Senior Design Technologist – Creative X Platform Lead

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's CrX Design Tech team is seeking a Senior Design Technologist to join the intersection of design, engineering, and creative systems. You will architect and own systems that allow prototyping within production constraints, and lead development of agent-based systems at scale across surfaces such as Store, Alexa, and Prime Video.

This role thrives in high ambiguity, loves systems thinking, and has a track record of building platforms and tools for others to rely on.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience.
• Experience as a front-end developer creating prototypes or wire-frames for enterprise web applications or workflows.
• Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or similar.
• Track record of delivering inventive prototypes and leading technical direction across teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own systems that allow anyone to prototype within production constraints
• Build and lead development of agent-based systems, coordinating parallel workstreams
• Partner with science to refine GenAI creative workflows, influencing implementation decisions and setting quality standards
• Develop large prototypes (full products, major features); lead a team to execute
• Prototype rapidly, ship production-ready code, and write software that is easy for others to contribute to
• Mentor junior Design Technologists and contribute to DT assessments and hiring bar-raising
• Drive process improvements, creating tools and services that increase team output
• Impact customer experience for an entire product or major feature set, often on strategic initiatives

Skills

Front-end prototyping

Design systems

GenAI workflows

React

JavaScript

Figma

Git

Prototyping architecture

Tools

React

JavaScript

Git

Docker

Job description

Amazon's CrX Design Tech team is seeking a Senior Design Technologist to join the intersection of design, engineering, and creative systems. You will architect and own systems that allow prototyping within production constraints, and lead development of agent-based systems at scale across surfaces such as Store, Alexa, and Prime Video.

This role thrives in high ambiguity, loves systems thinking, and has a track record of building platforms and tools for others to rely on.