Design Technologist
Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios
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Job Description
About Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios
Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is changing the way people watch movies and TV. From one service, we’re delivering versatile ways to watch hundreds of thousands of movies, TV series, and live events on the web, mobile, and TV. Our service is available in more than 200 territories globally, and we’re just getting started.
Working closely with business and technology partners, we use research, design, and prototyping to guide early product development, bring clarity to engineering goals, and develop a customer-centric point of view. This is where you come in.
The Role of a Design Technologist
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-thinking 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)
Basic Qualifications
- 1+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience
- 2+ years of web development for digital marketing, advertising, product management or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of technologies such as JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, Responsive/Adaptive Design
- Have an available online portfolio
- Have coding samples in front end programming languages
- Experience in testing and QA environments
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of API frameworks
- Experience using AWS in production environments
Key skills/competency
- Prototyping
- UX Design
- Front-end Development
- JavaScript
- HTML/CSS
- Responsive/Adaptive Design
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Design Thinking
- API Integration
- AWS
How to Get Hired at Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios
- Research Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume: Highlight prototyping, front-end development, and UX experience relevant to Amazon.
- Showcase your portfolio: Emphasize functional prototypes and coding samples in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Prepare for technical interviews: Focus on web development, responsive design, and potentially AWS or API frameworks.
- Demonstrate collaboration: Be ready to discuss experience working with designers, PMs, and engineers in a product lifecycle.
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