Design Technologist, Brand Innovation Lab in Toronto, Ontario

Description

Design Technology is Amazon Brand Innovation Lab’s custom development and prototyping team that works 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.

As a member of the Brand Innovation Lab’s Design 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, Copy, Interactive Experience Designers, Product Managers, Producers 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. You have strong communication skills and are comfortable with a range of technologies: React/JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, XML/JSON, Adobe Creative Suite, WCAG AA/accessibility standards, GenAI/LLMs, and have experience with Figma and AWS.

You are customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, comfortable working on highly technical teams and are skilled in collaboration with non-technical creative counterparts. You are a leader in the never-ending process of improving your own and your team’s standards, writing documentation, and are able to handle multiple projects in a high-velocity environment with a high-level of autonomy. You can translate business requirements into bar-raising customer experiences by thinking first from a customer’s perspective and setting relentlessly high standards to achieve them.

You are equally passionate about design and development. You have strong front-end proficiency, are 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 concept, create, and deliver branded shopping experiences for millions of customers worldwide and work across desktop, mobile, Fire tablet, Fire TV, Alexa, Twitch, Amazon Live and other Amazon properties.

Key job responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

· Own the end-to-end development process and deliverables from a design and technical perspective

· 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

· Present work to peers, product teams and Senior leadership

· Provide leadership, mentor, and coach to your immediate and extended team

· Partner 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 various 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.

About the team

Brand Innovation Lab is dedicated to crafting innovative advertising campaigns and products that enable brands to distinguish themselves on Amazon. We aim to captivate our mutual customers by facilitating new discoveries, rewarding engagement, and assisting in informed purchasing decisions.

Recognizing the continuously evolving expectations of both customers and brands, Design Technologists explore new innovation avenues for brands to come to life on Amazon.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience

• Have an available online portfolio

• Have coding samples in front end programming languages

• Experience with web, mobile web, or mobile app front-end development

• Experience with UI design for complex workflows and for end users

• 3+ years of ad or design agency experience

• Excellent written/verbal communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills

• Understanding and fluent usage across a broad spectrum of technologies including (but not limited to): React/JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, XML/JSON, and Responsive/Adaptive Design

• Whiteboarding, which is included of the hiring process

• Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite applications including Media Encoder, After Effects, and Photoshop

• Understanding of WCAG AA standards and accessibility fluency

• Experience using Figma to translate designs to websites

• Experience using AWS in production environments

• Understanding of performance and how to mitigate latency issues

• Experience building work to high accessibility standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of technologies such as JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, Responsive/Adaptive Design

• Knowledge of Python, Javascript, and source control (Git)

• Familiar with creative ideation and brainstorm sessions with internal and external partners

• Familiarity with Android and/or iOS development

• Familiarity with GenAI/LLMs, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Alexa, Voice Design

• BS/MS in computer science, technology, design, or equivalent professional experience

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.