Sr. UX Designer (UXD III), AI Platforms

Are you intrigued by or passionate about Machine Learning (ML) and ready for your next UX challenge? Do you wonder what artificial intelligence and data science will look like in 10 years?

The Amazon SageMaker team is looking for passionate and innovative design leaders who will guide our design efforts in this emerging and exciting field.

About you

You are an experienced design leader, ready to champion human centered design to simplify complicated and painful customer tasks and activities in data science and machine learning.

You feel at home working in a diverse, multi-disciplinary design team that collaborates closely with scientists, product managers and engineers.

You have deep knowledge and practical experience in all aspects of UX design for software applications, from user research and idea generation to interaction design and functional prototyping.

You focus on details and obsess over ways to improve the customer’s experience. You have big ideas and aren’t afraid to lead with design.

You’re a strong design storyteller and are comfortable presenting your ideas to stakeholders.

You might have concerns about the job requirements and the AL & ML problem space, but still feel like you’d be a good fit.

Regardless of any practical experience with AI, we’re looking for talented, motivated, senior designers to bring their unique talents and leadership skills to our team and we’re flexible in order to find the right candidate.

Key job responsibilities

We need a creative and customer-obsessed Sr. UX Designer to help drive key initiatives across the SageMaker family of products.

Your work will help define, simplify, and improve the tools that empower millions of people working on our platform.

You’ll be responsible for leading design activity and driving deliverables like concept sketches, user scenarios & customer journeys, workflow diagrams, storyboards, wireframes, user interface designs, and prototypes.

You’re an expert at using Creative Suite and Figma, and are comfortable creating prototypes of varying degrees of fidelity.

A day in the life

• Design products that delight a wide range of personas working with code, data, and machine learning models.
• Help a growing UX team develop a comprehensive design vision, approach, and strategy.
• Lead design projects through all phases, from user research and exploratory prototypes to design reviews, delivery, and usability testing.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively within cross-functional teams that span design, product, engineering, and management.
• Conduct and participate in design reviews with a range of stakeholders across the organization.
• Help innovate on the future vision of what an AI / ML platform looks like and how it should function.

About the team

The SageMaker Studio is focused on the most significant technologies shaping our collective future. The platform is responsible for creating revolutionary approaches to the systems that drive the development and deployment of AI and machine learning models on a global scale.

This team solves fundamentally human problems, making the creation of transformational and highly disruptive technologies more meaningful and usable for the data science community and beyond.

To do this, we are building a new kind of design practice that brings together a diverse group of multi-disciplinary design thinkers and doers to tackle complex product design challenges in the machine learning domain.

Our goal is extend AWS’s domain leadership in AI / ML and drive global recognition for product design excellence by serving critical customer needs.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 5 years experience as a UX designer.
• College degree (BA, BS, etc).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years experience as a UX designer.
• High level of Figma proficiency.
• Expert at utilizing and / or creating design systems.
• Experience with AI / ML.
• Comfortable with running user interviews and usability studies as well as creating reports for them.
• Master's degree.
30+ days ago