Design/UX Designer

1 month ago

Victoria, Canada Abebooks Inc. Full time
p>We are looking for a UX Designer based in Victoria (preferred) or Vancouver to make AbeBooks a best-in-class destination for discovering used and collectible books.

As the UX Designer, you’ll be involved in all aspects of product development from brainstorming to diving into research and working with engineering and product management. You will utilize a full range of skills including wire framing, interaction design, prototyping, and visual design to bring these experiences to life. You'll champion best practices and processes needed to drive design-led, customer-obsessed solutions.


The ideal candidate will be able to visualize an experience, articulate use-cases, and drive the vision into design deliverables and artifacts.


Key job responsibilities
  1. Create the design of end-to-end product experiences and features.
  2. Conceptualize design through all phases of the product development lifecycle from discovery to launch.
  3. Drive creative process and collaboration with cross-functional partners to propose new ideas and strategies.
  4. Create design frameworks, diagrams, user flows, wireframes, and detailed visual mockups to communicate design strategies, while also diving deep with product and engineering to implement your vision.
  5. Support your design rationale using quantitative data and site metrics, customer feedback, and usability findings.
  6. Provide feedback and mentorship, with an emphasis on growing junior designers.
  7. Create and drive adoption of design guidelines, mechanisms, best practices, process, and tools.
  8. Present to design, tech, business, and leadership.

A day in the life:

As a UX Designer, you’ll work with a cross-functional team based in Victoria and Vancouver, inventing and iterating on end-to-end product experiences. The UX Design team is passionate about their craft and relentlessly advocates for customers of all abilities. p>

About the team:

AbeBooks, an Amazon company, is a global online marketplace for books and collectibles, with hundreds of millions of new, used, rare, and out-of-print books listed for sale by thousands of sellers.


Minimum Qualifications
  1. 5+ years of design experience
  2. 3+ years of delivering design solutions as a UX designer or interaction designer experience
  3. Have an available online portfolio
  4. Experience prototyping (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash or Flash Catalyst, or Axure)
  5. 2+ years of mass-market consumer web/mobile products experience
  6. Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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