Senior Interaction Designer, Prime Video Experience Design (PVXD)

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Description
Do you want to envision, design, and prototype the future of streaming?

Join the Prime Video team, and help customers find and discover the movies, TV series, and live sports they love.

Prime Video is available on the web, on mobile, and on TVs and streaming devices in 240+ countries and territories around the world.

With Original Content, video-on-demand, the most in-demand channels, and live events and sports, we make sure every one of our customers can always find something to watch.

The Prime Video UX team is seeking a customer-obsessed Senior Interaction Designer.

This role will be responsible for defining, articulating, and building prototypes for new AI-driven features that take personalization and browsing to the next level.

The right candidate leads with clarity and empathy, inspires others, and has a passion for solving problems at massive scale.

You excel through innovation, creativity, and attention to detail.

You are a proven strategic thinker and collaborator who flourishes in a large organization.

You sincerely believe that design is more than how something looks, but also how it feels and functions.

You enjoy great design debates and thrive on iterating based on customer feedback.

This role is for a hands-on leader who establishes a vision and strategy, scales their impact with proactive collaboration across cross-functional teams, and elevates the design quality of the entire team.

You will develop strong relationships with fellow designers and partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Business counterparts throughout the organization to launch bar-raising experiences for customers around the world.

As a creative lead, you have a passion for solving our customers' problems, always putting their needs first.

Key job responsibilities
- Craft end-to-end customer experiences for Prime Video, from sketches through functional prototypes.
- Experience in bringing prototypes to life though, visual design, motion design, micro interactions and animation.
- Build consistent and accessible design systems that delight and that scale to global audiences, across multiple devices and formats.
- Solve customer problems through measurable improvements that drive discovery and engagement.
- Partner with engineering and product to imagine, build and test prototypes that allow you to gather feedback on your ideas, and use that feedback to iterate and continuously improve.
- Develop and maintain detailed user-interface and interaction specifications.
- Present design work to the user experience team, product team, and project stakeholders for review and feedback.

A day in the life
The Senior Interaction Designer for Prime Video will join our new team focused on prototyping and testing interactive AI-driven experiences.

You will turn whiteboard sketches and user stories into innovative design concepts that are personalized, that respond instantly to user feedback, and that help customers explore and discover the Prime Video’s expansive library of entertainment content.

You are a systems thinker who can envision and craft a full user flow.

You obsess about the details and see your designs through to production, making sure that every pixel is perfect across every device.

You are collaborative, and work well with a cross-functional team of product managers, engineers, and data scientists.

You have excellent communication skills, and can present and sell your design ideas to your partners and stakeholders.

You put the customer at the center of your practice, and you use qualitative and quantitative data to guide your decisions.

About the team
You’ll join a fun, cross-functional team who help each other develop and thrive.

You will have a mentor and a manager that cares about you, your career, and your skills development and be expected to do the same for your team.

You will have autonomy and ownership while contributing to the supportive culture on the team.

We gather often to collaborate, ask questions, and grow together, so bring your unique skills and experience and be prepared to share, learn, and grow with us.
Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience in designing for TVs, streaming apps, video players, or game consoles.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, or similar
- Experience with UX design of complex workflows
- Experience with designing machine learning or AI products.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies.

Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.

The base pay for this position ranges from $127,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $211,600/year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Amazon is a total compensation company.

Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits .

This position will remain posted until filled.

Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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