Highlights
As a Product Designer on the Goodreads Design team, you'll work with engineers, data scientists, researchers, product managers, sales managers, customer experts, content creators, and designers to build products that help readers find books they"ll love and get more out of them, and enables authors, publishers and advertisers to connect with our audience of engaged readers. Our designers are generalists with specialties who translate customer insights and business needs into product experiences that delight, generate visual concepts that exceed expectations, and work with AI and developers to deliver those concepts with a high level of quality.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
Description
Want to change the lives of millions of readers by making it easy to discover books and get more out of reading?
As a Product Designer on the Goodreads Design team, you'll work with engineers, data scientists, researchers, product managers, sales managers, customer experts, content creators, and designers to build products that help readers find books they"ll love and get more out of them, and enables authors, publishers and advertisers to connect with our audience of engaged readers.
Goodreads is currently reimagining our products and brand. In this role, you will own, manage, and design for an AI-ready design system that accelerates design velocity, consistency, and quality across mobile apps and web. You will help the team invent and simplify as we grow our business and continually identify new opportunities to deliver value to all of our customers - readers, authors, and publisher/advertiser partners. You will be responsible for maturing our design system and tooling while up-leveling customer experiences across core product areas: Discovery, Reading, Tracking, and Community. You'll design across all touch points including web, iOS and Android apps, and emails.
Key job responsibilities
Own the design and enablement of our design system to deliver core reader experiences across web and mobile apps; driving adoption, evaluating system gaps, optimizing processes, utilizing AI and scaling to meet all product and surface needs.
Manage the design libraries and tooling while educating the team on best practices and providing resources.
Create customer-centered designs that incorporate customer feedback, user research, data, market trends and technical constraints.
Create flows, wireframes, design mockups, rapid prototypes to effectively conceptualize, prove out, and deliver on exceptional product experiences.
Partner with design, product, and engineering teams to define systems and AI enablement of design work.
Partner with User Research and independently drive evaluative research to develop understanding for the customer and validate design choices before and after development.
Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross-functionally, while being able to precisely articulate design rationale.
Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.
A day in the life
Product Design at Goodreads brings together the practices of human factors, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, UX research, and related disciplines into a single, customer-centric design role. Our designers are generalists with specialties who translate customer insights and business needs into product experiences that delight, generate visual concepts that exceed expectations, and work with AI and developers to deliver those concepts with a high level of quality.
Goodreads is the world"s largest site for readers and book recommendations, and we have over 100 million members. Our office is located in downtown San Francisco. Goodreads is an Amazon company, so you will have opportunities to partner with Kindle and Amazon teams to elevate the reading experience for millions of customers.
About Company
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
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