UX Designer II, SPEAR

Description

The Special Programs, Evaluations, Assessments & Response (SPEAR) team is seeking an experienced User Design (UX) Designer to join our Security Engineering team. You'll be instrumental in developing sophisticated user interfaces for our security assessment platforms and automated evaluation systems that protect Amazon's global infrastructure. This position offers a unique blend of front end development and user design, requiring collaboration with security professionals across Amazon's diverse facilities. This role is remotely based and requires approximately 10% travel.

Key job responsibilities
- Design user experiences, from research and strategy to prototyping and testing.
- Conduct in-depth user research through methods like interviews, usability testing, and analytics to deeply understand user needs and pain points.
- Create detailed user journeys, information architecture, wireframes, and high-fidelity interactive prototypes.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and stakeholders, to ensure designs meet business requirements and technical feasibility.
- Champion a user-centered design approach throughout the organization and advocate for the needs of users.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest UX trends, best practices, and design tools, and apply innovative solutions to complex design problems.
- Continuously evaluate and improve the overall UX of products and services through ongoing user feedback and performance analysis.
- Effectively communicate design decisions and rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences.


About the team
The Special Projects, Evaluations, Assessments, and Response (SPEAR) team consists of dedicated security professionals with subject matter expertise in their respective fields. SPEAR specializes in identifying and providing recommendations for the challenging, unique, and out of the box security issues. SPEAR conducts deep dives of implemented physical, technical, and wireless security measures to ensure AWS’ customers’ information is safe and secure. SPEAR prides itself on delivering quality services to its stakeholders in a timely fashion to achieve a higher standard of security. Here at SPEAR Operational Support and Service (OS2) Security Engineering team, we build and manage a highly scalable, distributed systems and focus on the hard problems so stakeholders can focus on their business.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of design experience
- 3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience prototyping (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash or Flash Catalyst, or Axure)

Preferred Qualifications

- Fluent in best practices for information architecture and interaction design, user-centered design process, as well as strong knowledge of user experience principles and techniques
- Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
- Experience collaborating with security teams to design security tools.
- Have strong practical knowledge of user-centered design methodologies, usability principles, web-based information architecture, and design

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 $106,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $184,000/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.