The Amazon Video On Demand team is seeking a talented, passionate Senior User Experience Designer to join our user experience design team. We're looking for a highly motivated person with proven user interface and visual design skills to create elegant, intuitive user interfaces that meet business needs and influence future product direction. The ideal candidate will be familiar with agile development methodologies, and thrive on rapid design and development cycles.

Responsibilities

• Analyze user interface problems and create on-brand design solutions that meet measurable business goals and requirements
• Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, and usability findings
• Use business requirements and market research to assist in developing use cases, high-level requirements
• Design the UI architecture, interface, and interaction flow of new web and on-device software applications
• Quickly yet thoroughly create process flows, wireframes, and visual design mockups as needed to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed interaction behaviors* Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications
• Present design work to the user experience team, product team, and Amazon.com executives for review and feedback
• Provide leadership in the area of ecommerce trends and user interface innovations

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role
• A portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions
• 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
• Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
• Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Familiarity with the technical considerations needed when designing for the web and web based devices
• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience
• Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Visio, and Dreamweaver
• Ability to prototype in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, or Flash
• Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides

Learn more about Amazon Video On Demand at www.amazon.com/vod

If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=837441-1812-5095

• Location: Seattle, WA
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