Creative Director CGI, Devices Brand Studio

Were seeking an exceptional CGI Creative Director to join Amazons Devices Brand Studio and help shape the visual future of our entire product portfolio. This role sits at a unique intersection: youll be both a vision setter and refining the aesthetic direction of our CGI work and a hands-on artist executing the conceptual renders and key art that set the standard for our production teams. While youll create work directly a significant portion of your role will involve directing teams through providing highly specific feedback conducting working sessions with artists and guiding stakeholders through the creative process. Youll operate across the complete CGI pipeline from initial concepting through pre-production production and post-production. Unlike traditional CGI production roles youll approach every project from both a brand perspective and a customer perspective discovering how these viewpoints can more effectively reinforce and elevate each other. The environment is fast-paced and high-volume where rapid prototyping and iteration are essential.

Working directly with our internal and external teams youll help define and evolve Amazons distinctive CGI visual language across every customer touchpoint. Your work will span from early conceptual exploration to polished key art creating the foundational pieces that guide our teams as they bring our product stories to life. This is a deeply collaborative role in which youll partner with other Creative Directors and stakeholders across the organization to ensure visual consistency and innovation work closely with our lead CGI Creative Director to push technical and creative boundaries and collaborate with external vendor teams who execute the final production work. Your work will flow into internal creative playbooks design documentation and strategic presentations ultimately shaping the customer-facing work that defines how millions of people first experience Amazon Devices.


Key job responsibilities
- Partner with Creative Directors and other stakeholders to conceptualize and execute photorealistic product renderings on extremely fast turnaround timelines in a high-volume environment
- Prototype and rapidly iterate CGI concepts maintaining exceptional quality standards while moving at speed
- Execute on-the-spot creative changes and renderings for live keynote presentations at in-person launch events
- Leverage and share AI tools for image-making staying at the forefront of generative image and video technology
- Design compelling presentation decks that successfully articulate CGI concepts to both creative and non-creative stakeholders
- Iterate and version concepts fluidly as product designs and marketing strategies evolve
- Work directly with industrial designers to translate CAD files STP files CMF specifications and artwork documents into stunning visual executions
- Create foundational key art and conceptual renders that guide internal and external production teams
- Workshop new-to-world product lines with conceptual renderings that visualize products before they exist
- Bring visual storytelling expertise and photography principles (lighting composition camera) to every rendering
- Ensure consistency and excellence across diverse device categories while adapting to unique product requirements

About the team
The creative organization thrives on a singular bold purpose: to craft work that isnt just exceptional but world-classa benchmark for excellence. We are relentless in this pursuit especially when the odds are stacked against us.

Our foundation is a commitment to craft and a dedication to ensuring every piece of creative work embodies a consistent breathtaking aesthetic quality. We dont meet expectations; we exist to define them. Details arent just detailstheyre the difference between good and great.

We obsess over these nuances with passion and precision. While this pursuit is challenging at Amazon we remain relentless alongside our partners and collaborators in bringing an elevated sense of taste to every detail. We do this because we know that excellence demands courage resilience and an unrelenting commitment to vision.

Our mission is clear: to inspire our customers by revealing the magic love and thoughtful invention infused into every product signed Amazon Devices and Services.


- 8 years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience art directing motion designers illustrators writers and content creators
- Experience partnering with technical partners for design implementation

- Knowledge of marketing fundamentals and ability to implement them to create dynamic advertising solutions
- Knowledge of typographic and brand design principles

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Santa Monica - 141000.00 - 190700.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 155400.00 - 210300.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 141000.00 - 190700.00 USD annually