UX Design Manager, AWS Fintech

Description

Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas can have an impact on how AWS Leaders make business decisions. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up.

Welcome to AWS Fintech, where cross-functional teams work as one cohesive unit to empower finance and other AWS customers with over 30 products.

As we continue to grow, we are looking for a talented, passionate, and hands-on UX Design Manager to play a vital role in shaping the end-to-end experiences, insist on the highest quality of interaction design, and impact multiple experiences by harmonizing common patterns of use.

In this role, you will help us define a north star vision for finance tools and refine recommendations for common UI patterns working closely with AWS Design System teams.

In crafting these experiences, you will work cross-functionally with Product Managers, Researchers, Engineers, Program Managers and many others across the organization.

You will lead UX design from research and discovery to high fidelity designs and release. You will also be working closely with Product Management to help craft the vision and set the product direction.

To be successful, you must be a critical, inventive, and strategic thinker with clear design chops and an ability to communicate your ideas effectively to peers, stakeholders and executives.

Finance and enterprise design experience is a plus!

Key job responsibilities

• Stay ahead of developments in the Fintech and UX design space, and use this deep expertise as an input to help craft the north star strategy for products with a path to incremental transition from current state.
• Partner with colleagues both within and outside the AWS Fintech org to deliver on shareable common UI services that can be used across products.
• Insist on highest standards of interface designs and defend in reviews both internally and externally with stakeholders in product / engineering leadership.
• Use research practices in how teams frame problems to be solved, experiment with multiple concepts through ideation workshops, and evaluate how the product is meeting customer goals (pre / post release) with engagement analytics.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of designers; develop and maintain personal and team momentum
• Earn trust across multiple internal Amazon teams (design, engineering, product) to achieve your goals.
• Help up-level the team with UX skill trainings, sharing best practices on scaling impact, and hosting team events to build an inclusive culture.
• Present design work to multiple cross-functional teams, managers, and senior leadership for review and feedback

A day in the life

You will be managing a team and working closely with leaders and teams across product, engineering, and design. You will also build key partnerships with customers both from the AWS finance org and also from other AWS teams.

About the team

You will be a part of a close-knit, supportive, inclusive, and diverse team of designers, technologists, and product managers.

At AWS Fintech we build and operate systems that provide management and financial reporting for AWS. Our multi-year vision is to build a comprehensive, single source of truth finance data platform for AWS that automates repetitive data sourcing, data validation, and reporting processes to free finance users to spend more time performing complex analyses, supporting business decisions, and telling the story.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Jersey City, NJ, USA Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of design experience
• 3+ years of leading design teams experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working cross-team and synthesize feedback and input from product management, engineering, testing, and marketing

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $121,300 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $225,500 / year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location 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.

For more information, please visit https : / / www.aboutamazon.com / workplace / employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled.

Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.