Senior Design Technologist, Creative X

Were looking for a Senior Design Technologist to join the Creative X Design Tech team at Amazon Ads. Youll sit at the intersection of design engineering and creative systems leading the architecture strategy and development of infrastructure tools and intelligent systems that accelerate how creative teams work collaborate and ship across surfaces including Amazon Store Alexa and Prime Video.

This is a role for someone who thrives in high ambiguity loves systems thinking and has a track record of building platforms and tools that others rely on. Youll operate across a range of complex challenges from design-to-production scaffolding to intelligent agent systems that connect teams and surface insights to refining GenAI-powered creative workflows that meet high quality bars. The common thread: you own the technical vision for the connective tissue that makes our creative ecosystem faster smarter and more reliable.

The CrX Design Tech team is being built with a clear charter and scope. Youll shape what Design Technology means in this organization define the teams technical architecture and influence UX and technology strategy across multiple teams.

Key job responsibilities
- Architect and own systems that allow anyone to prototype within production constraints
- Build and lead development of agent-based systems coordinating parallel workstreams
- Partner with science to refine GenAI creative workflows influencing implementation decisions and setting quality standards
- Develop large prototypes (full products major features); lead a team to execute
- Prototype rapidly ship production-ready code and write software that is easy for others to contribute to
- Mentor junior Design Technologists and contribute to DT assessments and hiring bar-raising
- Drive process improvements creating tools and services that increase team output
- Impact customer experience for an entire product or major feature set often on strategic initiatives

Who Youll Work With:
- UX Designers
- Engineering teams
- Applied Scientists
- Product Management
- UX Researchers
- Design system teams
- Leadership (providing data-driven insights and automated visibility)
- Cross-functional teams (influencing features and technology owned by other teams)

- 8 years of front-end technologist engineer or UX prototyper experience
- Experience as a front-end developer creating prototypes or wire-frames for enterprise web applications or workflows
- Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma Adobe Creative Cloud or similar
- Track record of delivering inventive prototypes and leading technical direction across teams

- Knowledge of Python Javascript and source control (Git)
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems or experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience building web applications with React and modern web technologies
- Proficiency in engineering best practices (rendering performance client compatibility)
- Demonstrated ability to own a teams prototyping architecture and make trade-offs balancing short-term needs against long-term business goals
- Ability to bridge design and engineering translating fluently between both worlds
- Track record of innovative intuitive design solutions for complex ambiguous challenges
- Experience splitting and coordinating parallel development work across contributors
- Ability to proactively identify UX opportunities and guide future UX choices

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA Santa Monica - 154200.00 - 208600.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 169600.00 - 229500.00 USD annually
USA WA SEATTLE - 154200.00 - 208600.00 USD annually