Description
DESCRIPTION:
Amazon is seeking a designer to work on visual and product design for the About Amazon website, which serves news and information about the company to external audiences. This role is on the Amazon News team, which sits within Amazon’s Communications & Corporate Responsibility org.
In addition to visual design, this person should have strong knowledge of web design and mobile UX best practices, as well as an understanding of motion graphics and animated GIF creation. They should also have experience working with design tools like Figma and Content Management Systems.
We want someone who embraces innovation and experimentation, and delivers results with executional excellence. This person must be comfortable working in a fast-paced newsroom-like setting and be willing to roll up their sleeves to get projects done.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- 3+ years of professional non-internship marketing experience
- Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
- 3+ years experience designing interactive storytelling, products, and tools
- A portfolio of work that shows 3+ years understanding user-centered design principles and showcases your process along with finished design work.
- Figma experience or similar prototyping tools.
- A proven track record of collaborating with stakeholders, outside vendors, and various participants on digital design projects that continuously evolve.
- Experience working with data and analytics to make strategic design decisions; basic understanding of SEO.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience designing around editorial content, ideally at a digital news publication or tech company.
- Experience creating visual graphic digital assets at-scale.
- Motion graphic and animation experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting.
- Experience designing web products around user behavior and knowledge of how to use design to encourage engagement.
- Demonstrated ability to operate successfully across multiple groups and business owners; comfortable working in a collaborative environment.
- Knowledge of accessibility principles and best practices.
- Self-driven—enjoys taking responsibility and making things happen.
- Ability to work autonomously across numerous projects and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where change is constant.
- Experience writing design requirements to front-end developers.
- Ability to communicate with front and back-end engineers to identify UX problems and collaborate to define paths to solutions.
- Has a mobile-first mindset—being able to set responsive breakpoints for various web layouts and be able to confidently recommend UI additions or hide elements across device viewports.
- Experience designing at-scale for international partner teams and scaling design systems and modular frameworks for localization to multiple countries and languages.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.