UX Design Manager, Kindle ID-15320

May 16, 2025

Description

The Books Design Studio seeks a passionate and people obsessed leader to join our Kindle Reader and Subscriptions team. Our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. In pursuit of this, our 50+ person global Design Studio provides the user research, UX, and brand design for Kindle E-readers, Kindle apps for phones & tablets, Author & Publisher tools, and book shopping experiences used by millions of readers and thousands of authors around the world.

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About The Team

We are a diverse, collaborative group with a passion for crafting exceptional experiences to help customers enjoy reading more. We hope you'll join us.

As the Books Studio is largely based in Seattle, we fully support relocation to Seattle, should that be desired.

This role would be managing a team of approximately 5 direct reports, working to motivate readers and support customers in finding their next great read.

Basic Qualifications

6+ years of design experience
3+ years of leading design teams experience
Experience managing teams
Experience leading design teams in problem definition, artifact rendering, cross-functional collaboration and delivery, and user validation and measurement

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working cross-team and synthesize feedback and input from product management, engineering, testing, and marketing
Experience with agile/scrum

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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