Design Technologist, Amazon Studio

Amazon Visual Innovation Services builds the world's best online shopping experience through photography, video, and usability design enabling millions of customers to make more informed purchasing decisions. Visual Innovation at Amazon is a large and fast-growing network of teams located throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, focusing on fashion and product photography, retouching, graphic design, video, 3D, virtual production, automated image acquisition, and image support services. We are continually innovating and setting new industry standards for showcasing 10s of millions of products across multiple global marketplaces. We are obsessed with innovating on behalf of our customers, and continually push beyond the boundaries of traditional e-commerce photography and videography. We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly-skilled Digital Technician (Digitech) / Equipment Manager for our fast paced Studio. Successful candidates will be self-starters, strong communicators, very detail-oriented and highly organized. The Digitech will be responsible for performing quality checks and providing feedback on all digital assets created, archiving and maintenance of the assets and act as the primary point of contact for post-productions teams. The candidate will need a strong background in computer hardware and software and be able to recommend new technologies that ensure our studios stay at the forefront of the industry. Joining our team provides a unique opportunity to help represent the Amazon brand visually, set global video standards, and innovate with creative sensibility for our customers.

You will inspire confidence by your project management and tenacity in meeting deadlines, and show an unwavering attention to detail and an acute awareness that everything counts. You will provide clear ownership and accountability to anything you drive and see it through beyond completion. You will show a relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business priorities.,

• Experience writing scripted workflows (Python, JavaScript, AppleScript, Powershell, or similar). Familiar AWS S3 client-side automation, metadata standards, and workflow automation.
• 3+ years of digital asset management experience working with an enterprise-level DAM system
• In-depth experience with Capture One, Photoshop, Bridge, video software including Premiere Pro, OBS, Windows and Mac environments, and large-scale asset file management.
• Strong understanding of color profile management policies and best practices, including the ability to color shift and manage multiple peripheral devices
• Proven ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines
• Ability to learn and master proprietary internal tools
• Effective communication skills and the ability to handle multiple projects from beginning to end, under tight and evolving deadlines
• A motivated and professional attitude, with the ability to maintain high levels of confidentiality, Experience as a front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper
• Have coding samples in front end programming languages
• Have an available online portfolio
• Experience with web, mobile web, or mobile app front-end development
• Experience with UI design for complex workflows and for end users
Preferred Qualifications
• Knowledge of technologies such as JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, Responsive/Adaptive Design
• Knowledge of Python, Javascript, and source control (Git)
  
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