Principal Design Technologist, Prime Video Closed Amazon

Skills / Requirements

• AI Tooling
• AI-assisted Development
• AWS Database Services
• Component Libraries
• Design Systems
• Elasticsearch
• Enterprise Tools
• Frontend Development
• GenAI
• HTML/CSS
• JavaScript
• Machine Learning
• Motion.js
• Prototyping
• Rapid Prototyping
• React JS
• Redux
• Technical Leadership
• UX Prototyping
• Vibe Coding

Why Apply

This role is ideal for someone skilled in AI-assisted development, as it involves training teams in AI tooling and leveraging GenAI for automating tasks. You'll use AI to streamline workflows and enhance design systems.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll lead the creation of UX prototypes for Prime Video's enterprise tools, focusing on AI-enabled solutions. This includes training team members in AI tools, collaborating with design and engineering teams, and building prototypes to validate new concepts.

Pay and Career Growth

The role offers a competitive salary and the chance to influence Prime Video's enterprise product strategy. You'll be part of a team that values innovation and provides opportunities for leadership in AI and design technology.

Benefits and Perks

• Career Development
• competitive salary
• Inclusive culture
• workplace accommodation

Is This Role Right for You?

Original Job Description

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.

As a Principal Design Technologist, you’ll be a strategic leader within our PVXD
organization, specifically supporting the Enterprise (PRIZE) team. Your role
will be all about defining the vision, proving, advancing, and evolving
forward-looking UX concepts for enterprise tools through prototyping and
hands-on product work. You’ll lead other design technologists, set the technical
direction for bringing ambitious design ideas to life, and play a critical role
in three key areas: training and up-skilling the PVXD org in AI tooling,
providing design system support for our new enterprise-focused design system,
and building high-fidelity prototypes for 0-1 initiatives that help secure
buy-in from cross-functional partners for new ideas in the enterprise portfolio
space.

Key job responsibilities
* Define and drive the technical vision for design prototyping across Prime
Video’s enterprise product portfolio
* Train and upskill designers, PMs, and cross-functional partners across PVXD
(and specifically in the PRIZE product space) in AI tooling and prototyping
capabilities, establishing the org as leaders in AI-first design
* Build bespoke, AI-enabled solutions that solve pervasive everyday problems
across the organization, streamlining undifferentiated work and enabling teams
to focus on high-value strategic initiatives
* Provide dedicated design technology support for the creation and maintenance
of Prime Video’s new enterprise-focused design system, working closely with
design system leads to build, document, and evolve component libraries
* Build high-fidelity, functional prototypes of 0-1 initiatives for enterprise
experiences that can be tested with real customers (3P/1P partners, operators,
content creators) to validate concepts and secure buy-in from cross-functional
partners and leadership
* Lead collaboration with design leadership, engineering leadership, and senior
stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle for enterprise tools serving both
internal teams and external partners
* Mentor and guide design technologists, designers, researchers, PMs, and
engineers to drive concepts from idea to implementation, with a focus on
enterprise workflow optimization
* Establish best practices and technical standards for design prototyping across
web-based enterprise platforms and operator tools
* Advance design thinking by leveraging deep platform expertise and emerging
technologies, particularly GenAI/ML applications for automating undifferentiated
manual tasks in enterprise workflows
* Champion innovation in a fast-paced, iterative environment with ambiguous
challenges and brand new customer experiences for content publishing,
localization, and marketing automation
* Influence product strategy through technical prototyping that demonstrates
feasibility and customer value for enterprise users

A day in the life
As a Principal Design Technologist on the PVXD Enterprise team, you’ll have the
opportunity to lead transformative work across the enterprise content lifecycle.
You’ll define the technical approach for prototypes spanning Slate’s content
delivery workflows, Marketing Automation’s AI-powered creative asset generation,
Backlot Create’s production tools, and Workbench/Axis 2.0’s localization
workflows. You’ll architect high-fidelity prototypes for web-based enterprise
platforms using frontend technologies such as HTML/CSS/JS, React.js, Redux, and
Motion.js.

You’ll spend time conducting hands-on training sessions and workshops to upskill
PVXD designers and partners on AI prototyping tools, vibe coding techniques, and
emerging GenAI capabilities. You’ll collaborate closely with the enterprise
design system team to build and maintain component libraries, create
documentation, and ensure system consistency across enterprise products. Most
importantly, partner with UX Designers on the Enterprise team to build testable
prototypes of 0-1 concepts that can be put in front of real customers—whether
they’re studio partners uploading content to Slate, marketers using AI-generated
assets, or localization teams managing subtitle workflows—to gather feedback and
demonstrate value to engineering and product partners.

About the team
You’ll be joining the Enterprise Experience & Design Program Management team
within PVXD. Our core differentiator is that we’re not just an enterprise UXD
team, GenAI serves as the connective tissue that transforms both what Prime
Video delivers and how we deliver it. 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 partner closely with UX researchers and design technologists to create new
experiences that our enterprise customers (3P/1P partners, operators, content
creators, and internal teams) get to test and provide feedback on. Our
prototypes are demoed to senior leadership to showcase what the future of Prime
Video’s enterprise tools will look and feel like.
Basic Qualifications: * 10+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX
prototyper experience
* Have an available online portfolio demonstrating leadership in design
technology
* Have coding samples in front end programming languages showcasing technical
depth and breadth
* Proven experience developing visually polished, engaging, and highly fluid UX
prototypes at scale
* Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring technical teams
* Experience influencing product strategy through prototyping and technical
leadership
* Strong track record collaborating with senior UX, Product, and Engineering
leaders
* Experience training and enabling design teams to adopt new tools and technical
capabilities
* Experience contributing to or building design systems, including component
development and documentation
* Experience prototyping and scaling internal tools from concept to
implementation Preferred Qualifications: * Deep knowledge of databases and AWS
database services: ElasticSearch, Redshift, DynamoDB
* Extensive experience with machine learning (ML) tools and methods,
particularly Gen AI applications
* Expert-level experience in multiple areas: Native mobile development
(Android/iOS), Python, Objective-C, Swift, C#, HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, web and
server programming and Responsive/Adaptive design, Java, SQL
* Experience establishing technical standards and best practices for design
technology teams
* Track record of innovation in design prototyping methodologies and tools
* Experience presenting technical work to executive leadership
* Experience with AI-assisted development and rapid prototyping tools

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

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customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package
will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final
compensation will be determined based on factors including experience,
qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits
including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &
AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health
Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy
Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits
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USA, WA, Seattle – 183,500.00 – 248,200.00 USD annually