Design Technologist (Portuguese speaking), Amazon Brand Innovation Lab, Amazon Brand Innovation Lab

*** Applicants must be a nativelevel Portuguese speaker; this role is seated in Toronto but will work exclusively with our So Paulo Brazil team. Applicants must also be cleared for international travel and willing to travel up to 3x/year to the So Paulo office ***

Design Technology is Amazon Brand Innovation Labs custom development and prototyping team that works with advertisers 1p teams and agencies. We focus on the conception prototyping and execution of branded custom experiences across the Amazon canvas. In agencies such roles are often called Creative Technologists.

As a member of the Brand Innovation Labs Design Technologists you will split your time between execution and strategy. You will contribute to the definition of new ad products presales prototypes and custom campaign executions all while working directly with Art Copy Interactive Experience Designers Product Managers Producers and Account teams.

You will have comprehensive understanding of the current state and future of web technology with a critical awareness of implications on usercentered design. You have strong communication skills and are comfortable with a range of technologies: React/JavaScript/NodeJS HTML/CSS XML/JSON Adobe Creative Suite WCAG AA/accessibility standards GenAI/LLMs and have experience with Figma and AWS.

You are customerobsessed detailoriented comfortable working on highly technical teams and are skilled in collaboration with nontechnical creative counterparts. You are a leader in the neverending process of improving your own and your teams standards writing documentation and are able to handle multiple projects in a highvelocity environment with a highlevel of autonomy. You can translate business requirements into barraising customer experiences by thinking first from a customers perspective and setting relentlessly high standards to achieve them.

You are equally passionate about design and development. You have strong frontend proficiency are a creative problem solver at the core and have a keen eye for world class functional design. You will bring disruptive ideas for how to concept create and deliver branded shopping experiences for millions of customers worldwide and work across desktop mobile Fire tablet Fire TV Alexa Twitch Amazon Live and other Amazon properties.

Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
Own the endtoend development process and deliverables from a design and technical perspective
Provide design and technical leadership; work closely with business teams in development of campaign strategy use cases and technical requirements
Concept firsttomarket innovations that utilize Amazons canvas alongside creative counterparts
Present work to peers product teams clients agencies and Senior leadership
Provide leadership mentorship and coaching to your immediate and extended team
Partner with program and product managers to appropriately identify and assess features for future product offerings

Here are some things that were looking for:
Proven web development experience across multiple devices webviews and browsers
Proven ability to simplify complex problems into intuitive and elegant experiences
Ability to deliver functional prototypes on various devices
Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
Ability to participate in the full lifecycle of design and development including ideation prototyping development backwards compatibility failovers validation and usertesting

Please include your online portfolio and process examples in your application.

About the team
Brand Innovation Lab is dedicated to crafting innovative advertising campaigns and products that enable brands to distinguish themselves on Amazon. We aim to captivate our mutual customers by facilitating new discoveries rewarding engagement and assisting in informed purchasing decisions.

Recognizing the continuously evolving expectations of both customers and brands Design Technologists explore new innovation avenues for brands to come to life on Amazon.



3 years of frontend technologist engineer or UX prototyper experience
Have an available online portfolio
Have coding samples in front end programming languages
Nativelevel Portuguese speaker
3 years of ad or design agency experience
Excellent written/verbal communication presentation interpersonal and analytical skills
Understanding and fluent usage across a broad spectrum of technologies including (but not limited to): React/JavaScript/NodeJS HTML/CSS XML/JSON and Responsive/Adaptive Design GenAI / LLMs
Whiteboarding which is included of the hiring process
Client and agency presenation
Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite applications including Media Encoder After Effects and Photoshop
Understanding of WCAG AA standards and accessibility fluency
Experience using Figma to translate designs to websites
Experience using AWS in production environments
Understanding of performance and how to mitigate latency issues
Experience building work to high accessibility standards

Familiar with creative ideation and brainstorm sessions with internal and external partners
Familiarity with Android and/or iOS development
Familiarity with GenAI/LLMs Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Alexa Voice Design
BS/MS in computer science technology design or equivalent professional experience

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