Senior UX Designer @ AWS

The Mom Project is partnering with AWS to transform and enhance their world-class Cloud Platform by adding more talented & passionate women to their growing Amazon Connect Team. Whether you're looking to return after a career break or just eager to work for an employer that supports working parents, our amazing partnership is dedicated to diversifying one of the most influential tech organizations in the world. AWS is committed to supporting and integrating their employees from day one through unrivaled benefits, comprehensive training and career-enhanced goal setting.

The AWS Connect team is growing and looking for a Senior UX Designer who leads by doing, values diversity of thought and background, has a passion for solving problems at massive scale and brings their best self to work every day. You will improve, iterate, and reimagine the product experience to shape the next generation of AWS software. You will also partner with a wide variety of internal and external customers to craft a modern, elegant BI experience for one of the fastest growing areas of software.

Who Are You?
You have an “anything is possible” mindset when faced with highly ambiguous and complex problems.
You’re proud of your work, your skills and expertise – but you’re not cynical, inflexible.
You love being part of a highly collaborative and high-energy team that isn’t afraid to swing for the fences or exceed expectations even on tactical projects.
You have a deep background in complex data products, geek out over customer experience, visualization and machine learning and believe that no experience is perfect unless it delights customers in unexpected ways.
You have demonstrated design acumen and believe in the power of strategic design to differentiate experience and increase customer loyalty.
You are an influencer who doesn’t hold your ideas as precious and who iterates quickly, based on data, and delivers recommendations and analysis that tell the story of the customer experience we are delivering.
You have a proven track record of inventing and simplifying elegant information architectures that make the complex feel simple to the end user.

What Will You Accomplish?
You will be responsible for leading a variety of design initiatives across a brand new suite of features.
You will work alongside product management, product/visual/interaction design, and engineering to define and build the essential lovable product.
You understand how to have deep customer focus, the ability to dive deep and invent, and the ability to make hard decisions fast.
You will contribute to the design of useful, usable, and desirable products in a team environment
You will create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, and usability findings

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· 5+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role
· 3+ years of experience designing for mobile, voice, web and web based devices
· Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or 6+ years equivalent professional experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Experience designing user interfaces for data visualization or data insight products.
· Experience designing for mobile, touch, voice and web.
· Ability to prototype in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS etc.
· Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides
· Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
· Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role Experience with a variety of design tools such as Sketch, Invision, XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks etc.
· A portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating user-centered design solutions
· Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques

Apply today for the potential to redefine your career at one of the world's most
innovative companies with a defined commitment to building a diverse and inclusive
workforce. Please indicate in your summary if you have applied for a role for AWS/Amazon within the last 6 months.