Designer

Amazon’s Corporate Communications marketing team is seeking an experienced and scrappy User Experience Designer. We’re looking for someone with strong user interface, usability, and visual design skills to improve the customer experience on Amazon’s corporate storytelling platforms, as well as the design, look, and feel of our other stakeholder communications tools such as email communications and events collateral.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a user experience designer;
• Bachelor’s degree in design, or related degree;
• An available portfolio or samples of work demonstrating user-centered design solutions;
• Experience with a variety of design tools including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver;
• Knowledge of usability principles and techniques;
• Experience providing detailed specifications and optimized HTML and CSS prototypes for development team;
• Experience creating mockups and style guides; and
• Experience creating other creative as needed, including infographics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated visual design expertise; capacity for creating fun, highly usable designs and layouts, and a propensity towards simplification;
• Demonstrated ability to design with customers in mind;
• Ability to turn around rigorous wireframes and mockups in an iterative environment;
• Ability to scope design initiatives accurately and prioritize work items appropriately;
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills;
• Publishing design experience strongly preferred;
• Ability to prototype in HTML/CSS and JavaScript; and
• Proficiency with web standards and accessibility compliance.