Description

　　We are seeking a Principal Product Designer for ART19. As ART19’s strategic design leader, you will set the overall design vision and deliver an elegant and intuitive user experience for the tools that will be used by many of the top publishers, media companies, and agencies in the digital audio space. You will influence multiple partner teams and work with product and engineering leaders across our organization, driving mechanisms to connect those teams’ work into a single, holistic, end-to-end experience for our publisher customers.

　　We are looking for a passionate leader with an impressive ability to collaborate across functions and with a relentless focus on doing what’s right for customers. As a hands-on design leader, you will define frameworks and methodologies to scale design. You will both manage the design team at ART19 as well as individually execute on a variety of internal design projects, from discovery to workflow development, to wireframes and high-fidelity mocks, creating experiences that enable podcasters to work more quickly, accurately and efficiently. You will relentlessly simplify and distill complex business processes into intuitive and elegant experiences, working from high-level requirements to define design flows, interactions, and content strategies in collaboration with business leaders, engineers, product managers, and other UX designers.

　　The ideal candidate will be a visionary with a proven record of delivery, strong customer instincts, and outstanding design judgement. You must be a critical, inventive thinker with an excitement for understanding and using data, and the ability to communicate your ideas effectively. Being a big podcast fan is a plus.

　　Key job responsibilities

　　Define and scale ART19’s design process across multiple personas; drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong, talented, opinionated design team.

　　Raise the bar on design quality (never satisfied with status quo) with a team of designers, dividing time between our overall design strategy, negotiating priorities, focus, and overall clarity of solutions with the team while also executing individual project work.

　　Own and drive the mechanisms used by the design team to work with multiple partners teams in order to get alignment on customer problems, product vision, and accurate priorities.

　　Manage and mentor other designers while successfully executing on individual work designing elegant and cutting edge web and mobile products.

　　About the team

　　Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. ART19 (an Amazon Company) is a leading audio platform, providing cutting-edge tools for on-demand hosting, distribution, ad serving, and audience measurement. At the intersection of publishers and advertisers, the company powers hundreds of millions of podcast downloads every month for the industry’s largest shows. ART19 enables publishers to manage all content and ad operations in one place, offering best-in-class targeting capabilities, seamless integration with listening platforms, and a flexible infrastructure to continuously enhance revenue opportunities for its clients. ART19 equips advertisers with services to reach audiences through smart targeting and custom ad creative capabilities.

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

　　Culver City, CA, USA

　　Basic Qualifications

　　10+ years of design experience

　　Have an available online portfolio

　　3+ years experience leading design teams.

　　Proven history of design and development of a product design system and an emphasis on conceptual, visual, interaction design and strategic thinking.

　　Fluency in best practices for multi-platform information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques.

　　Expert skill level with standard design tools such as Photoshop, Sketch, Figma, InDesign, etc.

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　BA/BS degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or comparable field.

　　Experience in end-to-end concept to shipping several full product development cycles.

　　Experience creatively solving hard problems across complex products with simple yet transformational results.

　　Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and all levels of an organization, including executive management.

　　Strong bias for action including the ability to juggle multiple priorities and effectively deliver in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

　　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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

　　Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $131,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $244,000/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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.