Senior UX Design Manager, Amazon Customer Service

Amazon.com Inc

Austin, TX

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Best Practices, Call Centers, Coaching, Customer Experience, Customer Service Management, Customer Support/Service, Establish Priorities, Leadership, Mentoring, Process Development, Project/Program Management, Prototyping, Research Laboratory, Talent Management, Team Player, User Experience Design (UXD), User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Writing Skills
LOCATION
Austin, TX
POSTED
15 days ago

We"re Amazon"s Customer Service Team, and our mission is to make customer service interactions so good they become the primary reason customers

choose Amazon. When our customers have problems, we make solutions effortless, and when they need additional help, we ensure the best possible human support through industry-leading tools. We innovate relentlessly, spending time in contact centers, with customers in the field, in the UX research lab, and iterating on UX prototypes. Our work greatly impacts our customers" experience and is critical for Amazon.

This role is for a hands-on UX design leader who enables a team of talented UX designers to deliver bar-raising experiences for customers around the world. In this role, you will drive UX strategy across multiple user experiences, creating roadmaps and determining priorities for your team. You will partner closely with product and tech leaders, using quantitative and qualitative evidence to inform and guide UX direction. The right candidate will coach their team from a deep understanding of UX best practices, and embody a nimble, creative, and pragmatic approach that pushes the boundaries of agile UX. Your organizational savvy will position the team to have optimal impact and deliver strong, measurable results. You sincerely believe that design is more than surface level; it"s also about how it feels and functions.

Key job responsibilities

  • A role model, mentor, and motivator.
  • Leads with deep empathy for our customers, our customer service associates, and team members.
  • Ensures creative quality through the methods and mechanisms set in motion.
  • Invested in growing people, developing talent, creating an inclusive and inspiring environment, and fostering collaboration.
  • Experience presenting design work to partners and executive leadership for review, feedback, and sign-off. Coaches others to do the same.
  • Prioritizes effectively, uses data to inform decisions, weighs the impact and trade-offs of decisions, and seeks input where needed to drive alignment.
  • Works closely with product and business partners to develop a shared vision and leads a process to define and design experiences that deliver on those shared objectives.
  • Develops processes that drive quality and efficiency to help designers accomplish more than they could otherwise.

A day in the life

The role involves close partnership with senior product managers, tech leaders, and partner teams to deliver high-impact design work at a global scale. The design leader embodies and instills in their team customer-centric judgment throughout all parts of the design process, enables their team to validate their design strategies, and maintains the highest design standards, while relentlessly advocating for high-quality customer experiences.

About the team

The Customer Service UX team comprises a diverse group of UX designers, researchers, writers, and program managers with a shared mission to make every experience we design intuitive, effortless, seamless, and empathetic. We trust each other, collaborate regularly, and work together to ensure we all raise the bar on UX quality. We work hard; however, we also strive to support each other, remain genuine, and create a positive culture that balances work and personal life.

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles