DESCRIPTION

Job summary

The Vivid team is looking for an exceptional Sr. UX Designer to join our growing video creative team. You will own the user experience and the creative output of our self-service video production tools. You will work at the intersection of technology and creativity, collaborating with designers, applied scientists, engineers and product managers throughout the design and development lifecycle. As a tastemaker and storyteller, you will advocate for design excellence – contributing to product vision, and collaborating with a team that defines and designs user interfaces, frameworks, and the interaction, visual, and motion design patterns for video creative tools.

Key job responsibilities

• Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, performance metrics, and usability findings
• Design video motion behaviors, systems and animations that delight advertisers and viewers
• Design beautiful, useful, and desirable user interfaces and experiences in a team environment
• Work creatively around technical implementation challenges to delight customers
• Design the UI architecture, interface, and interaction flow of applications and experiences
• Develop concept designs, wireframes, visual mockups, click-throughs, and prototypes to prove out and get alignment from partner teams and senior leadership
• Partner with motion designers and engineering teams to deliver motion design guidelines, primitives, documentation, motion component libraries, and complete motion frameworks
• Present and communicate effectively to a wide range of tech and non-tech audiences - spanning from design partners, engineering teams, and senior leadership
• Work with peer and partner interaction, visual, sound, motion, and voice designers in an open and highly collaborative environment
• Work with the product management team to develop a shared vision of a product/feature, close on requirements and deliver motion design to meet the product’s objectives
• Contribute to the broader design community to extend raise the bar on video creative experiences across Amazon

A day in the life

In a typical day, you would likely have several meetings with the design team, product managers, and/or engineering partners. You'd work closely with these people as you share your designs, respond to emails and messages, and develop/refine your interaction design specs.

About the team

The Vivid team in Edinburgh is the video creative technology arm of Amazon’s global video advertising business. We also power engaging video experiences world-wide across Social Advertising, Prime Video, Amazon Retail and Amazon Advertising. Vivid provide creative automation solutions that can operate at Amazon scale, enable video experimentation and build products that make the complex and expensive world of video accessible to everyone. Our mission is to empower all advertisers to create and augment video experiences for screens and formats. This could be anything from online video on mobile and desktop to video advertising commercial spots in TV and movie content.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with motion design including use of industry standard tools such as Adobe After Effects
• Fluency and experience in the design thinking process
• Experience with human-centered design with a portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating user-centered design solutions
• Ability to extract complex concepts and quickly turn around rigorous flows and mockups reflecting a range of options
• Ability to drive the design review cycle and close on design requirements independently
• Proficiency in presenting design work to user experience teams, product and engineering teams, and executives for review and feedback
• Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides
• Additional design skills in related fields, including graphic design and prototyping
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Previous experience in video advertising or media