Design Technologist, AWS Marketing CX

About the role

Join AWS Marketing as a Design Technologist and help revolutionize how we shape our website experiences. In this role, you'll pioneer prototyping as a fundamental capability that drives our digital strategy forward. Working within a dynamic cross-functional team, you'll craft innovative prototypes that demonstrate critical functionality and influence product decisions through hands-on exploration of design, usability, and technical feasibility.

Your expertise will be instrumental in transforming abstract concepts into interactive, testable prototypes, enabling rapid hypothesis testing and validation. Collaborating closely with design, product, and engineering teams, you'll serve as a bridge between creative vision and technical implementation. This position offers significant ownership of large-scale prototyping initiatives that carry widespread impact across our digital presence.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in concept development and design ideation as part of a cross-functional team.
• Rapidly build and iterate on functional prototypes that express design intent, using the best and most appropriate tools and techniques for the task.
• Partner with engineering to ensure that interactive techniques and technologies translate through to shipping products and services.
• Work creatively through and around perceived limitations and/or challenges imposed by the delivery platform to create delightful experiences for customers.
• Lead large, wide impact DT projects, such as a specific tool or feature that crosses many disparate areas of the site or product line.
• Lead others and set direction in the face of ambiguity.
• Participate in annual planning and end-to-end design process.
• Evaluate and document any new creative and/or engineering standards or patterns that could arise from your work.
• Proactively mentor and develop other Designers and Engineers.
• Effectively present work to all levels of leadership.

Requirements

• Experience designing and launching new products from the ground up.
• Experience with web, mobile web, or mobile app front-end development.
• BS degree in computer science or equivalent, or 4+ years of technical work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs.
• Portfolio of work that demonstrates how you have used technology to create design solutions.

Benefits

• 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.
• Parental leave.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $131,800.00 - $178,300.00 USD annually in Chicago, IL, and $145,000.00 - $196,100.00 USD annually in New York, NY. 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.