Design Technologist, Prime Video
About the role
As a Design Technologist, you'll be a key part of our Experience Design organization. Your role will be all about proving, advancing, and evolving forward-looking 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
- Build high-quality, functional prototypes that convey and advance the vision of future products
- Collaborate with design leadership and key stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle
- Work alongside designers, researchers, PMs, and engineers to drive concepts from idea to implementation
- Advance design thinking by leveraging your platform expertise (e.g. web, mobile, TV)
A day in the life
As a Design Technologist at Prime Video, you'll have the opportunity to wear many hats. We build prototypes across the Prime Video customer journey from helping customers discover their favorite content to designing new playback experiences including X-Ray, live sports, and advertising. Our team builds high-fidelity prototypes for TV, mobile and web clients using frontend technologies such as HTML/CSS/JS, React.js, Redux and Motion.js. Our team develops prototypes using AWS Bedrock to envision brand new Gen AI powered experiences for our customers.
About the team
We're scrappy yet detailed-oriented, knowing when to build quickly versus diving into the details to produce higher fidelity prototypes. We bring our own design vision and support our design and engineering partners to help them ship faster. We also partner closely with UX researchers to create new experiences that our customers get to test and provide feedback on. Our prototypes are demoed to senior leadership to showcase what the future of Prime Video will look and feel like for our customers.
Basic Qualifications
- 1+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Have coding samples in front end programming languages
- Experience with web, mobile web, or mobile app front-end development
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of API frameworks
- Knowledge of technologies such as JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, Responsive/Adaptive Design
- Knowledge of Python, Javascript, and source control (Git)
- Experience with AWS Services including EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS
Pay
- USA, CA, Culver City: $122,600.00 - $163,600.00 USD annually
- USA, CA, San Francisco: $122,600.00 - $186,600.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, SEATTLE: $81,000.00 - $141,700.00 USD annually
Benefits
- 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
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)