Design Technologist, Amazon
Amazon Brand Innovation Lab
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Proven web development experience across multiple devices, web-views 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, fail-overs, validation, and user-testing Please include your online portfolio and process examples in your application
- Experience as a front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper
- Experience using AWS in production environments
- Experience collaborating with UX, Product, and technical partners
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience developing visually polished, engaging, and highly fluid UX prototypes
- 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, better if experienced with Tensorflow, ThreeJS
- Understanding of performance, accessibility, and how to mitigate latency issue
Desirable
- Familiarity with the AWS Stack and configuration: S3, CloudFront, Lambda, Route 53, IVS, etc
- Have previous experience as UX or Interaction Designer
- * 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
- BS/MS in computer science, technology, design, or equivalent professional experience
What the job involves
- As a Design Technologist you will split your time between execution and strategy
- You will be contributing to the definition of new ad products, pre-sales 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 user-centered design
- Owning the end-to-end 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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