AWS Field Experience (AFX) is seeking a Senior UX Designer to shape design direction for a strategic AWS initiative serving a worldwide AWS Sales organization. In this role, you will lead end-to-end design for customer-focused, agentic experiences at global scale, while helping scale design practices across multiple solutions.
Role focus
- Lead design for both new and existing solutions, owning the end-to-end experience from early conception through execution.
- Negotiate priorities, align teams on customer problems, and contribute to product vision.
- Design complex workflows that balance divergent user perspectives across a range of technologies.
- Work within the broader org strategy by considering the holistic experience and integrating seamlessly into agentic experiences.
- Drive and participate in user experience health measurement through quantitative and qualitative inputs, and look for opportunities to work backwards from user needs.
- Scale design processes across multiple solutions, raising design quality and encouraging creative, holistic thinking across work streams.
Collaboration and leadership
- Operate as a self-starter with the ability to work autonomously while collaborating and communicating with cross-functional teams.
- Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders and end users.
- Lead at multiple levels by scaling mechanisms and processes through an org-wide lens.
- Partner with peers, senior management, program and product managers, developers, and other senior leaders to build a comprehensive understanding of customers.
Education and experience
- 7+ years of design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or above in design or human-computer interaction (HCI).
- 6+ years in a UX designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar design-related role.
- 4+ years creating user flows, wire frames, mockups, and generating assets and specifications for integration into digital products.
- 5+ years in a UX designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar design-related role.
Skills
- Knowledge of design principles including Typography, Composition, Scale, and Color Theory, and how they work together.
- Highly proficient using design software and AI tools.
Technologies
Benefits
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line)
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
About the team
- The UX team supports a diverse set of tools and technologies.
- The team aims to make sellers more effective and efficient in everyday work, saving measurable time and effort.
- Work spans the UX design spectrum from exploration and understanding to planning, design, and execution.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work proactively and independently, meet deadlines, and deliver projects and tasks.
- Strong customer service, communication, and interpersonal skills, or a background combining analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication.
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding, comfortable speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
- Experience in a fast-paced, high-tech company, completing complex tasks quickly with minimal guidance and responding with appropriate urgency.
- Experience acquiring user data (for example, usability studies and user research) and creating personas and journey maps.
- Experience in collaborative multi-disciplinary teams and working directly with developers for implementation.
- Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Master's degree or above in design or human-computer interaction (HCI).
Location: Seattle, WA (onsite)
Compensation: USD 137,800 - 186,400 per year
Minimum experience: 7 years