Amazon
Design Director, Amazon North American Stores
Amazon, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90079
Description
North America Stores Marketing is on a mission to make Amazon the most-loved shopping destination for customers. We aspire to meet customers where they are with a steady drumbeat of inspiring, relevant, and automated content that builds upon recent shopping missions while also introducing them to new and timely ideas. We do this by combining technology, science, innovation, marketing, and creativity to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside cutting-edge tools for marketers. We are looking for creative, customer-obsessed, curious, and highly entrepreneurial leaders to join our team.
The ideal candidate has a strong visual design background, is self-directed, detail-oriented, and comfortable with ambiguity. As a Design Director, you have strong organizational skills, web expertise, intrinsic design ability, and typographic skills. You will play a significant role in engaging customers and creating a best-in-class customer experience via digital store design and digital marketing initiatives. This role provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact by collaborating closely with talented marketing, business, and tech leaders to unlock cross-category discovery.
Key job responsibilities
• Maintain the highest design standards and inform the work with data wherever possible.
• Produce graphic standards, templates, layouts, guidelines and design graphics
• Lead designers in the completion of projects as necessary, providing clear direction and constructive feedback
• Exceptionally skilled at image curation, visual storytelling, typography, layout, form and color
• Work from creative briefs alongside key stakeholders to develop executions for digital marketing activities.
• Identify opportunities to incorporate emerging design trends and digital innovations into creative and marketing strategies.
• Present concepts and produced work to stakeholders and internal customers, including senior management, in person and via video/phone.
• Quickly turn around detailed comps/mockups in an iterative environment.
• Work cross-team, lead the design process, and synthesize feedback and input from stakeholders.
• Work closely with operations teams to scope projects and forecast resourcing needs to build production capacity, communicating needs and trade-offs when appropriate
Basic Qualifications
Have an online portfolio demonstrating strong visual design skills and advertising experience across a range of media and platforms, along with work that reflects your design process
8+ years of design experience
Strong time management skills and ability to be self-directed as needed
Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
Highly proficient in Figma, Adobe Suite and related design and production software
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as visual communications or graphic design
Preferred Qualifications
Self-motivated team player, with refined and effective leadership skills
Ability to influence others to set and achieve goals and deadlines
Excellent concept and creative development skills
Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
Effective cross-team collaborator with the ability to work across multiple creative projects
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 $127,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $210,300/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.
North America Stores Marketing is on a mission to make Amazon the most-loved shopping destination for customers. We aspire to meet customers where they are with a steady drumbeat of inspiring, relevant, and automated content that builds upon recent shopping missions while also introducing them to new and timely ideas. We do this by combining technology, science, innovation, marketing, and creativity to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside cutting-edge tools for marketers. We are looking for creative, customer-obsessed, curious, and highly entrepreneurial leaders to join our team.
The ideal candidate has a strong visual design background, is self-directed, detail-oriented, and comfortable with ambiguity. As a Design Director, you have strong organizational skills, web expertise, intrinsic design ability, and typographic skills. You will play a significant role in engaging customers and creating a best-in-class customer experience via digital store design and digital marketing initiatives. This role provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact by collaborating closely with talented marketing, business, and tech leaders to unlock cross-category discovery.
Key job responsibilities
• Maintain the highest design standards and inform the work with data wherever possible.
• Produce graphic standards, templates, layouts, guidelines and design graphics
• Lead designers in the completion of projects as necessary, providing clear direction and constructive feedback
• Exceptionally skilled at image curation, visual storytelling, typography, layout, form and color
• Work from creative briefs alongside key stakeholders to develop executions for digital marketing activities.
• Identify opportunities to incorporate emerging design trends and digital innovations into creative and marketing strategies.
• Present concepts and produced work to stakeholders and internal customers, including senior management, in person and via video/phone.
• Quickly turn around detailed comps/mockups in an iterative environment.
• Work cross-team, lead the design process, and synthesize feedback and input from stakeholders.
• Work closely with operations teams to scope projects and forecast resourcing needs to build production capacity, communicating needs and trade-offs when appropriate
Basic Qualifications
Have an online portfolio demonstrating strong visual design skills and advertising experience across a range of media and platforms, along with work that reflects your design process
8+ years of design experience
Strong time management skills and ability to be self-directed as needed
Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
Highly proficient in Figma, Adobe Suite and related design and production software
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as visual communications or graphic design
Preferred Qualifications
Self-motivated team player, with refined and effective leadership skills
Ability to influence others to set and achieve goals and deadlines
Excellent concept and creative development skills
Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
Effective cross-team collaborator with the ability to work across multiple creative projects
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 $127,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $210,300/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.