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Sr. Art Director
Amazon
Santa Monica, CA, United States
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DESCRIPTION
Amazon Product Imaging builds the world’s best online shopping experience through photography, video, graphic design, and usability design enabling millions of customers to make more informed purchasing decisions. Imaging at Amazon is a large and fast-growing network of teams located throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, focusing on fashion and product photography, photo retouching, graphic design, video and CGI production, automated image acquisition, and image support services. We are continually innovating and setting new industry standards for showcasing 10s of millions of products across multiple global marketplaces. We are obsessed with innovating on behalf of our customers, and continually push beyond the boundaries of traditional e-commerce photography and videography.
Amazon is looking for an experienced Art Director for a high-volume commercial studio in the greater Los Angeles area (Vernon, CA.) producing world-class imagery for a wide selection of products. We need a highly motivated, self-directed, enthusiastic person with a keen sense of style, loves to make things beautiful for the camera and a sharp mind who works well under pressure and can thrive in an atmosphere of rapid development. This candidate would be art directing the environmental still life photography of home focused products. He/she must be comfortable working within existing style guide conventions, and be willing to work collaboratively, but also have a strong individual sense of aesthetics and be able to bring tasteful, stylish ideas to the table.
Successful candidates will provide a strong portfolio, demonstrate excellent art direction and visual design skills. They must also be able to effectively manage multiple tasks and/or projects at once, without sacrificing quality.
• Collaborate with Creative teams as well as usability, development, and business teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, on-brand graphic solutions to build a superior customer experience.
• Produce sketches, graphics, templates, layouts, themes, tear sheets, and visual standards for merchandising or promotion throughout the retail web process.
• Provide, design and manage documentation, style guides, and specifications
• Assist Creative Director with design direction for photo shoots.
• Assist Creative Director with image selection and editing process.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on seasonal concepts and special projects
• Proactively manage time and deadlines.
Please submit URL to your online portfolio.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
-Basic qualifications
• At least 4 years experience in Photo Art Direction. High-end retail websites preferred.
• Experience in fashion or home retail, preferably online.
• Design degree preferred, 4-year college degree required.
-Excellent communication skills, an active listener, able to convey complex issues succinctly and with the correct priority.
• Ability to influence people and gain results outside of a direct reporting line situation
• Experience with building innovative processes from the ground up and executing large scale team projects.
• Ability to translate a business vision into a repeatable creative process, building collaboration and consensus between business units.
• Proactive problem solving, both technically and creatively, with constant attention to process improvement.
• Calm under pressure, can excel and thrive in a high volume studio environment.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Mastery of the principals of design, color theory, and graphics file creation optimized for the web.
• Strong communication skills.
• Approach design solutions with knowledge of style trends and customer expectations.
• Knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Office is a big plus.