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Product Designer roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship under the specialty occupation category, requiring at least a bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field. Employers file the Labor Condition Application before your petition, certifying the prevailing wage for your specific location and experience level.
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We are looking for a UX Designer to help us build the future of the Amazon Lists experience. The right candidate is at ease assisting in research, the creation of scenarios, sketches, story boards, wire-frames, and prototypes. You will assist the team in visualizing an experience in the abstract, gather relevant research data, break down complex use-cases, and ultimately help drive the vision into solid design deliverables. You think first from the customer’s perspective, set relentlessly high standards for yourself and deliver best-in-class design work. You thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and embrace the idea that failure is a critical part of innovation. You balance your passion for inspired, compelling, elegant yet simple designs with a highly analytical nature, immaculately precise execution, and a relentless drive to learn, design, build and deliver.
Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, engineering, and research teams from early concept through launch, ensuring bar-raising quality to market.
- Create and communicate the vision for user experiences across a range of surfaces and interaction models, including mobile, voice, and conversational patterns.
- Use customer research, competitive analysis, behavioral signals, and quantitative data to identify opportunities, validate design direction, and continuously refine assumptions.
- Build scalable pattern libraries, templates, and component specs that support consistency and integrate with broader design systems.
- Think systemically, designing within and contributing to frameworks that create coherent experiences, while knowing when to create unique, product-defining moments.
- Tell compelling stories through the user experience and in reviews, driving alignment with partners and leadership through clear verbal and written communication.
- Inspire and elevate the craft of the UX team through collaboration, feedback, and a commitment to continuous learning.
A day in the life
As a designer on the Lists team, you will be a hands-on designer unafraid to take on the toughest challenges, scales their impact with proactive collaboration with other designers, and elevates the design quality of the entire team. You will develop strong relationships with fellow designers and partner closely with product, engineering, and business counterparts throughout the organization to launch bar-raising experiences for customers around the world. You have a passion for solving our customers' problems, always putting their needs first.
About the team
You'll join the Shopping Design team at Amazon—a group of designers, technologists, program and product managers who design the global Amazon shopping experience for customers. We own the end-to-end shopping experience, and design the features that make it easy for customers to discover, evaluate, and transact on Amazon. We enable 300+ shopping designers outside of our organization and thousands of tech resources with design patterns, systems, tools, customer insights, and best practices to design a cohesive and delightful shopping CX. Our mission is to design magical shopping experiences that customers use daily and love.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or similar
- Knowledge of design process
- Experience in visual design demonstrated through design concepts, case studies, documentation, mockups and style guides
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in a highly agile environment
- Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
- Knowledge of mobile and web design patterns and accessibility standards
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, WA, Seattle
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: 81,000.00 - 141,700.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a UX Designer to help us build the future of the Amazon Lists experience. The right candidate is at ease assisting in research, the creation of scenarios, sketches, story boards, wire-frames, and prototypes. You will assist the team in visualizing an experience in the abstract, gather relevant research data, break down complex use-cases, and ultimately help drive the vision into solid design deliverables. You think first from the customer’s perspective, set relentlessly high standards for yourself and deliver best-in-class design work. You thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and embrace the idea that failure is a critical part of innovation. You balance your passion for inspired, compelling, elegant yet simple designs with a highly analytical nature, immaculately precise execution, and a relentless drive to learn, design, build and deliver.
Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, engineering, and research teams from early concept through launch, ensuring bar-raising quality to market.
- Create and communicate the vision for user experiences across a range of surfaces and interaction models, including mobile, voice, and conversational patterns.
- Use customer research, competitive analysis, behavioral signals, and quantitative data to identify opportunities, validate design direction, and continuously refine assumptions.
- Build scalable pattern libraries, templates, and component specs that support consistency and integrate with broader design systems.
- Think systemically, designing within and contributing to frameworks that create coherent experiences, while knowing when to create unique, product-defining moments.
- Tell compelling stories through the user experience and in reviews, driving alignment with partners and leadership through clear verbal and written communication.
- Inspire and elevate the craft of the UX team through collaboration, feedback, and a commitment to continuous learning.
