift.

A day in the life
As a Senior UX Designer focused on the visual experience for millions of fans worldwide, you'll own large, complex design projects end to end, from customer research and early concept through evaluation and delivery, creating immersive experiences that delight customers across our suite of surfaces. This role sits at the intersection of elevating craft and driving coherence: you'll dive deep into your own work while partnering closely with other designers to develop and refine the visual design, IA, interaction patterns, and motion design that raise the bar for the team. Through those partnerships, you'll help ensure each surface and our full product suite feel unified, leveraging customer research, frameworks like Jobs to Be Done, and shared IA patterns. Success in this role requires strong craft, critical and inventive thinking, clear design chops, motion skills, deep customer obsession, and the ability to communicate your ideas effectively to senior leaders. Being a big music fan is a big plus.

Qualifications
• 8 years of design experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• 5 years of UX designer or interaction designer experience
• Experience with UX design of complex workflows
• Degree in UX Design, Animation, Fine Arts, Cognitive Psychology, HCI, or related field
• Background across multi-platform experiences (mobile, Web, Desktop, Auto, TV, Wearables/Hearables)
• Some Motion experience (Figma and/or After Effects, AI