Amazon is hiring: Visual Designer, US Prime & Marketing Tech in New York
Amazon, New York, NY, United States, 10261
Job ID: 2903788 | Amazon.com Services LLC
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 innovative tools for marketers. We are looking for creative, customer-obsessed, curious, and highly entrepreneurial leaders to join our team.
The ideal candidate is an experienced, self-directed Visual Designer, detail-oriented, comfortable with ambiguity and experienced in animation/motion design. In this role, you will leverage experimentation and performance data to inform your approach, creating best practices and playbooks to drive quick adoption and progress. The Visual Designer will create best-in-class layouts and visuals that support organizational objectives while partnering with marketing teams to ensure that designs meet our customer and business needs. 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
- Present concepts and produced work to stakeholders and internal customers, including senior management.
- Understand and respond to performance data (metric tests, usability studies), and steer the direction of future creative designs.
- Understand usability principles that help drive successful design.
- Work cross-team, lead the design process, and synthesize feedback and input from stakeholders.
- Expertise in animation to help create bar-raising motion designs.
About the team
The Amazon North America Creative team is responsible for crafting bold, efficient, and breakthrough marketing content to reach and resonate with today's audience. We aspire to meet customers wherever they may be—on social media, on their phones and devices, across the site, in their inboxes—and provide easy ingresses to the site via beautiful, inclusive, inspiring, and innovative content. We believe in creative that speaks to our customers, reinforces the Amazon brand promises (selection, value, and convenience) and highlights our best offerings—be that top brands, offers, member benefits, etc.—while driving the business forward and meeting our marketing goals.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating strong visual communication, a deep understanding of typography, color, print and digital executions, and great user-centered design solutions.
• 5+ years of relevant experience with visual design.
• Strong time management skills and the ability to be self-directed as needed.
• High proficiency in motion/animation design.
• 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.
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Effective cross-team collaborator with the ability to work across multiple creative projects.
• Expert understanding of the web production process; familiarity with post-production retouching.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and is comfortable meeting with senior stakeholders regularly.
• A demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and workstreams and prioritize deliverables.
• A strong sense of ownership, urgency, independence, and flexibility.
• The technical aptitude to learn the systems and technology used in our day-to-day business.
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.
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