Principal UX Designer, Alexa AI

Amazon strives to be the world’s most customer-centric company, where customers can research and purchase anything they might want online or offline. We set big goals and are looking for people who can help us reach and exceed them. The Amazon Device and Services team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including Kindle eReaders, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Echo, Ring, Blink, Eero, Halo, Kuiper and Zoox. We are also the home of Alexa, a cloud-based intelligent voice assistant, to provide information, answer questions, play music, control your smart home and much more. Alexa is integrated into many of our products and partner products and many thousands of devices work with Alexa.

The Alexa AI Information team is looking for a Principal UX Designer who leads through their work and is comfortable with all stages of the product lifecycle; from early generative research to initial product definition, from white boarding new interaction models to creating highly refined prototypes. From pitching new concepts to internal and external stakeholders to testing new concepts with customers. A successful candidate will have a excellent track-record of designing and delivering high-quality and widely-adopted consumer internet products.

Key job responsibilities
* Lead high priority design projects that are often high-stakes, ambiguous and complex in nature
* Foster a customer-obsessed design culture by sharing best practices, evangelizing design principles and influencing product strategy
* Define, develop and socialize a clear vision for design innovation and big thinking while not sacrificing speed of delivery
* Provide leadership and design direction, influencing across teams and giving thoughtful, detailed and actionable design feedback
* Promote collaboration and facilitate communication with stakeholders at all levels and across diverse disciplines and geographies
* Work cross-functionally to drive elegant design solutions from early concept through final implementation and iteration
* Use data and customer insights to confidently share design solutions with senior leaders
* Use systems-level design thinking to drive design solutions from your team that scale
* Present design work to executive leadership and other senior stakeholders

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Boston, MA, USA | Irvine, CA, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Santa Barbara, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA