Principal Design Technologist: SSOG Prototyping & Production

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Principal Design Technologist to act as technical advisor for AWS SSOG, shaping novel interaction models and turning prototypes into production-ready Rhythm components on AWS Core. You’ll influence across six products and drive a self-learning design flywheel with Delight Lab findings.

You’ll pair with design-system engineers, push frontier patterns, and raise the bar for the entire design org through concrete prototypes and reusable components.

Qualifications

• Shipped, production-grade interfaces for complex, data-dense tech products.
• Expert front-end engineering: high-fidelity prototypes and production code.
• Experience building design-system components at scale.
• Translate novel concepts into validated, shippable patterns.
• Staff/Principal level design technologist experience.
• Influence teams with prototypes, tooling, and examples.

Responsibilities

• Advise on which novel interaction models to pursue and map the path to production.
• Advance agentic interaction design with high-fidelity prototypes.
• Origin new patterns and reusable components, setting technical standards.
• Turn prototypes into Rhythm components used across products.
• Build tooling and systems to scale interaction patterns.
• De-risk bets by early feasibility testing and iteration.

Skills

Shipped UI interfaces

Front-end engineering

Design system ownership

Staff/Principal experience

Technical advisory influence

Prototype-driven development

Tools

React

TypeScript

HTML/CSS

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Principal Design Technologist to act as technical advisor for AWS SSOG, shaping novel interaction models and turning prototypes into production-ready Rhythm components on AWS Core. You’ll influence across six products and drive a self-learning design flywheel with Delight Lab findings.

You’ll pair with design-system engineers, push frontier patterns, and raise the bar for the entire design org through concrete prototypes and reusable components.