Visual Designer, US Prime & Marketing Tech, Seasonal Events & Systems

Amazon•Santa Monica, CA

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 tools for marketers. We are looking for creative, customer-obsessed, curious, and highly entrepreneurial leaders to join our team. We're looking for a Visual Designer who is detail-oriented and comfortable with ambiguity. In this role, you will leverage experimentation and performance data to inform your approach. 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.

Requirements

4+ years of design experience
Have an available online portfolio
Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
Have an online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating strong knowledge in visual communication, branding guidelines, conceptual work and digital executions.
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.
in visual communications, graphic design or related field
Effective cross-team collaborator with the ability to work across multiple creative projects.
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
Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology
Collaboration with peers, partners and stakeholders to ensure high-quality, cohesive deliverables through the entire design process.
Ability to drive the design process by independently defining requirements, scoping projects and prioritizing tasks.

Responsibilities

Create best-in-class visual design assets.
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 and synthesize feedback and input from stakeholders.
Expertise in animation to help create bar-raising motion designs.
Expertise in Figma to help create bar-raising creative.