Senior Design Technologist, Amazon Brand Innovation Lab
Amazon.com
Amazon Advertising's Brand Innovation Lab is seeking a talented and passionate Senior Design Technologist to craft customer-obsessed digital experiences. Our team is dedicated to helping advertisers promote their brands on Amazon in innovative and creative ways.
Applicants should possess a comprehensive understanding of the current and emerging trends in web technology, with a critical awareness of their implications on user-centered design. You should have strong communication skills and expertise in a wide range of technologies, including React/JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, XML/JSON, Adobe Creative Suite, WCAG AA/accessibility standards, and GenAI/LLMs. Experience with Figma and AWS is also required.
You are customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, and adept at working on highly technical teams while collaborating effectively with non-technical creative counterparts. You excel in improving team standards, writing thorough documentation, and managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy. You can translate business requirements into exceptional customer experiences by prioritizing the customer perspective and maintaining relentlessly high standards.
Equally passionate about design and development, you possess strong front-end development skills, a creative problem-solving mindset, and a keen eye for world-class functional design. You will contribute disruptive ideas for conceptualizing, creating, and delivering branded shopping experiences for millions of customers worldwide. Your work will span across platforms such as desktop, mobile, Fire tablet, Fire TV, Alexa, Twitch, Amazon Live, and other Amazon properties.
To apply, please include your online portfolio and examples of your processes to demonstrate your suitability for this role.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end development process and deliverables from a design and technical perspective and deliver high quality, bug free code.
- Provide design and technical leadership; work closely with business teams in development of campaign strategy, use cases, and technical requirements
- Concept first-to-market innovations that utilize Amazon’s canvas alongside creative counterparts
- Prototype new features and products, tackling ambiguous challenges that affect the global team.
- Optimize internal processes and tooling for broader impact, strategically aligning initiatives to maximize revenue and influence
- Present work to peers, product teams and Senior leadership
- Provide leadership, mentor, and coaching to your immediate and extended team on the latest industry trends, tooling, and best practices in web development and design
- Expand your influence by collaborating with partner teams, increasing productivity and effectiveness within the Brand Innovation Lab.
A day in the life
Amazon Brand Innovation Lab's Design Technology team works on custom development and prototyping 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.
You will split your time between execution and strategy. You will contribute to the definition of new ad products, pre-sales prototypes, and custom campaign executions, all while working directly with Art Directors, Copywriters, Creative Directors, Interactive Experience Designers, Product Managers, Producers and Account teams.
You will lead the research, prototyping, and development of large, first-to-market digital experiences that set new standards for design and technical excellence. This role requires a blend of tactical expertise and strategic influence to amplify your impact across global teams and projects. You will play a pivotal role in shaping how brands are perceived and interacted with on Amazon’s many surfaces at a global scale.
About the team
You will work under the guidance of Brand Innovation Lab's Global Head of Design Technology and Experience Design, collaborating closely with other creatives (including art directors, copywriters, and fellow designers), design technologists, and program managers. Additionally, you will be responsible for communicating with both internal partners (including Sales, product, and engineering teams) and external stakeholders to deliver innovative results through all stages from concept development to final execution.
Applicants should possess a comprehensive understanding of the current and emerging trends in web technology, with a critical awareness of their implications on user-centered design. You should have strong communication skills and expertise in a wide range of technologies, including React/JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, XML/JSON, Adobe Creative Suite, WCAG AA/accessibility standards, and GenAI/LLMs. Experience with Figma and AWS is also required.
You are customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, and adept at working on highly technical teams while collaborating effectively with non-technical creative counterparts. You excel in improving team standards, writing thorough documentation, and managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy. You can translate business requirements into exceptional customer experiences by prioritizing the customer perspective and maintaining relentlessly high standards.
Equally passionate about design and development, you possess strong front-end development skills, a creative problem-solving mindset, and a keen eye for world-class functional design. You will contribute disruptive ideas for conceptualizing, creating, and delivering branded shopping experiences for millions of customers worldwide. Your work will span across platforms such as desktop, mobile, Fire tablet, Fire TV, Alexa, Twitch, Amazon Live, and other Amazon properties.
To apply, please include your online portfolio and examples of your processes to demonstrate your suitability for this role.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end development process and deliverables from a design and technical perspective and deliver high quality, bug free code.
- Provide design and technical leadership; work closely with business teams in development of campaign strategy, use cases, and technical requirements
- Concept first-to-market innovations that utilize Amazon’s canvas alongside creative counterparts
- Prototype new features and products, tackling ambiguous challenges that affect the global team.
- Optimize internal processes and tooling for broader impact, strategically aligning initiatives to maximize revenue and influence
- Present work to peers, product teams and Senior leadership
- Provide leadership, mentor, and coaching to your immediate and extended team on the latest industry trends, tooling, and best practices in web development and design
- Expand your influence by collaborating with partner teams, increasing productivity and effectiveness within the Brand Innovation Lab.
A day in the life
Amazon Brand Innovation Lab's Design Technology team works on custom development and prototyping 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.
You will split your time between execution and strategy. You will contribute to the definition of new ad products, pre-sales prototypes, and custom campaign executions, all while working directly with Art Directors, Copywriters, Creative Directors, Interactive Experience Designers, Product Managers, Producers and Account teams.
You will lead the research, prototyping, and development of large, first-to-market digital experiences that set new standards for design and technical excellence. This role requires a blend of tactical expertise and strategic influence to amplify your impact across global teams and projects. You will play a pivotal role in shaping how brands are perceived and interacted with on Amazon’s many surfaces at a global scale.
About the team
You will work under the guidance of Brand Innovation Lab's Global Head of Design Technology and Experience Design, collaborating closely with other creatives (including art directors, copywriters, and fellow designers), design technologists, and program managers. Additionally, you will be responsible for communicating with both internal partners (including Sales, product, and engineering teams) and external stakeholders to deliver innovative results through all stages from concept development to final execution.
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