Job opening - UX Designer II at Amazon (Seattle, WA)

Are you ready to define the way Amazon shapes its logistic network? Are you passionate about web based workflows? Do you like the challenge of simplifying complex processes?
Transportation is seeking an innovative, self-motivated user experience designer to help us with new design initiatives and champion a variety of business user experience improvements on our developing platform. This platform will shape the way we address; the dramatic growth across our fulfillment network, the rapidly increasing portfolio of services we will deliver, and how we will provide safe access to configure our systems.
We are looking for someone with an unfailing passion and capacity to advocate on behalf of our users. Our website design will significantly impact the user experience of our stakeholders by optimizing their ability to manage their complex day to day work tasks. As one of our designers you will be responsible for understanding the needs of our business users, defining the ! customer experience, workflow, and design of a variety of applications that make up Transportation Central.
Because the scope of this position is likely to extend across a manifold of features and business teams across our site, the ability to balance high-level, holistic reasoning with detail-oriented feature design is imperative. You must be a critical thinker with a good design sense, a strong technical background, and have an eye for making things better.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design the current experiences while planning for the direction of future iterations.
• Quickly iterate on multiple interactive design solutions and work through details.
• Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context of business and user goals.
• Develop high level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Work alongside engineers, product managers and other designers ! throughout all stages of the production cycle.
• Assess ! and optimize the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics.
• Present design work to multiple teams for review and feedback.
• Assist defining design guidelines, patterns, and libraries. Perform metrics analysis to inform design/UX optimization efforts

Basic Qualifications:

• 3 years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role.
• A strong online portfolio with demonstrated examples of designing great user-centered experiences and applications.
• Proficiency (2+ years) in a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Axure, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver.
• Bachelor’s Degree required. Degree in design or a related field strongly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design, as well as stron! g knowledge of usability principles and techniques.
• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills including the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
• Ability to prototype in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS is a strong plus.
• Ability to think strategically and execute methodically.
• Must be self-motivated to prioritize and manage work load and meet critical project milestones and deadlines.
• Experience delivering excellent design and UX projects. The ability to engage with multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven e

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