User Experience Designer

User Experience Designer - Global Payment Systems

At Amazon, we strive to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of our DNA. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them an environment in which they can relentlessly improve the experience for customers. We do this every day by solving complex technical and business problems with ingenuity and simplicity. We're making history and the good news is that we've only just begun User Experience Designer - Global Payment Systems RESPONSIBILITIES Are you an experienced User Experience Designer who wants to be a part of driving the global transformation of a major industry? As one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world, Amazon has built a world-class payment platform which processes billions of transactions worldwide via a number of payment mechanisms. These include credit cards, online and offline direct debit from bank accounts, and various forms of open and closed loop stored value. You will join a rapidly-growing team at an early stage in its development, and have the opportunity to create the customer experience for a portfolio of new payments products that solve real world problems for our customers (buyers, sellers and developers). As a member of the Global Payment Services marketing team, the Senior UX Designer, Payments Marketing will be a key contributor in building a world-class marketing and design team from the ground up. You will have responsibility for developing best-in-class consumer experiences (user interface designs, interaction models, prototypes, etc.) in a fast-paced, agile environment. You will work closely with engineering, product management, and team leaders to successfully take ideas from initial concepts to launch. You must be responsive, flexible, and willing to take a stand on behalf of the customer to produce simple, elegant, compelling experiences. Additional responsibilities Work closely with cross-functional teams to help define feature requirements via empirical online data, usability findings, market research, and proven user-centered design principles Collaborate with other designers to help architect a near and long-term design vision for our worldwide payments businesses Develop process flows, wireframes, and mockups to effectively conceptualize and communicate high-level design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors Define patterns and drive consistency, but always seek to innovate on behalf of and in the interests of the business and our customers At least 5 years of professional experience as an interactive designer / user experience designer; expertise in both information architecture and visual design Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills; the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization A strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience and relevant, user-centered design solutions Experience with designing end-user, web-based applications The ability to provide detailed specifications and prototypes for our Developers and Engineers to work from Fluent with the standard tools of the design trade, e.g. Photoshop, Fireworks, Visio, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, etc. Familiarity with HTML and CSS A strong awareness of common usability methods and principles The ability to manage ambiguity, work autonomously, and multi-task in an agile environment Experience designing for mobile and tablet environments, either mobile applications or mobile-optimized websites The ability to prototype in HTML/CSS, JavaScript Proficiency with web standards and accessibility compliance A general understanding of how Design impacts Development (and vice versa), along with a knack for constructing dynamic, interactive designs that are technically feasible/prudent The ability to quickly turn around rigorous wireframes and mockups in an iterative environment An innate capacity for creating simple, fun, highly usable designs and layouts PaymentsJobs2011 PaymentsJobs2011UX Apply Now Report It