Applicants must be a native-level Portuguese speaker; this role is seated in
Toronto but will work exclusively with our São Paulo, Brazil team. Applicants
must also be cleared for international travel, and willing to travel up to
3x/year to the São Paulo office
Design Technology is Amazon Brand Innovation Lab’s custom development and
prototyping team that works with advertisers, 1p teams, and agencies. We focus
on the conception, prototyping, and execution of branded custom experiences
across the Amazon canvas. In agencies, such roles are often called Creative
Technologists.
As a member of the Brand Innovation Lab’s Design Technologists you will split
your time between execution and strategy. You will contribute to the definition
of new ad products, pre-sales prototypes, and custom campaign executions, all
while working directly with Art, Copy, Interactive Experience Designers, Product
Managers, Producers and Account teams.
You will have comprehensive understanding of the current state – and future – of
web technology with a critical awareness of implications on user-centered
design. You have strong communication skills and are comfortable with a range of
technologies: React/JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, XML/JSON, Adobe Creative Suite,
WCAG AA/accessibility standards, GenAI/LLMs, and have experience with Figma and
AWS.
You are customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, comfortable working on highly
technical teams and are skilled in collaboration with non-technical creative
counterparts. You are a leader in the never-ending process of improving your own
and your team’s standards, writing documentation, and are able to handle
multiple projects in a high-velocity environment with a high-level of autonomy.
You can translate business requirements into bar-raising customer experiences by
thinking first from a customer’s perspective and setting relentlessly high
standards to achieve them.
You are equally passionate about design and development. You have strong
front-end proficiency, are a creative problem solver at the core and have a keen
eye for world class functional design. You will bring disruptive ideas for how
to concept, create, and deliver branded shopping experiences for millions of
customers worldwide and work across desktop, mobile, Fire tablet, Fire TV,
Alexa, Twitch, Amazon Live and other Amazon properties.
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
· Own the end-to-end development process and deliverables from a design and
technical perspective
· Provide design and technical leadership; work closely with business teams in
development of campaign strategy, use cases, and technical requirements
· Concept first-to-market innovations that utilize Amazon’s canvas alongside
creative counterparts
· Present work to peers, product teams, clients, agencies, and Senior leadership
· Provide leadership, mentorship, and coaching to your immediate and extended
team
· Partner with program and product managers to appropriately identify and assess
features for future product offerings
Here are some things that we’re looking for:
· Proven web development experience across multiple devices, web-views and
browsers
· Proven ability to simplify complex problems into intuitive and elegant
experiences
· Ability to deliver functional prototypes on various devices
· Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across
different audiences and varying levels of the organization
· Ability to participate in the full lifecycle of design and development –
including ideation, prototyping, development, backwards compatibility,
fail-overs, validation, and user-testing
Please include your online portfolio and process examples in your application.
About the team
Brand Innovation Lab is dedicated to crafting innovative advertising campaigns
and products that enable brands to distinguish themselves on Amazon. We aim to
captivate our mutual customers by facilitating new discoveries, rewarding
engagement, and assisting in informed purchasing decisions.
Recognizing the continuously evolving expectations of both customers and brands,
Design Technologists explore new innovation avenues for brands to come to life
on Amazon.
