Design Technologist, AWS Marketing CX

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Join AWS Marketing as a Design Technologist and help revolutionize how we shape our website experiences. In this role, you'll pioneer prototyping as a fundamental capability that drives our digital strategy forward. Working within a dynamic cross-functional team, you'll craft innovative prototypes that demonstrate critical functionality and influence product decisions through hands-on exploration of design, usability, and technical feasibility.

Your expertise will be instrumental in transforming abstract concepts into interactive, testable prototypes, enabling rapid hypothesis testing and validation. Collaborating closely with design, product, and engineering teams, you'll serve as a bridge between creative vision and technical implementation. This position offers significant ownership of large-scale prototyping initiatives that carry widespread impact across our digital presence.

We're seeking someone who thrives on experimentation and innovation. You'll have both the autonomy and encouragement to push boundaries, challenge conventions, and create novel solutions that enhance our customers' experiences. Your work will directly influence how millions of users interact with AWS platforms, making this an opportunity to drive meaningful change at a global scale.

The ideal candidate combines technical prowess with creative problem-solving abilities, turning complex challenges into elegant, user-centric solutions. If you're passionate about creating seamless digital experiences and want to shape the future of cloud computing's public face, this role offers the perfect platform to make your mark.

Key job responsibilities
- Actively participate in concept development and design ideation as part of a cross-functional team.
- Rapidly build and iterate on functional prototypes that express design intent, using the best and most appropriate tools and techniques for the task.
- Partner with engineering to ensure that interactive techniques and technologies translate through to shipping products and services.
- Be able to work creatively through and around perceived limitations and/or challenges imposed by the delivery platform to create delightful experiences for customers.
- Lead large, wide impact DT projects. Examples could include a specific tool or feature that crosses many disparate areas of the site or product line.
- Lead others and set direction in the face of ambiguity
- Participate in annual planning and end-to-end design process
- Evaluate and document any new creative and/or engineering standards or patterns that could arise from your work
- Proactively mentor and develop other Designers and Engineers
- Effectively present work to all levels of leadership

About the team
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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