Principal UX Designer, Prime Video

Are you interested in shaping the future of sports entertainment? Prime Video is re-inventing how customers connect with their favorite teams and leagues by combining high-quality live streaming, immersive interactive features, and exclusive access to some of the world's most loved sports, movies, and TV series. All from a single service available on the web, mobile, and TV in 240+ countries and territories around the world.

The Prime Video UX team is seeking a problem-solving Principal UX Designer to deliver a future vision for how our customers will discover and watch their favorite sports teams and leagues. You'll design innovative interactive experiences that help to shape the future of entertainment around how our customers interact with their favorite sports teams and leagues within the Prime Video platform.

This role is for a hands-on design leader who can establish a vision and strategy, scale their impact by empowering other designers on the team and is a key contributor to design artifacts. You will develop strong relationships with fellow Design Leaders and partner closely with Product and Engineering counterparts throughout the product development process to launch bar-raising experiences for customers around the world.

The right candidate is a creative lead that leads by doing 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.

Key job responsibilities

- Analyze customer problems and design delightful solutions that meet measurable business goals.

- Be a strong design advocate across the entire Prime Video team and a bar raiser for quality of work.

- Work across design verticals to standardize and educate others on design systems and visual languages.

- Work closely with product teams to develop use cases and high-level requirements.

- Quickly and thoroughly create process flows, wireframes, and visual design mockups as needed to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed interaction behaviors.

- Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings.

- Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications.

- Present design work to the user experience team, product team, and project stakeholders for review and feedback.

- Partner with development teams to build experiences: provide appropriate design specifications, create assets, and review finished interfaces.

A day in the life

A Principal UX Designer for Prime Video will be solving some of our most complex customer problems daily. You are expected to approach problems with a customer-centric mindset first. Day-to-day, you will collaborate with other designers, UX Researchers, Product Managers and Engineers to evolve our content discovery experience, leading design of our most important features and functionality in the Sports space.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of professional design experience

- An available online portfolio

- Experience designing interfaces for web, mobile, and living room devices.

- Experience owning end to end product design for large-scale products.

- Strong skills in both working with and presenting to executive leaders.

- Proficiency working with Figma

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 12+ years of professional design experience

- Experience defining and executing user research methods appropriate to the questions at hand, including but not limited to field research, surveys, lab studies, remote testing, and A-B tests.

- Skill in developing rapid UI prototypes.

- Experience working with distributed teams, across multiple time zones.

- Master's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent.

- Experience working with entertainment and technology development companies.

- Experience designing for accessibility and inclusivity.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $249,600/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.