UX Design Manager

22 hours ago

Seattle WA United States DesignX Community Full time

DESCRIPTION

The Books Design Studio seeks a passionate and people obsessed leader to join our Reader, Subscriptions, and Growth team. Our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. In pursuit of this, our 50+ person global Design Studio provides the user research, UX, and brand design for Kindle E-readers, Kindle apps for phones & tablets, Author & Publisher tools, and book shopping experiences used by millions of readers and thousands of authors around the world.

The Reader, Subscriptions, and Growth team crafts engaging, high quality experiences for Kindle customers. In this role you will use your impressive abilities to collaborate across teams with a relentless focus on doing what’s right for readers. The ideal candidate will have a proven record of setting a vision and supporting their team members to deliver. To succeed in this role, you must have high judgement, be an innovative self-starter in driving operational excellence, and a strategic big-picture thinker who leads through others. You must demonstrate effective collaboration through your engagement with stakeholders and partnering managers.

Key job responsibilities
  • Grow and lead a talented team of designers, responsible for end to end product experiences and features across desktop and mobile Kindle reading experiences.
  • Manage the user experience design of multiple mid-to-large-sized programs through leading a design team.
  • Influence product roadmap and champion user-centered design culture.
  • Model behavior that exemplifies Amazon Leadership Principles in their team and raise the design bar for the organization.
  • Provide coaching and feedback, with an emphasis on growing senior ICs and leadership capability.
  • Create and drive adoption of design guidelines, mechanisms, best practices, process and tools.
  • Drive operational excellence across the team that cultivates a positive environment and inclusive culture.
  • Partner with leaders across disciplines (marketing, product, tech, research) to define the strategic direction and design resourcing needs.

About the team

We are a diverse, collaborative group with a passion for crafting exceptional experiences to help customers enjoy reading more. We hope you'll join us. The team is largely based in Seattle with flexible remote work days. We fully support relocation to Seattle, should that be desired.

This role would be managing a team of approximately 7 direct reports, working to motivate readers and support customers in finding their next great read.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 6+ years of design experience
  • 3+ years of leading design teams experience
  • Experience managing teams
  • Experience leading design teams in problem definition, artifact rendering, cross-functional collaboration and delivery, and user validation and measurement

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience working cross-team and synthesize feedback and input from product management, engineering, testing, and marketing
  • Experience with agile/scrum.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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