Sr. Art Director, Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab is looking for a talented and passionate Conceptual Creative (Art Director) to create one-of-a-kind campaigns for a wide range of brands. You’ll partner with copywriters, designers, solutions managers and producers to create first-class customer experiences both on and offline by innovating with the Amazon canvas (Prime Video, Alexa, Twitch etc). You'll lead projects and own client relationships, focusing on creating work that benefits the end customer while pushing the creative envelope from brief to execution.
This role will use data and insights to create campaign strategy and concepts, develop designs and the look and feel for experiences, as well as templates for never-before-done brand experiences that will solve customer problems, on and off Amazon platforms. You have strong conceptual, presentation, storytelling and project management skills, as well as digital media, and of course, an acute attention to detail.
The candidate’s portfolio should feature interesting, insight-driven campaigns and ideas that solve an advertiser problem through a variety of different media channels, including but not limited to video, social, digital, activations, radio, and outdoor. This role will be client-facing, so having good presentation skills to share work in a succinct and compelling way is important.
Key job responsibilities
Concept, design and execute innovative ad - campaigns and experiences for global brands
Partner with copywriters, designers, program managers, developers, strategists and producers to create customer-focused solutions that deliver on advertiser objectives
Independently lead campaigns and collaborate with internal teams, clients and external agency partners
Deliver high-quality designs and stellar art direction for campaigns across different Amazon touch points
In-depth understanding of Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Keynote - Data-driven and obsessed with understanding customers and making work that delivers results
Present ideas and concepts to clients, agencies and internally
Proven ability to ideate for film/streaming, print, digital, out-of-home, experiential and social
Ability to manage multiple projects at one time to make deadlines - Mentor and inspire younger designers and creatives - You know, the usual stuff
A day in the life
- Partnering with IMDb on how to create a reality content series for a soap brand
- Designing a trivia experience for a brand using Prime Video titles
- Invent a product that helps revolutionize cooking with a chip brand
- Presenting a campaign to brand clients and their partner media agency
- Reviewing video edits for influencer product launch campaign
- Innovating what's next on Amazon for our advertisers
About the team
The Brand Innovation Lab team is the internal group within Amazon that creates one-of-a-kind campaigns and activations for global advertisers, like Pepsi, Microsoft, Adidas, Samsung, and Unilever. Using all of the different platforms within the Amazon canvas (Alexa, Twitch, Prime Video, Custom landing pages on Amazon.com, etc.), we create campaigns that reach millions of Amazon customers across our digital channels and out in the real-world. The Endemic pod specifically deals with brands that sell directly on Amazon – sneakers, laptops, detergent, soda, etc. If it arrives in a bag or a box, that's a brand you could work on.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team experience
- Knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Keynote
- Must have an online portfolio URL in your resume - demonstrating big, campaignable thinking that can extend into any medium
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- - You are scrappy, insightful and an innovative problem solver
- - You bring verbal flair and conceptual excellence to the work, inspiring clients and team members to raise the creative bar
- - You tell stories that connect brands with customers in a meaningful way, across different all channels, creating work that's on strategy and delivers results
- - You love presenting to clients and internal folks, but can also handle feedback like a pro
- - You regularly push your comfort zone to stretch and improve yourself, never thinking "that's not my job"
- - You are passionate about design, technology, advertising, marketing, and are always keeping pace with it
- - You use data and insights to create work that resonates with customers
- - You are ego-free and are highly collaborative, working with a diverse group of people and learning from them
- - You are a self starter, spotting an opportunity and making something out of nothing
- - You aren’t afraid to question the status quo, and take steps to change things for the better
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $210,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.