Design Tech Manager, POD

Advertising is being remade. The brands that win the next decade will be the ones that figure out how to deliver creative that is personal performant and produced at a scale no human team can match alone. Generative AI is the unlock. But generation alone is not the advantage. The advantage belongs to the system that connects creation to delivery to learning and gets better with every impression.
Amazon Ads is building that system. We are investing in the models the infrastructure and the product intelligence to make personalized brand-aligned creative a default capability for every advertiser not a luxury reserved for the largest budgets. The work is early the stakes are high and the opportunity to define how this category develops is real.
We are building that system. And we need a Design Tech Manager to build and lead the team that makes it real.

Key job responsibilities
As Design Tech Manager for PODs Design Technology team you will build and lead a frontline team of Design Technologists and AI prototypers the block-shaped generalists who span design engineering and data. Your team sits at the intersection of design vision and production reality. You dont just prototype concepts; you ship functional experiments with real model behavior graduate winners into engineering roadmaps and set the technical bar for how design and AI interact across the creative stack.
This is a player-coach role. You will manage develop and grow a team of 48 DTs while remaining a credible technical and design voice in cross-functional conversations with engineering science and product leadership. You will own the teams execution define its standards and drive the process improvements that let POD ship at the velocity the best AI organizations demand.


A day in the life
Team Leadership & People Development
Hire develop and retain a high-performing team of Design Technologists and AI prototypers; own their growth performance and career trajectories
Set clear expectations provide direct and actionable feedback and conduct rigorous performance assessments in partnership with other design technology leaders
Build a team culture grounded in craft speed and learning where shipping a working prototype beats presenting a polished deck
Actively recruit and grow design technology talent across the organization; mentor individual contributors at multiple levels
Technical & Design Leadership
Lead the team in building large-scale production-quality prototypes for PODs highest-priority AI and creative initiatives
Establish and enforce technical standards across prototype and reference code including security maintainability scalability and extensibility
Drive adoption of shared prototyping tools frameworks and platforms across the design org; create infrastructure that multiplies team output
Serve as a trusted technical voice for engineering partners; earn credibility through demonstrated quality and architectural thinking
Execution & Delivery
Own the teams delivery against PODs roadmap; break complex ambiguous problems into parallel workstreams and drive execution with limited guidance
Operate at the intersection of design and engineering embedding directly with product and science teams to pair on implementation and polish in production
Compress the cycle from design concept to live production test; move fast on standardized formats and faster on novel ones
Identify and resolve root causes of endemic workflow problems; build tools and services that increase team throughput
Cross-Functional Influence
Influence UX strategy and technical direction across POD and its partner organizations
Build consensus across discordant views; represent the design technology perspective in planning roadmap and architecture conversations
Partner with creative product and science leadership to ensure prototype work is grounded in real advertiser and shopper problems and that winning experiments have a clear path to scale


- 7 years of experience as a Design Technologist Creative Technologist or equivalent role building production-quality prototypes at the intersection of design and engineering
- 3 years of people management experience including hiring performance management and team development
- Proficiency across web mobile and emerging AI/generative interfaces; ability to build functional prototypes using real model APIs and production data
- Strong understanding of software design patterns component architecture and the ability to extend and debug third-party libraries and frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to work on large ambiguous problems with limited guidance and deliver results

- Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma Adobe Creative Cloud or similar
- Familiarity with generative AI systems image generation video generation LLM-powered interfaces or agentic workflows
- Experience driving process improvements and building shared tooling that scales team output
- Track record of influencing technical and design decisions across multiple teams
- Familiarity with accessibility standards design systems and UX research integration

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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 NY New York - 186600.00 - 252400.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 169600.00 - 229500.00 USD annually