Principal UX Designer, Senior Talent and Transformation (STT)

Amazon • Seattle, WA • 1h ago

Description

The Senior Talent and Transformation team enables Amazon's senior leaders (and through them, the company), to be as successful as possible in inventing and delivering on behalf of customers, today and tomorrow.

We seek a Principal UX Designer who excels in strategic thinking and navigates ambiguity. You will develop the vision for how Amazon's senior leaders lead their businesses and shape talent strategies to achieve goals.

As Principal UX Designer, you will develop proto@types for new agentic-AI services and co-design solutions that transform Amazon's internal operations. You will lead execution for AI services that enhance leadership effectiveness while partnering with designers, researchers, scientists, and change agents. Your role includes creating experiences that address the complexity of leadership roles and building personalized interfaces that enable rapid innovation and decision-making.

In this position, you will deliver solutions that simplify leadership complexity at Amazon and create engaging, human-centered experiences for senior leaders. You will develop AI-powered tools that transform talent strategy development and design solutions that scale across Amazon's diverse business units.

To succeed in this role, you must be an innovative self-starter, a strategic big-picture thinker, and a dedicated collaborator obsessed with elevating not only the work, but elevating those around you.

Key job responsibilities

Set UX vision and influence the strategic product roadmap.

Develop working proto@types to learn and fail fast.

Facilitate work sessions with executive leaders.

Own the design of end-to-end product experiences and features.

Lead design through all phases of the product development lifecycle, from discovery to launch.

Champion human-centered design culture.

Drive creative process and collaboration with cross-functional partners to propose new ideas and strategies.

Model behavior that exemplifies Amazon Leadership Principles in their team and raises the design bar for the organization.

Provide coaching and feedback, with an emphasis on growing junior designers into future leaders.

Create and drive adoption of design guidelines, mechanisms, best practices, process, and tools.

A day in the life

As a Principal UX Designer, you will be working with product and engineering stakeholders closely on day-to-day basis. You will independently own major experiences, and collaborate deeply with other UX designers and research across teams, connecting individual features to a holistic, wide-ranging experience. You will share design work regularly with design team peer review, stakeholder review, and leadership.

About the team

Our team harnesses the power of design thinking to deeply understand our customers. We are highly motivated by accessibility and inclusion. We work on unique problems and define experiences that reinforce Amazon's unique culture.

Basic Qualifications

12+ years of design experience

Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or 12 years of equivalent professional experience

Available online portfolio demonstrating relevant work

Experience with design and prototyping tools such as Figma and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS

Proficiency with current web and accessibility standards

Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills including the ability to communicate design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences at varying levels of the organization

Experience in collaborative team environments and direct work with senior developers

Fluency in best practices for design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with UX design of complex workflows

Experience with co-design and rapid prototyping

Experience leveraging AI tools in the product design process

Experience designing agentic AI experiences

Experience "vibe coding"

Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards

Ability to turn around rigorous wireframes and mockups in an iterative, agile environment

A master's degree in Design, Information Science, Computer Science/HCI, or a design-related discipline such cognitive psychology.

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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations 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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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