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Creative Director
Amazon
Ontario Toronto, , Canada
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Creative Director (f/m)
Amazon Media Group is seeking a Creative Director to lead our Advertising Design and User Experience team in our Toronto office. This individual is responsible for generating original, innovative brand experiences for interactive advertising campaigns spanning our Amazon.com and works closely with our sales and marketing teams to bring ideas to life to help drive new business.
You will manage art director(s), designers, writers, and producers in the flawless execution of original branded experiences for Amazon’s wide array of Fortune 500 clients. You will forge strong relationships with key business partners in Sales and Account Management to define vertical priorities and goals for which you and your team will be accountable. You will work alongside the Executive Creative Director and/or Group Creative Director to set and enforce a high creative bar and design aesthetic that define the advertising experience for Amazon’s customers. Your team will create innovative, visually stunning, and effective advertising experiences that tell stories and drive business performance for the world’s best-known brands. You will represent Amazon Media Group design by evangelizing our capabilities and innovation directly with our top clients.
Our work atmosphere is fast-paced and results-driven, so strong interpersonal and time-management skills are a must. Additionally, at Amazon, analytics are ubiquitous, so a commitment to raising the bar using data and reporting is essential.
If you are passionate about creating customer-focused experiences, leading a team of passionate creatives, and forging strong partnerships with our account teams, we want to talk to you.
Specific Responsibilities
• Lead and develop a design team consisting of visual, interactive, and motion designers, copywriters, and producers who deliver industry-leading innovation to our advertising clients
• · Work with Design Techs in a “dotted-line” reporting structure
• Define vertical priorities, team goals, and design standards to build a durable, high-performance team
• Identify and drive key initiatives to achieve goals and develop mechanisms to measure and audit progress toward goals
• Forge strong partnerships with our Sales, Service, Product, and Design Tech teams, as well as Senior Leadership, to ensure flawless execution and strong cross-team collaboration.
• Partner with Sales teams by bringing big ideas to life through ideation and creation of high-fidelity designs
• Engage with advertisers and their creative agencies to understand customer needs, showcase AMG’s creative capabilities, and identify opportunities to drive innovation on behalf of our customers
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor degree in design or equivalent professional experience required
• Self-starter who is a customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, enthusiastic team player
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Experience setting art direction, coordinating, and reviewing the work of the design team and other clients and internal stakeholders to ensure highest quality and unity of visual style
• Strong project management skills, team-oriented individual with the ability to multitask and meet tight deadlines
• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating strong creative direction, visual design acumen, and experience creating great interactive advertising experiences is a requirement for application
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Ability to work with highly technical teams and handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent presentation skills
• Excellent working knowledge of Photoshop and the full Adobe Creative Suite
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience as a creative leader, preferably with 8 years in an interactive agency environment
• Working knowledge of HMTL5, CSS3, and Javascript
• Master’s degree preferred
Please note that occasional travel is required for this position.
Please provide a portfolio (attachment, link, website, etc.) and kindly write your application in English language.
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