Senior Design Technologist, Generative AI Innovation Center

As a senior Design Technologist, you will work as a technical leader alongside customer business, development and infrastructure teams. You will facilitate technical and design discussions with IT executives to help enterprises speed their adoption of new technologies and practices, build solutions or prototypes for large customer-facing features, work efficiently and routinely to deliver the right things with limited guidance.

The role requires the ability to focus on ambiguous problem areas in known or new customer experiences. Proactively identify opportunities and/or problems with product User Experience (UX). For larger prototyping and product integration efforts, you are able to split development work into parallel tasks that can be performed by you and others and then reassembled into a successful prototype launch. Understand the business and technology impact of the experiences you create for customers. You show good judgment and influence trade-offs between desired short-term feature and longer-term product implications of various UX proposals. Stay on top of UX design and technology trends, understanding when to use them and how to adapt them to your product use cases and the scale of the project. You are a key influencer in product strategy. Drive mindful discussions with customers, product managers, other designers, engineers, and stakeholders. You bring perspective and provide context for current technology choices and guide future technology choices. Understand that not all problems are new (or require new software). You make appropriate architectural trade-offs. Your code submissions and approach to work are exemplary – your solutions are inventive, secure, easily maintainable, appropriately scalable, and extensible. You will drive the adoption (and when appropriate, creation) of prototyping tools, frameworks, and platforms. You set standards and drive adherence to quality and design best practices for your team. You work to resolve the root cause of endemic problems including areas where your team limits the innovation of other teams (bottlenecks). This may require you to influence UX and technical design decisions made by other teams. When confronted with discordant views, you are able to find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path (build consensus). You actively recruit and help others leverage your expertise by coaching and mentoring in your organization (or at your location). You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their UX skills, technical knowledge,and engineering practices. Your team is stronger because of your presence, but does not require your presence to be successful.

Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)

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.

About the team
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Diverse Experiences
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
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We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Atlanta, GA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | CA, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Washington, DC, USA

Basic Qualifications

– Bachelor’s degree, or 10+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience
– 7+ years of software development with object oriented language experience
– Experience in cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system
– 7+ years of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience
– Experience designing and prototyping with tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Axure, Keynote, and InVision.

Preferred Qualifications

– Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
– Demonstrated success as a software developer, application architect, product manager, CTO, or consultant working with various platforms
– Architecting, designing and developing applications on the AWS platform.
– Designing and building application using Container and serverless technologies.
– Exposure to Agile software development and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and automated deployment.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $122,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.