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Posted date: Jul 15, 2025
Location: Seattle, WA
Estimated salary: $145,000
Range: $106,000 - $184,000
Description
Amazon’s Devices & Services Design team has launched revolutionary products like Echo, Fire TV and more. Are you interested in joining the team to lead Amazon’s next innovation?Our design studio is looking for an exceptional UX Motion Designer to join our growing Alexa design team. You will concept and craft unique and compelling motion design for Alexa experiences, collaborating with designers, researchers, 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 Alexa multimodal experiences. This role is based in Seattle, WA.
The ideal candidate for this role will have a keen eye for elegant, modern design, and UI patterns. You think holistically, and craft the "why" of all that we ship – advocating for your design solutions by putting them in context of business and customer goals. You are proficient in After Effects and other software for creating user interface animations and rapid mockups, motion studies and prototypes. You are at ease both visualizing an experience in the abstract and then driving that vision into concise motion design deliverables and hands-on building with engineering teams. You can drive the creative review cycle, craft delightful design solutions, and elevate the motion experience of millions of Alexa customers around the world.
Key Responsibilities:
- Craft motion UX behaviors, systems and animations that orient, guide and add delight for customers
- Produce motion studies for user flows, leadership presentations with an ability to quickly iterate on multiple design solutions
- Work with peer and partner interaction, visual and voice designers in an open and collaborative environment
- Contribute to the definition and communication of motion design guidelines, development best practices and standards
- Adapt core motion primitives to optimize experiences for both existing and emerging customer modalities
- 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
- Partner with software engineers to leverage the scale offered by our platform without compromising on core experiential principles and customer intent
- Present work to multiple partner teams and design leadership for review and feedback
- Contribute to the broader design community to extend motion experiences across the array of offerings
- Inspire other designers in the Devices & Services Design studio
Qualifications
- Have an available online portfolio- 3+ years professional experience as a motion designer or similar design role
- 1+ years professional experience as a UX motion designer
- Expertise in both motion and visual design
- Bachelor's degree in Animation, Motion, Interaction or Graphic Design or equivalent design-related field
- Experience in a variety of design tools such as Adobe After Effects, Figma and other animation prototyping tools
Extended 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
- Experience with Agile processes and partnering with technical product management
- Experience designing for multiple platforms such as mobile, multimodal, TV, web and virtual reality
- Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups, motion studies and style guides
- Experience with design tools such as Lottie, Rive and prototyping tools
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to navigate ambiguity to drive the design cycle and multitask in an fast-paced environment
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, 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 $106,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $184,000/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.
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