Amazon
Principal UX Designer , Fauna
$180K–$244K
New York, NY · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jun 23, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of professional experience in UX design, interaction design, or experience design.
About the job
Defines the interaction experience, personality, and design principles for Fauna’s home robots, guiding concepts from research through production.
What you'll do
- Set the robot’s experience vision and interaction design principles, and create artifacts that make concepts tangible and evaluable.
- Partner with science and engineering, direct user research, and guide design work from concept through production.
- Mentor designers and strengthen the team’s design practice and interaction quality.
What they ask for
- Portfolio demonstrating work on character-driven, embodied, conversational, or physically interactive systems.
- Experience defining experience strategy and interaction frameworks for novel product categories.
- Demonstrated ability to work across disciplines and influence technical direction through design.
- Experience communicating design vision through narrative artifacts such as storyboards, journey maps, concept videos, or behavioral prototypes.
Nice to have
- Experience designing for physically embodied systems, such as robots, smart home devices, or physical computing.
- Background in conversational or voice-first interaction design, character design, animation direction, AI/ML-powered systems, or user research in novel interaction domains.
Pay
180,400.00 - 244,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
AI focus
Designs robot behavior and interactions, including conversational and personality-driven experiences; familiarity with AI/ML-powered systems and non-deterministic behavior is preferred.
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