Visual Designer, TMT - Variable

Amazon•Santa Monica, CA

28d

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. The Ideal Candidate Has: • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and is comfortable meeting with 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.

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.
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

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
Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices.
Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences.

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.