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Creative Director
Amazon
Seattle, WA, United States
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DESCRIPTION
The Amazon Publishing team is seeking a talented, customer-obsessed Creative Director to join our growing design team. We offer a creative, fast paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you’ll be driving innovative features on behalf of customers. This is your chance to make history in the rapidly-growing fast-paced environment of digital content. We are looking for a dynamic and creative individual to join our team as a UX Designer in our Seattle, WA location.
You will use your design management, UX and visual design skills to create elegant, intuitive user experiences that meet evolving business needs and influence future patterns to support the bookstore and reading experiences. You will be able to translate complex customer interactions into simple, engaging user-centered solutions. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed in a fast-paced collaborative peer environment. You will work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, executives, and other designers-seeing design throughout the planning and development lifecycle for interfaces. The scope of this position extends across a manifold of features and product lines across our publishing business, so the ability to balance high-level, holistic reasoning with detail-oriented feature design is imperative.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• At least 10 years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role
• At least 2 years of experience managing a design team
• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions is a requirement for application
• Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
A passion for books and authors.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the latest interaction design patterns and trends
• Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides
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• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work gracefully and have a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
• Ability to drive the design review cycle and close on design requirements independently
• Fluency in best practices for information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Familiarity with the technical considerations needed when designing for the consumer devices
Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.