Job Opening at Amazon Go: Senior Store Prototyping Designer

Amazon Go is looking for a Senior Store Prototyping Designer. 

Role:

As a Store Prototyping Designer for Amazon Go, you will:

• Devise brilliant methods of testing concepts through creative prototyping techniques.
• As part of this team, you will develop mockups and prototypes to communicate and test design concepts, interactions, and construction methods. 
• Work in close collaboration with industrial designers, store experience designers, product managers, and cross-functional technology partners. 
• Craft interactive physical design solutions that incorporate all the design details that matter most to Amazon Go customers, store associates, and technologists and produce them at the right fidelity.
• Build on new ideas, technologies, and ingenious ways for customers to interact with your prototypes. 
• You’ll be hands-on at every step of the prototyping process, shepherding ideas from the design concept phase through mockups, piloting, production, delivery, and ongoing iteration.

Responsibilities:

• Take designs from concepts to technical modeling in the appropriate software, through to completed prototypes.
• Ensure that customer and store associate needs, along with design, construction, and technology requirements, are accounted for in your designs.
• Work with design, research, and testing teams to weave new insights from prototypes into final, production-ready designs.
• Lead and collaborate with prototype suppliers to achieve high standards for design integrity, engineering quality, and efficiency.
• Participate in cross-functional strategy, timing, and process decisions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Industrial Design, Technical Design, or a related advanced production design field with 5+ years of working experience.
• Design, technical knowledge, and working experience related to all phases of the development process including ideation, prototyping, testing, manufacturing, and assembly.
• High level of skill producing, interpreting, and working with technical drawings and operating industry-standard drafting and design tools.
• Experience working directly with suppliers in the development and prototyping of store designs or related physical customer experiential environments, as well as leading prototyping and fabrication vendors. Highly creative, self-motivated, and enjoy independently running multiple parallel-path projects.

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