Design Technologist, Amazon Advertising - Brand Innovation Lab
Description
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 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 Typescript/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
Responsibilities include:
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
Please include your online portfolio and process examples in your application.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience as a front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper
- Have coding samples in front end programming languages
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience with web, mobile web, or mobile app front-end development
- Experience with UI design for complex workflows and for end users
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of technologies such as JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, Responsive/Adaptive Design
- Knowledge of Python, Javascript, and source control (Git)
- Experience in building Webflow pages and components
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