As an agile team, they ensure the product experience renders seamlessly and elegantly to efficiently onboard new members, and to assist highly engaged members in discovering great stories.
With a focus on reducing key friction points to drive business goals and test new concepts for near-term consideration, the teams objective is to evolve the end-to-end Audible experience into a signature experience.
About You:
Youre a hacker and harvester of new technologies and mobile design trends at heart, able to jump into the fray and drive a compelling experience from a napkin sketch to a well-articulated design POV.
Youre a pixel perfectionist confident in your ability to work alongside multi-disciplinary designers, product managers, researchers, and engineering partners exploring the limits of audio content discovery and consumption experiences.
Youre the voice of the customer, passionately committed to aligning customer needs with business goals, and in your sprint grooming session you story point like a boss.
Responsibilities:
Design Thinking Contribute to the overall end-to-end user experience for desktop and mobile from the initial concept and validation, down to specifics of a micro-interaction for a feature.
Develop detailed customer journeys, user flows, wireframes, mockups, and other product deliverables to effectively translate product requirements into a tangible interaction model.
Support product planning and ideation by participating in collaborative brainstorming and high-level prototyping sessions.
Work with cross-functional teams (product managers, engineering, customer service, marketing, merchandising, QA, etc.) to facilitate the production of complex user flows and commerce driven projects.
Work with our in-house User Research department to validate your assumptions, test new features, and incorporate user feedback into design iterations
Communicating
Collaborate with your manager to synthesize and incorporate feedback with a user-centered focus.
Work seamlessly with Visual Design peer(s) to specify and deliver signature elements within the aesthetic and motion design, and maintain standards and brand integrity as a global design system.
During the implementation phase respond to day-to-day questions from your UX manager, developers, and product managers.
Also work side-by-side with engineering and QA to identify, document, and verify bug fixes in a timely manner.
Stay current with the latest design and technology trends across mobile platforms and responsive web frameworks, and adopt modern techniques as appropriate.
Share knowledge with other teams to drive awareness.
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of experience as a user experience designer, product designer, interaction designer, UI designer with a proven track record of shipping consumer products.
3+ years of experience in an Agile/SCRUM/Lean-UX environment with rapid validation and highly iterative cycles.
Familiarity with platform standards, guidelines and best practices for desktop, mobile web, iOS, Android, Windows; a general understanding of the capabilities, limitations, and tradeoffs required.
Proven ability to understand business goals, product roadmaps and KPIs, and apply appropriate data and customer insights to translate into clear UX priorities for yourself.
Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills including the ability to communicate effectively in groups and defend your design decisions with sound rationale.
Developed user research studies using various methodologies including lab testing and multi-variant A/B tests.
Preferred Qualifications
Localization experience with an international product (app or website) is a plus.
Understanding of SEO and accessibility standards is a plus.
Benefits:
We have a comprehensive benefits package but here are some of the fun perks:
Free catered lunch daily, breakfast on Mondays, all the snacks you can eat and Happy Hour on a Friday
Free onsite gym and 25% fitness reimbursement
Ruthless ping-pong tournaments and seasonal sports clubs - volleyball, basketball, soccer, etc.
Endless company sponsored events
Transit reimbursement, paid parking and shuttle service
Tuition assistance
Annual discount
Access to Web Services and much more...
Audible is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer-Minority/ Female/ Disability/ Ve
