Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios is hiring: Senior Design Technologist, Prime Vi

Job Overview

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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.

Key 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)
• Thrive in a fast-paced, iterative environment with ambiguous challenges and brand new customer experiences

A Day in the Life

As a Senior Design Technologist at Prime Video, you’ll have the opportunity to wear many hats. We build prototypes across the Prime Video customer journey from helping customers discover their favorite content to designing new playback experiences including X-Ray, live sports, and advertising. Our team builds high-fidelity prototypes for TV, mobile and web clients using frontend technologies such as HTML/CSS/JS, React.js, Redux and Motion.js. Our team develops prototypes using AWS Bedrock to envision brand new Gen AI powered experiences for our customers.

About The Team

We’re scrappy yet detail‑oriented, knowing when to build quickly versus diving into the details to produce higher fidelity prototypes. We bring our own design vision and support our design and engineering partners to help them ship faster. We also partner closely with UX researchers to create new experiences that our customers get to test and provide feedback on. Our prototypes are demoed to senior leadership to showcase what the future of Prime Video will look and feel like for our customers.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of front‑end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• Have coding samples in front‑end programming languages
• Experience developing visually polished, engaging, and highly fluid UX prototypes
• Experience collaborating with UX, Product, and technical partners

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of databases and AWS database services: ElasticSearch, Redshift, DynamoDB
• Experience with machine learning (ML) tools and methods
• Experience in one or more of the following: Native mobile development (Android/iOS), Python, Objective‑C, Swift, C#, HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, web and server programming and Responsive/Adaptive design, Java, SQL

Equal Opportunity Employer

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

Compensation

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,800 per year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,900 per year in our highest geographic market, depending on location. Additional compensation may include equity, sign‑on payments, and a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.