Offers “Amazon”

Expires soon Amazon

Sr. UX Motion Designer, Device Design Group

  • Seattle (King)

Job description



DESCRIPTION

Amazon's Device Design Group has launched revolutionary products like Echo, Fire TV, Alexa Communications, and more. Are you interested in joining the team to lead Amazon's next innovation?

Our design studio is looking for an exceptional Sr. UX Motion Designer to join our growing Alexa experience design team. You will concept and craft unique and compelling motion design for Alexa experiences, collaborating with designers, researchers, engineers and product managers throughout the design and development lifecycle. As a tastemaker and storyteller, you will advocate for design excellence – contributing to product vision, and collaborating with a team that defines and designs user interfaces, frameworks, and the interaction, visual, and motion design patterns for Alexa Mobile, Multimodal and domain experiences. This role is based in Seattle, WA.

The ideal candidate for this role will have a keen eye for elegant, modern design, and UI patterns. You think holistically, and craft the "why" of all that we ship – advocating for your design solutions by putting them in context of business and customer goals. You have a mastery of After Effects and other software for creating user interface animations and rapid mockups, motion studies and prototypes. You are at ease both visualizing an experience in the abstract and then driving that vision into concise motion design deliverables and hands-on building with engineering teams. You can drive the creative review cycle, craft delightful design solutions, and elevate the motion experience of millions of Alexa customers around the world.

Learn more about working as a designer at Amazon, visit https://amazon.design/ and our Dribbble team at https://dribbble.com/AmazonDesign.

Key Responsibilities:
· Crafting motion UX behaviors, systems and animations that orient, guide and add delight for customers
· Produce motion studies for user flows, leadership presentations and quickly iterating on multiple design solutions
· Work strategically with peer and partner interaction, visual and voice designers in an open and collaborative environment
· Lead the definition and communication of motion design guidelines, development best practices and standards
· Adapt core motion primitives to optimize experiences for both existing and emerging customer modalities
· Work with the product management team to develop a shared vision of a product/feature, close on requirements and deliver motion design to meet the product's objectives
· Partner with software engineers to leverage the scale offered by our platform without compromising on core experiential principles and customer intent
· Present design work to multiple teams and senior leadership for review and feedback
· Partner with the broader design community to extend motion experiences across the array of offerings
· Inspire and mentor other designers in the Devices Design Group

Desired profile



BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 7+ years professional experience as a motion designer or similar design role
· 3+ years professional experience as an UX motion designer
· Expertise in both motion and visual design
· Bachelor's degree in Animation, Motion, Interaction or Graphic Design or equivalent design-related field
· Experience crafting motion design and documentation for platforms such as iOS, Android, Mobile, and VR/AR
· Experience working on a collaborative team and partnering directly with developers for design implementation
· Experience in a variety of design tools such as After Effects, Sketch and other animation prototyping tools

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