A day in the life
As a designer on the Lists team, you will be a hands-on designer unafraid to take on the toughest challenges, scales their impact with proactive collaboration with other designers, and elevates the design quality of the entire team. You will develop strong relationships with fellow designers and partner closely with product, engineering, and business counterparts throughout the organization to launch bar-raising experiences for customers around the world. You have a passion for solving our customers' problems, always putting their needs first.
About the team
You'll join the Shopping Design team at Amazon—a group of designers, technologists, program and product managers who design the global Amazon shopping experience for customers. We own the end-to-end shopping experience, and design the features that make it easy for customers to discover, evaluate, and transact on Amazon. We enable 300+ shopping designers outside of our organization and thousands of tech resources with design patterns, systems, tools, customer insights, and best practices to design a cohesive and delightful shopping CX. Our mission is to design magical shopping experiences that customers use daily and love.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or similar
- Knowledge of design process
- Experience in visual design demonstrated through design concepts, case studies, documentation, mockups and style guides
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in a highly agile environment
- Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
- Knowledge of mobile and web design patterns and accessibility standards
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, WA, Seattle
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: 81,000.00 - 141,700.00 USD annually
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Product Designer
Frame your portfolio around specialty occupation
USCIS evaluates whether your role requires a theoretical design degree, not just skills. Annotate portfolio case studies to show how your HCI or interaction design education directly drove your decisions, not just your outcomes.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter Product Designer roles by employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for design-specific SOC codes, so you're applying where visa sponsorship infrastructure already exists.
Check prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Run the OFLC Wage Search using SOC code 27-1021 and your target metro area before any salary discussion. Your employer's LCA must certify at least the prevailing wage, and negotiating below it creates a compliance problem at filing.
Verify your role maps to the right SOC code
Product Designer duties can fall under multiple SOC codes depending on your focus. Pull the O*NET profile for 27-1021 and confirm your actual job tasks align, since a mismatched code on the LCA can trigger a Request for Evidence.
Time your application around the cap registration window
H-1B cap registration opens each March for an October 1 start date. If your offer comes outside that window, ask your employer whether the role qualifies for a cap-exempt institution or whether a cap-gap extension covers your OPT period.
Clarify who owns filing fees before accepting the offer
USCIS prohibits employers from passing certain H-1B filing fees to you. Confirm in writing which fees your employer covers before signing, particularly for premium processing if a faster decision is important to your start date.
H-1B Visa Product Designer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Product Designer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as industrial design, human-computer interaction, or interaction design. Job postings that list a degree as preferred rather than required weaken the specialty occupation argument. Review the job description carefully and confirm the requirement is explicit before your employer files the LCA.
Which employers actually sponsor H-1B visas for Product Designers?
Technology companies, enterprise software firms, and large financial institutions sponsor the most Product Designer H-1B petitions. Smaller startups sponsor less frequently, not because they're unwilling, but because they often lack in-house immigration counsel. Browse Migrate Mate to find Product Designer openings filtered by employers with verified H-1B filing history for design roles specifically.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new Product Designer role mid-employment?
Yes. H-1B portability lets you start working for a new employer as soon as the transfer petition is received by USCIS, as long as your previous status was lawful and the petition is non-frivolous. Your new employer must file a new I-129 and LCA. You don't need to wait for approval before starting, but the role must still qualify as a specialty occupation.
What happens to my H-1B if I'm laid off from a Product Designer position?
You have a 60-day grace period after losing your H-1B employment to find a new sponsoring employer, file a change of status, or depart the U.S. The 60-day window starts the day your employment ends, not when the layoff is announced. Filing an H-1B transfer petition before the grace period expires allows you to maintain lawful status while USCIS adjudicates the new petition.
Does a contractor or freelance Product Designer arrangement qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Only if a single employer controls your work and bears an employer-employee relationship as USCIS defines it. Independent contractor arrangements where you set your own hours and work for multiple clients simultaneously don't meet the employer-employee test. If you're placed at a client site through a staffing agency, the agency is your H-1B petitioner, but USCIS scrutinizes third-party placement petitions for specialty occupation evidence more closely.