We are looking for a UX Designer based in Victoria (preferred) or Vancouver to make AbeBooks a best-in-class destination for discovering used and collectible books.
As the UX Designer, you’ll be involved in all aspects of product development from brainstorming to diving into research and working with engineering and product management. You will utilize a full range of skills including: wire framing, interaction design, prototyping, and visual design to bring these experiences to life. To succeed in this role, you must be an innovative self-starter and a strategic big-picture thinker. You'll champion best practices and processes needed to drive design-led, customer-obsessed solutions.
The ideal candidate will be able to visualize an experience, articulate use-cases and drive the vision into design deliverables and artifacts.
Key Job Responsibilities
- Create the design of end-to-end product experiences and features.
- Conceptualize design through all phases of the product development lifecycle from discovery to launch.
- Drive creative process and collaboration with cross-functional partners to propose new ideas and strategies.
- Through research, identify opportunities and create experiences to solve our most challenging customer problems.
- Create design frameworks, diagrams, user flows, wireframes, and detailed visual mockups to communicate design strategies, while also diving deep with product and engineering to implement your vision.
- Support your design rationale using quantitative data and site metrics, customer feedback, and usability findings.
- Provide feedback and mentorship, with an emphasis on growing junior designers.
- Create and drive adoption of design guidelines, mechanisms, best practices, process, and tools.
- Present to design, tech, business, and leadership.
A day in the life
As a UX Designer, you’ll work with a cross-functional team based in Victoria and Vancouver, inventing and iterating on end-to-end product experiences. You will have a leader who clears a path for you, and a team of peers to rely on for dialog and support. The UX Design team is passionate about their craft and relentlessly advocates for customers of all abilities. The team is looking for someone who can share our passion for books and create experiences for customers of all abilities.
About the team
AbeBooks, an Amazon company, is a global online marketplace for books and collectibles, with hundreds of millions of new, used, rare, and out-of-print books listed for sale by thousands of sellers.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of mass-market consumer web/mobile products experience.
- Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs.
The base salary for this position ranges from $74,300/year up to $124,000/year. Salary is based on a number of factors 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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Posted: March 25, 2024 (Updated 14 days ago)
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