UX Design Manager, Amazon Music Design

- 6+ years of design experience - 3+ years of leading design teams experience - Experience leading design teams in problem definition, artifact rendering, cross-functional collaboration and delivery, and user validation and measurement - Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and interaction design, user-centered design process - Experience shipping innovative, successful consumer products - BA/BS in HCI, UX Design, Cognitive Psychology or related field and experience with current design tools and tech (e.g. Figma, Adobe Suite)
Are you excited to focus on the visual experience for millions of fans across the world? Does leading a team in the creation of immersive music features give you energy? Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. Welcome to Amazon Music, where ideas are born and come to life as Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music, and so much more. Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in audio streaming, and customer engagement. As Amazon Music continues to grow, we are looking for a talented and passionate Product Design Manager to lead a nimble, inventive team. Is that you? Key job responsibilities - Grow and lead a talented team made up of designers, program managers and front-end engineers responsible for end-to-end Music experiences. - Manage the user experience design of multiple mid-to-large-sized programs through leading a design team. - Cultivate and maintain frameworks and mechanisms that increase the propagation of high-quality designs while focusing designer time on the most complex, impactful work. - Model behavior that exemplifies Amazon Leadership Principles and raise the design bar for the organization. - Provide coaching and feedback, with an emphasis on growing ICs and leadership capability. - Working closely with cross-functional teams to help define business and feature requirements, user scenarios and use cases - Influencing, contributing, and evolving a central design system and its usage across touch, mouse & keyboard, and remote specific features - Drive operational excellence across the team that cultivates a positive environment and inclusive culture. - Partner with leaders across disciplines (marketing, product, tech, research, writing) to define the strategic direction and design resourcing needs. A day in the life As the Product Design Manager at Amazon Music, you will have an opportunity to distill customer needs and business requirements into intuitive and elegant experiences. In the process, you will leverage your subject matter expertise and encourage your team and stakeholders to think holistically. You are perfect for this role if you are able to ruthlessly prioritize, influence your partners, and raise the bar for the customer experience. We are looking for a UX Manager to lead and grow a high-performing team of UX, front-end engineering and program management professionals—working collaboratively with user research, engineering, and product management through all aspects of the product design and development lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have a proven record of delivering against a vision and supporting their team's growth, and a strong online portfolio. They'll also have a deep passion for defining the future of audio entertainment across multiple platforms and modalities - mobile, desktop, TV, voice/multimodal. To succeed in this role, you must have high judgement, be an innovative self-starter with clear design chops, and a strategic big-picture thinker who leads through others. You must also demonstrate effective communication and collaboration through your engagement with stakeholders and partners, many of whom will not be in other parts of the world. Being a big music fan is a plus. About the team Amazon Music offers rich audio entertainment for customers around the world. The Product Design team partners closely with Product, Engineering and Marketing to conceptualize, iterate, and deliver audio entertainment experiences across across a variety of platforms and modalities. We take a customer-centric and strategic approach to our work, leaning into data, elevating craft, and innovating along the way. One of the most exciting aspects of being on the Amazon Music creative team is the opportunity to partner closely with a broad range of professionals. In our fast-paced, collaborative environment means, you’ll be working alongside music industry, product design, marketing, and creative rock stars who can help you accelerate your career, stretch your skills, and bring new ideas to market.