Visual Designer, Amazon Music

Amazon is looking for an exceptional Visual Designer to join the Amazon Music team to support international expansion. In this role, you will be creating a variety of digital assets used to acquire and engage Amazon Music customers in new marketplaces. You will be working alongside a global team of Designers, Marketers, and Product Managers to deliver your designs.

• • • At Amazon, we strive to be Earth’s most customer-centric company. We work every day to surprise and delight our customers through smart and purposeful design. Your work should not only reflect that ideal, but raise the bar to create a world-class experience. Your work will be seen by millions of people each day across Amazon’s homepage, the Amazon Music app, email, and mobile marketing channels.

      The ideal candidate must have experience working in an iterative process and professionally accept art direction and feedback. In addition to strong design skills, a candidate must have strong organizational skills, web expertise, typographic skills, and acute attention to detail.

      Responsibilities:
      

      • Create merchandising and marketing campaigns that elevate Amazon’s device brand across multiple marketing channels
      • Understand and respond to performance data (metric tests, usability studies), and steer the direction of future creative designs
      • Understand user experience best practices for web design & mobile interactions
      • Use current and future marketing channels to inform and delight our customers
      • Present and defend visual design solutions to leadership & business partners
      • Collaborate with the Amazon design community at large to ensure consistent brand use across multiple marketing channels
      • Grow team knowledge of best design practices and trends in web and graphic design
      • Work with various categories to refresh/improve Amazon device’s presence in their categories

      Basic Qualifications
      

      • An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating online marketing, retail merchandising, visual branding, and great user-centered design solutions.
      • Minimum of 7 years of experience in online marketing, digital advertising & retail or e-commerce design
      • Experience managing multiple projects and the ability to meet aggressive deadlines
      • Ability to work in an iterative environment, across teams and synthesize feedback from multiple teams/owners
      • Expert Knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, and other image optimizing applications
      • Bachelor’s degree in design or equivalent professional experience
        
        Pixel-perfect attention to design detail

      Preferred Qualifications
      

      • Deep understanding of typography for the web. Experience with typesetting in a variety of languages is a plus.
      • Expert level photo retouching skills
      • Ability to work independently to troubleshoot technical and process related issues.
      • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to gracefully defend your design decisions to executive management
      • Illustration experience
      • Motion graphics and / or relevant animation experience
      • Knowledge of video or photo shoot details and production timelines desired
      • On-set photo shoot art direction is a plus

      Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Vet. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with all applicable local, state, and federal laws.