UX Design Manager: Lead High-Impact Talent Solutions

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Manager III, User Experience Design for Talent Solutions in Seattle, WA. You will lead a team of designers shaping candidate, recruiter, and hiring manager experiences across Amazon’s products, setting direction and maintaining high design quality.

You will partner with product, engineering, and UX research; coach designers through hard problems; and ensure design is integrated early in workstreams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of design experience.
• 3+ years of leading design teams experience.

Responsibilities

• People Leadership and Team Building: Manage, coach and grow a team of designers across levels, with clear expectations and honest, specific feedback.
• Own hiring for your team, from bar-raising loop participation through onboarding and ramp.
• Build career paths that develop craft and leadership together, and give designers work that stretches them.
• Create a team culture where designers critique each other's work directly and improve it.
• Design Quality and Craft Bar: Hold the quality bar for everything your team ships, across interaction design, visual craft, content and accessibility.
• Run design reviews that raise the work rather than approve it, and make the standard explicit enough that others can apply it.
• Drive adoption of shared design system components and patterns so quality scales without your presence.
• Partner with UX research so evidence, not preference, settles design debates.
• Prioritisation and Capacity: Decide what your team takes on and what it declines, against the domain's roadmap and the team's declared investment split.
• Size design effort early enough that it lands in product plans rather than arriving as a constraint.
• Match the engagement model to the ask, whether embedded, allocated, advisory or small-fix, and make the choice visible to partners.
• Keep the team's commitments, owners and dates current so capacity is legible to the wider organisation.
• Partnership and Influence: Represent design in roadmap, intake and toll-gate forums, and hold a position when the evidence supports it.
• Translate customer pain into a case senior partners act on, using the team's customer value and evidence framework.
• Build the working relationships across product and engineering that let design shape decisions early.
• Model behaviour that exemplifies Amazon Leadership Principles.

Skills

7+ years of design experience

3+ years leading design teams

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Manager III, User Experience Design for Talent Solutions in Seattle, WA. You will lead a team of designers shaping candidate, recruiter, and hiring manager experiences across Amazon’s products, setting direction and maintaining high design quality.

You will partner with product, engineering, and UX research; coach designers through hard problems; and ensure design is integrated early in workstreams.