Sr. UX Designer, Alexa Skills Developer Tech - UX ID-12612

April 24, 2025

Description

Help shape the future of Alexa+.

Our team empowers experience makers, key partners/brands, entrepreneurs, and developers to leverage Alexa to create exciting voice-first multimodal experiences and interactions, across a variety of Alexa-enabled devices for their customers.

This Seattle, WA, or Denver, CO, based role is a unique opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team of extraordinary UX designers, voice designers, design technologists, and UX researchers who are equal parts thinkers and doers, analysts and artists, designers and customers who are shaping the future of human-machine interfaces.

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A day in the life

In this high visibility role you'll drive large initiatives across customer and developer experiences. You will collaborate with designers, research engineers and product to align on customer obsessed solutions. You'll work with cross-functional experts across the Alexa organization to define a vision, invent innovative design solutions, make sure it's right with research, ensure they are working well for customers, then review and iterate. As a leader on the team you will be an active participant in reviews, critique and the professional development and growth of the UX team and their practices.

About The Team

The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) UX team is a cross-functional team that own the Alexa developer experience (DX) as well as net new customer experiences for brands on Alexa+. Our mission it to drive the developer flywheel, delivering industry leading DX's through deep developer understanding and the use of our own tools to design and deliver experiences. We are not only experience creators but advocates for LLM innovation and AI best practices during a time of massive change and innovation in our space.

Basic Qualifications

6+ years of design experience
Have an available online portfolio
Experience with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax
Experience collaborating cross-functionally with design, program, and engineering teams
Proven experience driving design for a large ambiguous project or a suite of projects.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes
Experience with rapid prototyping
Professional experience with the voice industry and artificial intelligence
Ability to prototype voice user experiences with readily available tools
Experience with working in a fast-paced software development environment
Desire for innovation, balanced with business needs, and customer expectations
Commitment to learning and expanding professional and technical knowledge

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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