Job Responsibilities: Product Design

Salary: $20-$30/Hour

Company: Amazon

Location: Honolulu, USA

Educational Requirements: Bachelor's Degree

DESCRIPTION

Excellent storytelling starts with wonderful listening. At Audible, which means each role and every venture has our target market in mind. Due to the fact the identical folks that layout, expand, and install our merchandise also manifest to use them. To us, that speaks volumes.

ABOUT THIS POSITION

As the top of Product layout, you'll lead a layout practice that starts with the customer and builds from there, advocating for client needs thru the strategic planning and product development lifecycle. You and your crew will lay out progressive and intuitive experiences, put in force scalable answers, and make certain an international elegance stop-to-quit product revel in. You'll work with product and engineering leaders to prioritize, build, and decorate all consumer journeys and functions. You will set up working approaches to force systematic design enhancements to Audible’s products based totally on patron feedback, desires, and behavior.

In this role, you may record to the chief Product & Insights Officer. You may Lead our UX layout and layout structures throughout all Audible touchpoints (Apps, net, Amazon Surfaces, Voice, gadgets, vehicles, global Marketplaces, and writer gear). You will construct relationships and partner with Audible departments outdoors of design (e.g., Product, Engineering, content material, advertising, emblem, and many others.)

APPROXIMATELY THE GROUP

Consumer revel in the layout is at the heart of Audible’s purpose to be customer obsessed. The UX team works regularly to transform deep patron insights into pleasant and revolutionary product reports that pressure enterprise results and client pleasure. We're searching for a passionate and experienced UX chief who can use their layout knowledge and sturdy leadership competencies to ensure Audible continues to steer thru product innovation.

APPROXIMATELY YOU

You improve the bar. You ensure layout continuity and excellence across the service by guiding the UX approach and evolving the design system. You work with management to persuade and form tasks into compelling product studies that remedy critical strategic commercial enterprise challenges.

You are the voice of the customer. You maintain a fundamental notion that understanding customer needs creates the possibility for product innovation and drives commercial enterprise outcomes. You make certain that the client’s voice is included appropriately in the layout manner of each undertaking. You are a suggestion for the consumer throughout the corporation, helpings others to recognize our clients greater deeply and galvanizing them to do so on behalf of the client's desires.

You are a layout champion. You are a reputable and trusted layout chief across the employer. You ensure that UX is engaged at the maximum choicest factors within the manner to elevate effect. You are an endorse for design, innovation, and growing meaningful product studies. You empower teams, encourage design leaders, and push the boundaries of design across the company.

You are passionate about designing layout teams, developing and empowering the next wave of design leaders, and creating systems that allow design groups to be excessive-appearing and impactful. You iterate on hiring, operations, and organizational tactics to optimize for height performance. You version an increased mind-set, foster mental safety, and create connections throughout the business enterprise.

As Head of Product Layout, you'll...

• Act as an executive stakeholder representing UX to Audible’s senior management. Ensure teams you lead to collaborate with pass-useful partners from Product, Analytics, research, Engineering, customer support, marketing, content material, brand, and QA.
• Work with layout groups to make certain the voice of the client is sponsored by way of qualitative and quantitative facts from user enjoy research, Insights, and market research and is used as the foundation for the design method and approach.
• Transform strategic imperatives into nicely-defined tasks that aid stop-to-cease UX layout strategy. Shape and make clear the problem space, method, and scope for tasks to make sure groups are able to deliver outcomes that hold alignment with UX and organization-wide strategic imperatives.
• Monitor progress, performance, pace, and goal alignment. Have interaction in executive stakeholder evaluations on the software and challenge stage to make certain the layout route is aligned with the consumer and business dreams. Mitigate program threats via strategic resourcing, technique, and design choices.
• Pressure UX method and layout gadget standards enabling product coherence and continuity.
• Make certain collaborative surroundings for UX leaders to layout, broaden, and iterate internal UX strategies, toolsets, and techniques that enable Audible’s UX practice to grow to be greater green and influential.
• Paintings with product and business management to construct sturdy trusting relationships that grow transparency, information, and awareness of UX, selling collaboration, partnership, advocacy, and elicit help for the UX practice with outside groups.
• Construct trust with design teams through clear, optimistic, and regular communication, as well as continued investment in their careers and success.
• Constantly verify the skillsets and desires of individuals, to match them with the abilities required for the paintings, growing the conditions for a person to increase.
• Power the hiring and shaping of UX teams and their competencies to enhance the UX exercise's skills and retain to raise the bar of talent.
• Ensure the distribution and combination of UX skills in the organization is appropriate to drive consequences and raise average fine.
• Foster a team way of life that is attractive to a various range of high-appearing candidates.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of revel in as a user experience dressmaker, Product clothier, interaction clothier, or comparable role.
• 4+ years of experience with main managers and teams of 30+ designers throughout multiple initiatives and virtual touchpoints.
• Resume or portfolio of case research that demonstrates revel in growing fantastic user-centered design answers across virtual touchpoints that introduced business outcomes.
• Established revel in with fast, iterative design and improvement tactics.
• Enjoy growing a UX method that helps commercial enterprise desires and aligns with patron dreams.
• Music file of constructing and mentoring excessive performing groups.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated capability to take initiatives and remodel them into projects and plans that deliver consequences.
• Demonstrate a communication skillset appropriate for influencing senior govt-degree audiences internally and leading the outside to the design group.