UX Designer II, SPEAR - Remote Eligible

User Design (UX) Designer

The Special Programs, Evaluations, Assessments & Response (SPEAR) team is seeking an experienced User Design (UX) Designer to join our Security Engineering team. You'll be instrumental in developing sophisticated user interfaces for our security assessment platforms and automated evaluation systems that protect Amazon's global infrastructure. This position offers a unique blend of front end development and user design, requiring collaboration with security professionals across Amazon's diverse facilities. This role is remotely based and requires approximately 10% travel.

Key job responsibilities:

• Design user experiences, from research and strategy to prototyping and testing.
• Conduct in-depth user research through methods like interviews, usability testing, and analytics to deeply understand user needs and pain points.
• Create detailed user journeys, information architecture, wireframes, and high-fidelity interactive prototypes.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and stakeholders, to ensure designs meet business requirements and technical feasibility.
• Champion a user-centered design approach throughout the organization and advocate for the needs of users.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest UX trends, best practices, and design tools, and apply innovative solutions to complex design problems.
• Continuously evaluate and improve the overall UX of products and services through ongoing user feedback and performance analysis.
• Effectively communicate design decisions and rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences.

About the team:

The Special Projects, Evaluations, Assessments, and Response (SPEAR) team consists of dedicated security professionals with subject matter expertise in their respective fields. SPEAR specializes in identifying and providing recommendations for the challenging, unique, and out of the box security issues. SPEAR conducts deep dives of implemented physical, technical, and wireless security measures to ensure AWS' customers' information is safe and secure. SPEAR prides itself on delivering quality services to its stakeholders in a timely fashion to achieve a higher standard of security. Here at SPEAR Operational Support and Service (OS2) Security Engineering team, we build and manage a highly scalable, distributed systems and focus on the hard problems so stakeholders can focus on their business.