Design Director, Haul

Amazon • Seattle, WA

6d

About The Position

Amazon is seeking a Design Director to focus on one of Amazon’s newest
offerings: Haul. You will be responsible for creating and sustaining design
direction for Haul and guiding a team of designers to develop impactful work
that delights our customers across all channels. This role requires exceptional
creative leadership and strategic thinking to solve complex marketing asks
through a creative lens.

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, 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.

Requirements

• 8+ years of driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team experience
• Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Keynote
• Experience developing cross-functional relationships with product, consumer research and marketing teams to develop strategy and consumer insights that drive compelling creative executions
• Experience leading creative development of innovative creative from concept to delivery
• Experience managing creative (internal team of designers, copywriters, external agencies and freelancers)
• Experience presenting creative concepts effectively to senior executives
• Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines

Responsibilities

• Oversee design direction for Haul programs across email, site, push, paid, social and homepage
• Mentor and develop designers through design reviews and cultivate a culture of continuous learning, improvement and self-sufficiency
• Identify opportunities to incorporate emerging marketing trends and GenAI innovations into the creative strategy and execution
• Lead ideation sessions and design reviews
• Proactively solve problems on behalf of the team, seeking clarification when faced with ambiguity and escalating as necessary
• Communicate with key stakeholders internally and externally in a spirit of collaboration, building strong relationships, and articulating complex issues/problems effectively.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director