Senior Ux Designer, Design Systems, People Engagement Experience, Stencil

The People Engagement Experience (PEX) is the cord across our People Engagement (PE) experiences made up of forward-thinking UX designers, researchers, writers and design technologists. PEX is revolutionizing the user experience for Amazonians across the globe. Our design work has a direct impact on the lives of millions of Amazonians, helping them achieve work-life balance and advance in their careers. We’re also customer-obsessed, driving impact across the company by delivering on user-centered and business needs. We support Amazon's mission to become Earth's best employer through making it easier to acquire, train and retain employees.
As a UX Designer on the PEX Design Systems team, you are responsible for leading design initiatives, including building out responsive components using variants, tokens, and other organizing principles. You will work with designers and engineers across multiple platforms to create implementation strategies and timelines for the introduction of new components and standards. You will bring a scalable design approach to your work, and consider how to best deliver components, patterns, and templates that scale across products and platforms. Finally, you’ll be a focused on the details, while also understanding the technical requirements to bridge the gap between product and engineering.
To succeed in this role, the candidate must be an innovative self-starter in driving operational excellence, enabling others, and working closely with engineering. The candidate must have proven the ability to succeed in a highly ambiguous, fast-paced environment. Our environment requires the skills to work collaboratively and the commitment to take ownership when needed.
Key job responsibilities
* Assume ownership for components, patterns, and templates for product experiences and features across desktop, native mobile and more.
* Work closely with designers and engineers to design and implement high-quality, scalable additions to the design system.
* Work with designers to identify opportunities for unifying designs across products.
* Create and maintain documentation describing the standards and best practices of our component library as a reference for designers, developers, and product.
* Model behavior that exemplifies Amazon Leadership Principles in their team. Raises the design bar for the organization.
* Implement and maintain processes for scaling, updating, and managing various parts of a design system.
* Provide coaching and feedback, with an emphasis on growing junior Independent Contributors and leadership capability.
* Dive deep with product managers, designers, and engineers from various domains, learning how they are serving customers.
A day in the life
The Senior UX Designer, Design Systems will be working with design and engineering closely on day-to-day basis. While this designer independently owns the strategy and creation of new components, patterns, and layouts, they will also collaborate with other UX designers in the same team on connecting individual features to a holistic experience. UX Researchers and UX Copy Writers will support you in user research and UX content. This designer will share design work regularly with design team peer review, stakeholder review and leadership. More importantly, every work day is full of fun, engagement and building meaningful connections with each other.
About the team
We are a multidisciplinary team creating truly meaningful products and experiences that empower and connect millions of Amazon employees. Our team consist of designers, researchers and writers, and is very diverse in terms of educational background, gender, race, skills, and location.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Edinburgh, MLN, GBR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 6+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
- Experience working with stakeholders to plan and execute programs that are strategic in nature
- Experience acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps
- Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, or similar
- Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
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