Sr. Design Technologist, Amazon Devices

Description
The Amazon Devices and Services Design Group (DDG) is a multidisciplinary design team that is responsible for the UX of Echo Family Devices, Alexa Mobile, Fire TV, Fire Tablets and more. DDG’s mission is to bring to life delightful, easy-to-use, and high value experiences for our customers.
We're looking for a Sr. Design Technologist to join our growing Design Engineering team. You’ll apply your deep technical expertise to advancing design and product concepts through software and hardware prototyping. You will design with code, provoking design thinking and iteration through demos, installations, and walkthroughs.
You will work quickly, choosing the right technology for the task at hand, to flesh out design concepts (interaction, visual, and motion). You’ll help your peers unlock technically challenging scenarios and mature the design studio’s ability to deliver design at scale, across a breadth of devices. You will work around platform limitations and push platform capabilities through your work. Your curiosity will inspire those around you and facilitate team growth, while your hands-on, collaborative nature will build trust with your peers and studio partners.
Key job responsibilities

• Advance design thinking through your knowledge of platform capabilities and limitations as you support your design team and work with partner engineering teams
• Work quickly with minimal documentation and technical support
• Build high-quality, functional prototypes that convey, prove, and advance the vision of future products and applications
• Work with designers, product managers, management, internal business partners and other subject matter experts
• Participate in the full lifecycle of product development; including ideation, design, development, implementation and validation
• Collaborate with design leadership and key stakeholders from concept through shipping

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of databases and AWS database services: ElasticSearch, Redshift, DynamoDB
• Experience with machine learning (ML) tools and methods

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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $123,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2370062