Design Technologist (Portuguese speaking), Amazon Brand Innovation Lab, Amazon Brand Innovation Lab

Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in e-commerce is seeking a Design Technologist to innovate customized advertising experiences in Toronto. The role involves technical leadership in design projects, requiring front-end proficiency and a passion for collaboration. As part of the Brand Innovation Lab, you will work directly with creative teams to deliver compelling solutions for a global audience.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of front-end technologist experience.
• Proven ability to simplify complex problems.
• Native-level Portuguese speaker required.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end development process from design to delivery.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to the team.
• Concept first-to-market innovations utilizing Amazon’s canvas.

Skills

Communication

Analytical

Creativity

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Education

BS / MS in computer science, technology, design

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

AWS

Job description

• 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 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 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• Have coding samples in front end programming languages
• Native-level Portuguese speaker
• 3+ years of ad or design agency experience
• Excellent written / verbal communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills
• Whiteboarding, which is included of the hiring process
• Client and agency presenation
• Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite applications including Media Encoder, After Effects, and Photoshop
• Understanding of WCAG AA standards and accessibility fluency
• Experience using Figma to translate designs to websites
• Experience using AWS in production environments
• Understanding of performance and how to mitigate latency issues
• Experience building work to high accessibility standards

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Familiar with creative ideation and brainstorm sessions with internal and external partners
• Familiarity with Android and / or iOS development
• Familiarity with GenAI / LLMs, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Alexa, Voice Design
• BS / MS in computer science, technology, design, or equivalent professional experience

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.

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