Principal Game Designer, RBKS AI

Amazon.com Inc

Hawthorne, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Games, Best Practices, Cross-Functional, Customer Experience, Design Flows, Documentation, Ecosystems, Entrepreneurship, Game Design, Home Security, Interaction Flow Diagram, Marketing, Mentoring, Onboarding, Product Engineering, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, Rapid Prototyping, Team Player
LOCATION
Hawthorne, CA
POSTED
9 days ago

As a Principal Game Designer at RBKS AI (Ring, Blink, Key, Sidewalk), you will own the design vision for a new, innovative experience that brings AI-powered interactivity and engagement to Ring customers. Working alongside a focused team of product managers, engineers, and scientists, you will conceive and ship entirely new ways for customers to interact with their home security products - making the Ring app and devices easier, smarter, and more delightful to use every day.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial, inventive designer who thrives at the intersection of game design and AI-driven product experiences. You bring deep craft, high judgment, and the ability to inspire a cross-functional team around a bold creative vision. The ideal candidate is energized by ambiguity, passionate about designing for mass-market audiences, and excited to apply game design thinking to real-world home security and safety contexts.

Key job responsibilities

  • Lead the definition, design, and delivery of innovative AI-powered interactive experiences within the Ring app and connected device ecosystem
  • Design core engagement loops, onboarding journeys, and habit-forming interaction patterns that make Ring products more intuitive and rewarding for everyday customers
  • Collaborate with applied science and engineering teams to integrate player-facing AI features - personalization, adaptive content, and intelligent context-aware interactions - into the product experience
  • Lead design sprints, prototype reviews, and rapid iteration cycles; use qualitative research and quantitative signals to validate and continuously refine experiences
  • Develop high-quality design documentation - concept papers, systems designs, interaction flows, and feature specs - that serve as the source of truth for cross-functional teams
  • Create buy-in for the design vision both internally and with key partner organizations; champion the customer perspective across product, engineering, marketing, and operations
  • Anticipate bottlenecks, manage trade-offs between customer experience and technical constraints, and keep complex initiatives on track
  • Proactively identify and resolve strategic or creative blockers that may impair the team"s ability to meet its vision, schedule, or quality goals
  • Mentor and elevate design craft across the team; help establish best practices for AI-driven interactive design at Amazon

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles