Senior UX Designer for Conversational Robotics

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,300 - 244,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is hiring a Principal UX Designer to define what it feels like to live with Fauna robot: how it earns trust, communicates intent, expresses character, and becomes a valued presence in someone’s home.

You will shape the robot’s interaction vocabulary alongside researchers, scientists, and engineers, and drive key design work from concept through production toward launch.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in UX design, interaction design, or experience design.
• Portfolio demonstrating work on character-driven, embodied, conversational, or physically interactive systems
• Experience defining experience strategy and interaction frameworks for novel product categories
• Demonstrated ability to work across disciplines and influence technical direction through design
• Experience creating and communicating design vision through narrative artifacts (storyboards, journey maps, concept videos, behavioral prototypes)

Responsibilities

• Shape the robot’s personality and identity by defining a north-star experience vision for how people live with, interact with, and develop relationships with Fauna’s robots
• Establish interaction design principles that guide how the team approaches robot interactions
• Create the artifacts that make interaction concepts tangible and evaluable: storyboards, behavioral scripts, journey maps, interaction flows, motion/timing studies, and concept videos
• Partner with the science and engineering teams to ensure design intent is achievable within technical constraints - and push back when the constraints should change
• Direct user research that exposes our blind spots through systematic, principled exploration
• Mentor and elevate the team’s design craft by establishing critique rituals, raising the bar for interaction quality, and growing the practice as the team scales

Skills

UX design

Character-driven design

Embodied systems

Narrative artifacts

Storyboards

Journey maps

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Influence on technical direction

Job description

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is hiring a Principal UX Designer to define what it feels like to live with Fauna robot: how it earns trust, communicates intent, expresses character, and becomes a valued presence in someone’s home.

You will shape the robot’s interaction vocabulary alongside researchers, scientists, and engineers, and drive key design work from concept through production toward launch.