Amazon is hiring: Senior Design Technologist, Prime Video in Seattle

Job ID: 2801584 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is changing the way people watch movies and TV. From one service, we’re delivering versatile ways to watch hundreds of thousands of movies, TV series, and live events on the web, mobile, and TV. Our service is available in more than 200 territories globally, and we’re just getting started.

Working closely with business and technology partners, we use research, design, and prototyping to guide early product development, bring clarity to engineering goals, and develop a customer-centric point of view. This is where you come in.

As a Senior Design Technologist, you'll be a key part of our UX design organization. Your role will be all about proving, advancing, and evolving cutting-edge UX concepts through prototyping and hands-on product work. You'll work alongside other design technologists to bring design ideas (interactions, visuals, motion) to life.

Key job responsibilities

1. Build high-quality, functional prototypes that convey and advance the vision of future products
2. Collaborate with design leadership and key stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle
3. Work alongside designers, researchers, PMs, and engineers to drive concepts from idea to implementation
4. Advance design thinking by leveraging your platform expertise (e.g. web, mobile, TV)

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 4+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience
2. Have an available online portfolio
3. Have coding samples in front end programming languages
4. Experience developing visually polished, engaging, and highly fluid UX prototypes
5. Experience collaborating with UX, Product, and technical partners

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Understanding of WCAG AA standards and accessibility fluency
2. Expertise in working creatively around constraints and navigating ambiguous projects
3. Experience leading the development of complex prototypes
4. Experience with a broad range of technologies, including mobile devices, gaming consoles, smart TVs, hardware prototyping, and IoT
5. Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, CI/CD, testing, and operational excellence
6. Experience with machine learning (ML) tools and methods, including familiarity with common frameworks, understanding of core ML concepts, and the ability to prototype and integrate ML-powered features into interactive applications
7. Excellent communication skills, including collecting requirements, describing features, and designing technical solutions

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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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