Design-Technologist, Brand Innovation Lab Job ID: 2684197 | Amazon Online Italy S.R.L. - E15
Advertising Design Technology is Amazon's 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, pre-sales prototypes, and custom campaign execution, all while working directly with Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and Account teams.
You will have a comprehensive understanding of the current state (and future) of web technology with a critical awareness of implications on user-centered 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 customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, 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 fast-paced environment with a high level of autonomy.
You are equally passionate about design and development. You have strong front-end 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 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
Here are some things that we're looking for:
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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS Considerable experience as a developer or technologist
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, NodeJS, React, Redux, SASS/CSS, and Responsive/Adaptive Design
Experience using AWS in production environments
Understanding of performance and how to mitigate latency issues
Familiar with design tools like Sketch and Figma
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Familiarity with the AWS Stack and configuration: S3, CloudFront, Lambda, Route 53, EC2, Bedrock, and ML
Familiarity with digital marketing, advertising, and metrics across the Entertainment 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
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