UX Researcher , UX Reseacher, Amazon Customer Service

Amazon.com Inc

Seattle, WA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Automation, Best Practices, Call Centers, Continuous Improvement, Conversation Engine, Customer Experience, Customer Relations, Customer Support/Service, Customer/Client Research, Establish Priorities, Leadership, Multitasking, Needs Assessment, Problem Solving Skills, Product Design, Product Development, Research Laboratory, Research Skills, Technical Leadership, Technical Research, Usability Testing, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Voice Chat
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
POSTED
7 days ago

Have you ever called customer service and got stuck waiting on hold? Or maybe you've had to hang up and call again because you pressed "2" instead of "3"? Do you want improve these frustrating user experiences that millions of Amazon customers face, and enable them to resolve their issues easily and effectively?

At Amazon we strive to be Earth"s most customer centric company. The Amazon Customer Experience Products (CXP) UX team is key to that mission, defining the UX both for customers and the customer service associates who help them. When our customers have problems, we make solutions self-evident, and when they need additional help, we ensure the best possible automated or human support. We learn about our users by spending time in call centers, talking with customers the field, conducting remote research, and learning from users in our dedicated CS UX research lab.

The CXP UX team is looking for an experienced and motivated Sr UX Researcher to lead user research for the Self-Service and Automation (SSA) space. This role will be responsible for designing and conducting user research on next generation experiences for customer service (CS), such as the automated voice bot and chat bot. The team is looking for an experienced UX Researcher with a deep understanding of design research methods and how to apply them during the product development cycle.

The candidate should have demonstrated experience owning a research roadmap based on organizational needs, and designing, running and communicating user research to multiple types of organizational stakeholders and levels of leadership. The candidate should enjoy working closely with designers, other researchers, design technologists, product managers, and technology teams to solve highly ambiguous and complex problems. This role includes the intellectual challenge of simplifying technical problems in elegantly simple ways that can make customer interactions effortless and intuitive.

Key job responsibilities

  • Partner closely with design and product to understand blockers, prioritize multiple stakeholders needs, and build a research roadmap
  • Communicate and refresh research on regular basis to ensure relevancy and durability of insights.
  • Identify best methods based on research questions, timeline, and resourcing.
  • Build and continuously improve a robust and thoughtful approach to gather customer insights, and collaborate with other research teams in Amazon to align on best practice.
  • Define and execute (and, as necessary, invent) research methods appropriate to the questions at hand, including but not limited to interviews, observations, surveys, usability testing, and heuristic evaluations.
  • Synthesize primary and secondary data types and perform quick and thorough analyses leading to focused, insightful, and actionable findings.

A day in the life

In this role you will be responsible for driving and implementing research strategies. You will interact daily with team members to understand and guide research needs, both defined and undefined. You will also be required to work with minimal direction and be capable of working quickly while delivering high-quality outputs. You will work on overlapping projects, which require the ability to multi-task and juggle competing priorities. The right candidate will have a deep understanding of user research methods and best practices and a flexible, creative, and pragmatic approach.

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