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Are you intrigued by or passionate about Machine Learning (ML) and ready for your next UX challenge? Do you wonder what artificial intelligence and data science will look like in 10 years? The Amazon SageMaker team is looking for passionate and innovative design leaders who will guide our design efforts in this emerging and exciting field.

About you

You are an experienced design leader, ready to champion human centered design to simplify complicated and painful customer tasks and activities in data science and machine learning. You feel at home working in a diverse, multi-disciplinary design team that collaborates closely with scientists, product managers and engineers.

You have deep knowledge and practical experience in all aspects of UX design for software applications, from user research and idea generation to interaction design and functional prototyping. You focus on details and obsess over ways to improve the customer’s experience. You have big ideas and aren’t afraid to lead with design. You’re a strong design storyteller and are comfortable presenting your ideas to stakeholders.

You might have concerns about the job requirements and the AL & ML problem space, but still feel like you’d be a good fit. Regardless of any practical experience with AI, we’re looking for talented, motivated, senior designers to bring their unique talents and leadership skills to our team—and we’re flexible in order to find the right candidate.

Key job responsibilities
We need a creative and customer-obsessed Sr. UX Designer to help drive key initiatives across the SageMaker family of products. Your work will help define, simplify, and improve the tools that empower millions of people working on our platform.

You’ll be responsible for leading design activity and driving deliverables like concept sketches, user scenarios & customer journeys, workflow diagrams, storyboards, wireframes, user interface designs, and prototypes. You’re an expert at using Creative Suite and Figma, and are comfortable creating prototypes of varying degrees of fidelity.

A day in the life
• Design products that delight a wide range of personas working with code, data, and machine learning models.
• Help a growing UX team develop a comprehensive design vision, approach, and strategy.
• Lead design projects through all phases, from user research and exploratory prototypes to design reviews, delivery, and usability testing.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively within cross-functional teams that span design, product, engineering, and management.
• Conduct and participate in design reviews with a range of stakeholders across the organization.
• Help innovate on the future vision of what an AI/ML platform looks like and how it should function.

About the team
The SageMaker Studio is focused on the most significant technologies shaping our collective future. The platform is responsible for creating revolutionary approaches to the systems that drive the development and deployment of AI and machine learning models on a global scale. This team solves fundamentally human problems, making the creation of transformational and highly disruptive technologies more meaningful and usable for the data science community and beyond.

To do this, we are building a new kind of design practice that brings together a diverse group of multi-disciplinary design thinkers and doers to tackle complex product design challenges in the machine learning domain. Our goal is extend AWS’s domain leadership in AI/ML and drive global recognition for product design excellence by serving critical customer needs.

About AWS

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Hybrid Work
We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our US Amazon offices.

This team is part of AWS Utility Computing:

Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 8+ years of design experience
– Have an available online portfolio
– Experience with UX design of complex workflows
– Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
– Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, or similar
– Experience working with stakeholders to plan and execute programs that are strategic in nature

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Experience acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) and creating personas and journey maps
– Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $211,600/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.

USA, WA, Bellevue