Principal UX Program Manager, Design Systems, Books/Kindle

3 weeks ago


Seattle, Washington, United States Amazon Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal UX Program Manager to join our Design Systems team at Amazon. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for driving the definition, design, development, rollout, and adoption of Books design systems.

Key Responsibilities
  • Partner with Design Leadership, Product and Engineering partners, and senior stakeholders to drive the definition, design, development, rollout, and adoption of Books design systems.
  • Establish predictable, repeatable processes that help Studio leaders and contributors prioritize, plan, and execute multiple parallel projects.
  • Drive implementation and adoption of improved Studio-wide design, research, and project management tools, to empower designers across our organization to work more effectively, and more easily see and build upon each other's efforts.
  • Foster cross-org transparency by working closely with Design, Research, Product, and Engineering leaders to create, maintain and publish reporting and dashboards that share project information and illustrate progress against goals.
  • Collaborate with Design leaders and teams to adopt and leverage design systems, guidelines, and best practices.
  • Work with the Senior Manager of Central Studio Programs and cross-functional leadership to identify and implement new programs to raise the customer-experience bar for the entire Books organization.
About the 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 60+ 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.

Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience.
  • 10+ years of successful experience as a Producer, UX Program Manager, Research Program Manager, or similar role in a user experience or design team.
  • 10+ years of experience leading large projects through the full product development life cycle in a large, cross-functional team.
  • Direct experience with the creation and/or management of design systems.
  • Strong knowledge of project management tools and methodologies (Agile to Waterfall).
  • Deep understanding and knowledge of human-centered design process.
  • Experience managing UX programs and working with Design and Research.
  • Strong ability to effectively manage cross functional projects, dependencies and bottlenecks.
  • Experience escalating issues and anticipating and making hard trade-offs between business and customer need.
  • Experience gathering and analyzing large amounts of data and delivering continuous business improvements.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work effectively with tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously with minimal supervision.
  • Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
  • Passion for design, research, and reading.

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