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Creative Director, Amazon Fashion
Amazon
Seattle, WA, United States
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Creative Director, Amazon Fashion
Create new ways for millions of people to shop for fashion online.
If you are a shopper-obsessed design leader who crafts engaging, elegantly usable experiences and interactions for fashion shopping, there is no better opportunity –anywhere on earth- than this one.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned, highly-skilled design leader with a track record of delivering elegant, elevated solutions for large-scale retail customer experiences. This role requires understanding of all aspects of the UX design process; along with excellent problem-solving, relationship and communication skills. Your experience demonstrates the ability to balance your passion for inspired, compelling, elegant designs with real-world business needs, and a drive to build and deliver.
Responsibilities include:
• Lead new creative and holistic thinking across diverse product releases, platforms, and devices; drive the direction, style, and methodology of design and accessibility.
• Champion cohesion and consistency in UX design that unites a growing family of purchasing features, while continuing to nurture and evangelize a fervent culture of invention and innovation.
• Lead cross-team conceptual development; be a strategic thought leader in how to implement unmatched experiences that represent the most customer-centric intersection between design, business, content, and technology.
• Foster Amazon’s culture and principles within the group while setting new standards in executional and operational excellence.
• Recruit, assess, hire, develop, and retain an organization of outstanding UX personnel.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• A total of 7+ years of experience in User Experience Design that includes 3+ years of people management and leading teams. Experience managing a team in a high growth environment; prior success with managing employees across multiple products and/or programs.
• Experience providing direction to deliver on priorities and build repeatable, sustainable processes that support operational excellence.
• Fluency in best practices for User Interface Design, Information Architecture, and Interaction Design; practical knowledge of User Centered Design processes and lifecycles; ability to provide and effectively communicate strategic and tactical recommendations based on quantitative/qualitative data and optimal Design practices.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the latest design concepts, emerging technologies, and other developments in the user experience field.
• Effectiveness in working across organizational boundaries to influence and deliver results.
• Exemplary analytical skills and high judgment.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills; the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
• The ideal resource will have worked in and managed e-commerce user experience design groups in large, transactional website-based organizations; they would also have experience working in a global context, with a proven ability to consider the worldwide impact of products.
• Able to translate concepts into concrete depictions to clarify ideas and advance collaboration based on shared understanding.
• Bachelor’s, or equivalent degree, in Design, HCI, or related field or equivalent professional experience with the design field.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience designing large-scale systems and applications
• Possess strong resource and planning skills including the ability to staff and manage design teams against high-level roadmaps, projects and priorities
• Strong bias for action including the ability to juggle multiple priorities and effectively deliver in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Possess excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills
• Be willing to roll up the sleeves to meet business and product deliverables
• Passion for the role of design within an organization and the ability to develop and mentor design talent