We are looking for an experienced Design Technologist to bridge the gap between design and engineering. In this role, you will deliver innovative, production-quality design solutions that address complex challenges at scale. You bring deep UX expertise combined with strong technical skills, giving you credibility as both a design leader and a technical contributor.
You will work at the intersection of design, research, and engineering — turning concepts into functional prototypes and production-ready experiences that delight customers.
Why Join Us?
- Work on products that reach millions of customers worldwide
- Shape the future of customer experiences through innovation, technical design and prototyping
- Collaborate with world-class designers, researchers, and engineers
- Grow your career in a culture that values invention, ownership, and customer obsession
Key job responsibilities
- Deliver innovative design solutions that address complex UX challenges through code and technical implementation
- Proactively identify UX problems and opportunities to improve the customer experience
- Build high-fidelity, functional prototypes that communicate design intent and validate concepts with real interactions
- Adapt and extend industry prototyping tools to large-scale use cases unique to our products
- Guide future UX choices by demonstrating what's technically possible through working prototypes
- Present design solutions and technical approaches to management and cross-functional stakeholders
- Collaborate closely with UX designers, UX researchers, and software engineers to bring designs to life
- Develop production-ready front-end code that meets engineering standards for performance, accessibility, and scalability
- Evaluate emerging technologies and frameworks to advance the team's prototyping and development capabilities
- Mentor other designers and engineers on design-technology best practices
About the team
Our team is part of Region services that owns the Product Registry of services across AWS, providing the ability for service teams to track, report and self-correct feature catalog. It establishes a source of truth for AWS feature catalog metadata including Naming, Categorization, Life cycle stage, contacts, hierarchy, regional availability, technical dependencies and artifact repository. Achieve parity across AWS regions by enabling service teams with region expansion. The team is also responsible for publishing service team roadmap to external AWS customers using AWS Capabilities by Region and self-hosted Capability Insights.
Basic Qualifications
- 7+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience
- Have coding samples in front end programming languages
- Experience developing visually polished, engaging, and highly fluid UX prototypes
- Experience collaborating with UX, Product, and technical partners
- 6+ years of participating in the complete product development lifecycle of successfully launched applications experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of databases and AWS database services: ElasticSearch, Redshift, DynamoDB
- Experience with machine learning (ML) tools and methods
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, NY, New York - 169,600.00 - 229,500.00 USD annually
