Art Director, Elevated Shopping

Description

Elevated Shopping enhances the shopping experience through photography, video, graphic design, and usability design. With a global network of teams in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Elevated Shopping focuses on fashion and product photography, photo retouching, graphic design, video and CGI production, automated image acquisition, and image support services. We continuously innovate and set new industry standards for showcasing millions of products across multiple global marketplaces.



Key job responsibilities
- Spearhead concept development and creative direction for high-impact brand partnerships and strategic initiatives. Bridge communications between studio teams and senior leadership while partnering with global Program Managers and business leads to achieve key organizational objectives.
- Ability to lead and take ownership of a variety of projects to meet deadlines.
- Apply diverse creative skills to address both strategic and tactical challenges. Develop and execute innovative concepts across multiple platforms, including large-scale events, content creator sets, and production environments. Adapt quickly to project requirements, ensuring high-quality delivery from initial ideation to final implementation. Balance big-picture thinking with attention to detail in all creative endeavors.
- Leads creative concept development through visual research, mockups, and storytelling.
- Leads on-set art direction of photo and video shoots by collaborating with photographers, stylists, creative directors and other members of the creative team.
- Collaborates in a team environment and is respectful of the company culture.
- Can quickly respond and adapt to creative feedback and requests.
- Flexible to accommodate international timezone on occasion to meet business needs.
- Lead and participate in continuous improvement efforts.
- Drive teams to meet productivity expectations.

Basic Qualifications

- 2 years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience working with a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
- Experience in prototyping
- Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of user-centered design methodologies, usability principles, web-based information architecture and design
- Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
- Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices.
- Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences.

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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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.