Principal UX Designer - AI Platform

Job description

DESCRIPTION

What will artificial intelligence and data science look like in 10 years? How do we design tools and rich user interfaces to empower millions of humans working with code and data: scientists, engineers, developers, analysts, students, and data scientists? How would you design a dashboard for managing complex machine learning experiments? How will people collaborate in the creation and sharing of narratives based on code, data, and AI? How do we build tools that encourage practitioners and organizations towards the ethical usage of AI? How can we design user experiences that empower humans as they work alongside AI-based systems? Are you up for a challenge to develop a comprehensive and ambitious design strategy for the future of AI?

The Amazon SageMaker team is on a mission to make data science and machine learning understandable, accessible, affordable, and scalable. Amazon SageMaker provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly. As a fully-managed cloud service, it covers the entire data science workflow from data preparation and exploratory data analysis to model building and inference. The foundation of the SageMaker user experience is the industry standard, open-source Jupyter Notebook.

We are looking for passionate and innovative design leaders who will guide our design efforts in this emerging and exciting field.

You are an experienced design leader, ready to champion human centered design to simplify complicated and painful customer tasks and activities in data science and machine learning. You feel at home working in diverse, cross-functional teams that include product managers, scientists, and developers.

As a design leader, you have deep knowledge and practical experience in all aspects of UX design for software applications, from user research and design concept creation to visual and interaction design and usability testing. You will work collaboratively with leaders inside AWS, the open-source community (Project Jupyter, etc.), and AWS customers to deliver products that are intuitive, understandable, and a joy to use.

Key Responsibilities
· Lead, mentor, and inspire a growing team of UX designers and researchers.
· Design products that delight a wide range of users working with code, data, and machine learning models on the AWS AI platform: data scientists, data engineers, machine learning researchers, analysts, and students.
· Develop a comprehensive design vision, approach, and strategy for the AI platform, looking past the current hype and limitations of AI to the long-term human and business value for AWS customers.
· Create design principles for the ethical and responsible usage of AI, and work to incorporate them into a design system and products.
· Drive design projects through all phases, from user research and exploratory mockups to design reviews, delivery, and usability testing.
· Collaborate and communicate effectively within cross-functional teams that span design, product, engineering, and management.
· Design the UX, visual style, user interface, information architecture, and interaction flow of web applications for users working with code, data, and machine learning models.
· Develop and maintain a detailed design system that spans multiple products, and communicate those to developers and product managers.
· Collaborate on design projects with open source projects in the data and machine learning space, including Project Jupyter.
· Develop and contribute deep knowledge of the latest user research practices, HCI research, design guidelines, and design heuristics.
· Solicit and accept feedback, weigh inputs and priorities, and take part in constructive dialogue to resolve healthy debates.
· Conduct design reviews with senior leadership showing a strong ability to communicate design ideas and the customer and business impact of designs.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· BA/BS degree in graphic design, HCI, interaction design, or related field. May be substituted with significant industry experience and accomplishments.
· 10+ years of experience in product, web, and mobile UX design.
· Portfolio of shipped work demonstrating impactful principal design work and leadership, with a deep understanding of human-centered design principles.
· Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
· Ability to organize, plan, and stay ahead of the work.
· Work must consistently demonstrate a strong aesthetic judgement and training, in addition to exemplary UX skills.
· Experience designing UX across different types of devices and screen sizes
· Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, Axure, Invision, Flinto.
· Proven ability to both deliver a bold vision and iterate quickly on concepts to arrive at an amazing customer experience.
· Experience in a wide range of qualitative and quantitative user research methodologies.
· Excellent writing skills.