Visual Designer, TMT - Variable

Amazon • Santa Monica, CA

295d • $108,400 - $185,000

About The Position

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 Designer, detail-oriented, and comfortable with ambiguity. 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 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with e-commerce, search, social, and other major application types and their UX patterns.
• Experience creating services and applications with multiple user touch points on different platforms and devices.
• Experience in designing for both mobile and desktop applications.
• Experience with motion design and video editing is a bonus.

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.
• Quickly turn around detailed comps/mockups in an iterative environment.
• Work closely with art directors to influence best practice photo direction for each placement.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree