Principal Product Designer, Amazon Photos

DESCRIPTION Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve, organize, share, and relive their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members with apps available on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show and Fire TV. We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of Amazon Photos around the world and delight our customers with a product that keeps memories alive. We are seeking a Principal Product Designer to join the Product and Design team at Amazon Photos. In this role, you will collaborate with multiple senior stakeholders from Design, Product, and Marketing teams to shape Amazon Photos’ product strategies and translate them into compelling creative assets and impactful visual experiences. This role requires strong visual and interaction expertise, experienced design practice, particularly in ambiguous environments where problems need to be discovered and defined. The ideal candidate must be an independent thinker and be comfortable working with complex problem statements that require agile and bar-raising creative solutioning. They should be able to break down a creative vision into strategically nuanced beats and ideas. The Principal Product Designer should be extremely good at providing articulate and clear creative direction in ambiguity, have ability to distill stakeholder and customer feedback, and manage large scale design initiatives. Key job responsibilities • Define and drive the UX vision for new categories and concepts that impact Amazon Photos customers and roadmaps. • Operationalize customer-obsessed concept explorations. • Lead concept development in ideation sessions and design reviews. • Create customer journeys and use cases in storyboards, wireframes, visual mockups, and interactive prototypes that define the product vision. • Identify user research needs for ideation and validation. • Evangelize concepts and design to diverse audiences within Amazon Photos and across Amazon. • Use business requirements, market research, and customer feedback to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements. • Dive deep on consumer insights, product analytics, and competitive intelligence to drive product innovation. • Identify opportunities to invent and experiment with new technology and interaction patterns. • Mentoring and developing the design talent primarily within Amazon Photos Design. A day in the life Day-to-day, you will contribute to the team's efforts to think big and explore new ideas. You will invent and simplify to turn potential and preferable future thinking into tangible solutions and experiences for customers whenever possible. You'll do this by delivering high-quality prototypes, visually-forward concept videos, interaction and visual design patterns, collaborating closely with other designers, product, and engineering teams. You will work to identify, define, and help establish best practices within the organization and the broader design community to unify design processes, foster innovation and improve efficiency. About the team We are all grown-ups, respected equally. We build our relationships with each other on thoughtful, honest feedback. If someone is struggling, help them by providing respectful, timely feedback. Nobody will have the same depth of knowledge, experience and domain expertise you have for your current work. As the owner of the experience, you will have a leader who clears a path for you, and a team of peers to rely on for dialog and support. The Design team meets weekly to share our work with one another, share good news, and laugh a little. Sometimes a lot. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS • 15+ years of design experience. • An available online portfolio • Experience in life cycle design projects from design strategy through execution. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS • Experience with best practices for User Interface Design, Information Architecture, and Interaction Design. • Experience in visual design with ability to produce fresh, simple, elegant and exceedingly usable layouts and interactions and iconography. • Experience providing and effectively communicating strategic and tactical recommendations based on data. • Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Axure, Keynote, and InVision. • Experience with consumer brands and experience design, and a passion for storytelling. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $147,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $244,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. 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