Josh Schober

About Josh Schober

I\'m a UX design and research leader who is excited about what the future may…

Experience

1. Sr Manager, Ux Design and Research, Amazon Halo

   Amazon

   Feb 2021 — Present

   I’m currently the Head of UX Design and Research for Amazon Halo, a new membership program for holistic health & wellbeing, featuring a wellness tracker and companion app with AI and computer vision powered experiences, easy to use workouts, sleep programs, and nutritional plans to help customers achieve their objectives. The mission of Amazon’s Halo team is to create products and services that empower customers, enterprises, and care providers to improve our customers’ health. My key responsibilities include setting the product vision for the org, managing the funding, budgets, and mechanisms of the group, and hiring and developing a high performing team.

Education

• Columbia College Chicago

  BFA, Graphic Design

  2001 — 2005

• Terra.do

  Climate Change: Learning for Action, Climate Science

• General Assembly

  UX Design

  2014 — 2015

• Purdue University

  Graphic Design

  2000 — 2001

Skills

• User Experience
• Responsive Web Design
• Surveys
• User Journeys
• Business Strategy
• Wireframes
• SEO
• Task Analysis
• Integrated Marketing
• Creative Strategy
• Logo Design
• Typography
• Usability Testing
• Creative Concept Development
• Contextual Inquiry
• Participatory Design
• Mobile Applications
• User Interface Design
• Personas
• Human-Centered Design
• User Experience Design
• User Interview
• Agile Web Development
• Advertising
• Affinity Mapping
• Html
• Style Guides
• Trade Shows
• Sitemap
• Web Design
• A/B Testing
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Information Architecture
• Css
• Graphic Design
• Art Direction
• Creative Direction
• Paper Prototyping
• Branding & Identity