Visual Designer, Seller External Relations
Santa Monica, CA - USA
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Job Summary
At Amazon we strive to be Earths 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 Amazons homepage social media product detail pages email and various marketing channels.
The ideal candidate must have experience working in an iterative and collaborative process and professionally accept feedback and improve on addition to strong design skills a candidate must have strong organizational skills web expertise typographic skills and acute attention to detail.
You should be comfortable engaging entry-level through executive stakeholders and working with many different types of creative professionals and creative outputs. Because the work is so varied and fast-paced the person in this role should possess excellent communication and collaboration skills. You will partner closely with a variety of peers and stakeholders such as customer research brand strategy content strategy creative production and site merchandising to achieve key strategic goals.
Key job responsibilities
Create visual designs that elevate Amazons partnership with small businesses across multiple online and offline channels
Understand and respond to performance data (metric tests usability studies) to steer the direction of your creative
Understand user experience best practices for web and mobile interactions
Use current and future marketing channels to inform and delight our customers
Present and defend visual design solutions to leadership and 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 Amazons partnership with small businesses in their categories
Leverage evolving AI tools to improve creative processes and development
A day in the life
On any given day your schedule may involve tasks such as: creating or updating style guides creating visual direction for campaigns and events driving leadership approval of visual direction supporting design production for campaigns helping maintain our high creative bar for small business empowerment and support providing visual art direction to partner teams.
About the team
Our mission is to drive small business success by connecting our audiences with small businesses. We do this by meeting our customers where they are at with impactful storytelling and selection that inspires and delights. Our team has a wide range of personalities and backgrounds with expertise across product management program management product marketing advertising creative and site marketing. Our team culture is built on service and obsession with our customer as well as a strong emphasis on collaboration experimentation and learning.
- Have an online portfolio demonstrating strong visual design skills and advertising experience across a range of media and platforms along with work that reflects your design process
- 5 years of project/resource management working with an in-house creative agency or external agency experience
- Experience managing multiple projects prioritizing planning and managing time
- Experience using content management systems and content tools
- Knowledge of Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Figma and other applications to develop creative
- Experience working in a collaborative team environment to deliver high-quality design solutions
- Pixel-perfect attention to design detail
- Work in an iterative environment across teams and synthesize feedback from multiple stakeholders
- Passionate about creating innovative elegant customer-focused collaterals and how to implement them to create dynamic marketing solutions
- Understanding of information architecture usability accessibility UI and UX design
- 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 leadership
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.
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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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 San Diego - 120500.00 - 163000.00 USD annually
USA CA Santa Monica - 120500.00 - 163000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 120500.00 - 163000.00 USD annually
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