Sr. Design Technologist, Amazon

Advertising Design Technology is Amazons custom development and prototyping team for advertisers and agencies. We focus on the conception prototyping and execution of branded custom experiences across Amazon properties.
As a Design Technologist you will split your time between execution and strategy. You will be contributing to the definition of new ad products presales prototypes and custom campaign execution all while working directly with Designers Product Managers Engineers 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 feel comfortable reading writing and reviewing vanilla JavaScript both on the client and server building your own libraries and creating task automation to speed up development.

You are customerobsessed detailoriented comfortable working on highly technical teams and are skilled in using data and insights to make decisions. You feel comfortable in writing documentation and handling multiple projects in a fastpaced environment with a highlevel of autonomy.
You are equally passionate about design and development. You have strong frontend proficiency be 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 conceive create and deliver branded shopping experiences for millions of customers worldwide and work across desktop mobile Fire tablet Fire TV Alexa Out of Home and emerging devices.


Key job responsibilities
Owning the endtoend development process and deliverables from a design and technical perspective
Work closely with business teams to develop campaign strategy use cases and technical requirements.
Presenting work to peers product teams and executive leadership
Develop high quality scalable and maintainable solutions.
Partnering 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 new 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.

A day in the life
* Collaborating with Solution Mangers and creative teams to prototype concepts for client pitches
* Developing custom landing pages displayed on
* Collaborating with Art Directors and Interactive Designers to craft exceptional and achievable campaign experiences
* Building custom landing pages for FireTV and Brandstores
* Creating proofs of concepts for novel ideas such as interactive AR experiences activated through Amazons mobile app
* Unlock a new Amazon touchpoint to be used for Advertising purposes
* Develop internal AI tools


* Considerable experience as frontend engineer/developer and/or UX Engineer.
* Experience in advanced prototyping with Figma/Sketch.
* Excellent written/verbal communication presentation interpersonal and analytical skills.
* Understanding and fluent usage across a broad spectrum of technologies including (but not limited to): Vanilla JS Typescript NodeJS React Redux SASS/CSS WebGL and Responsive Web Development.
* Be a Creative Developer: In depth experience with React React Spring Framer Motion and complex UI animations.
* Understanding of performance accessibility and how to mitigate latency issue.

* Familiarity with the AWS Stack and configuration: S3 CloudFront Lambda Route 53 IVS etc.
* Experience using AWS in production environments
* Familiarity with digital marketing advertising and metrics across Consumer Packaged Goods market.
* Familiar with creative ideation and brainstorm sessions with internal and external partners
* Familiarity with Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Alexa Voice Design WebGL and creative frontend.
* Familiarity with using the Bash scripting/shell and SSH.
* BS/MS in computer science technology design or equivalent professional experience.

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