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Amazon Visual Designer, Amazon North America Stores in New York City, New York
Description
Are you obsessed with building world-class shopping experiences that delight customers? Do you want to innovate on the end-to-end shopping experience for fashion products, from front-end to supply chain and everything in between? Do you want to be a part of initiatives that will have a significant impact on Amazon’s customer experience and bottom line?
We are looking for a talented visual designer who wants to be a key contributor to the launch of an exciting new shopping experience. In this role, you will generate industry-leading brand and design experiences to drive traffic, awareness, and engagement.
The ideal candidate has a strong visual design background with a passion for and knowledge of contemporary fashion retail, along with the proven ability to motivate through vision and a desire to inspire and collaborate with a passionate team. As a visual designer, you possess strong organizational skills, web expertise, intrinsic design ability, typographic skills, and acute attention to detail. You will play a significant role in engaging customers and creating a best-in-class customer experience via digital store design and digital marketing initiatives.
Key job responsibilities
• Work from creative briefs alongside key stakeholders to develop executions for digital marketing activities.
• Create best-in-class layouts and visuals that support and reinforce business objectives while partnering with business/marketing teams to ensure that designs meet brand and business needs.
• Identify opportunities to incorporate emerging design trends and digital innovations into creative and marketing strategies.
• Present concepts and produced work to stakeholders and internal customers, including senior management.
• Quickly turn around detailed comps/mockups in an iterative environment.
• Understand and respond to performance data (metric tests, usability studies), and steer the direction of future creative designs.
• Work cross-team, lead the design process, and synthesize feedback and input from stakeholders.
Basic qualifications:
• 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.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in 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.
Preferred qualifications:
• Excellent concept and creative development skills.
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Design experience for a contemporary fashion or brand-driven retail business.
• 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 and a working knowledge of the printing process.
• Motion and/or animation experience.
• Experience in designing motion graphics or video editing.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
New York City, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
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.
3+ years of relevant experience in 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.
Preferred Qualifications
Excellent concept and creative development skills.
Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
Design experience for a contemporary fashion or brand-driven retail business.
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 and a working knowledge of the printing process.
Motion and/or animation experience.
Experience in designing motion graphics or video editing.
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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $69,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $148,500/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.