Lead Print and Color Designer, Amazon Private Brands

Amazon•Santa Monica, CA

About The Position

Join Amazon's Private Brands Art team as a Lead Print and Color Designer, creating innovative designs for Home, Kids & Baby, and Licensed Products. Reporting to the Global Creative Print Manager, you'll develop customer-obsessed designs that reach millions through our rapidly growing fashion business. We are seeking a creative and highly skilled Lead Print and Color Designer to join our team, specializing in designing for Home, Kids& Baby, and Licensed Products. This role reports to the Global Creative Print Manager. You'll thoughtfully curate seasonal assortment and collaboration projects, demonstrating strong problem-solving skills and bias for action. Success in this role requires effective collaboration across diverse digital platforms and global teams. As a Lead Print and Color Designer, you'll create original patterns using both traditional and digital techniques, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to adapt prints across product categories. Your role includes reviewing seasonal trends, optimizing designs for different materials, building cohesive collections, and working with licensing partners. This dynamic position combines creative innovation with technical precision to deliver compelling prints and high quality products that resonate with our customers. The Art team is a creative powerhouse within Amazon Private Brands, delivering innovative print designs across our growing portfolio of private label brands. As a centralized service, we manage all aspects of the creative process - from trend research and concept development to color management and print design. Working collaboratively across product categories, we combine creative excellence with data-driven insights to create compelling products our customers love.

Requirements

5+ years of design experience
Have an available online portfolio
Experience in Adobe Creative Suit applications, with high proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Acrobat using macOS

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of branding guidelines and corporate identity, visual design, print and digital layout design
Proficient in Nedgraphics, Aquario or similar CAD software.

Responsibilities

Research and interpret seasonal trends, color palettes, and patterns to create artworks in line with our brand DNA.
Curate color palettes using Brand core palette and Trend relevant colors. Keep Palettes up to date in PLM systems.
Collaborate with PD, BM, Design teams to align prints with customer preferences and market needs.
Support Print Manager to create trends and mood boards and present concepts to cross-functional teams.
Leverage archived, and purchased prints or create original print designs using various techniques.
Design repeat patterns and engineered prints tailored to product and fabric specifications.
Adapt prints for a variety of materials and product applications across categories.
Create colorways variation using concept, seasonal color palettes and brand guidelines.
Support Print Manager to archive and input approved artworks into our PLM system.
Partner with product designers, developers, and licensors to ensure designs meet technical requirements and brand guidelines.
Support Print Manager with artwork assortment, deck creation, product mock ups
Work closely with print technician to facilitate production and ensure quality control.