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Senior Retail Art Director
Amazon
Seattle, WA, United States
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Senior Retail Art Director, Amazon Go
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Go is a new kind of store with no lines and no checkout—you just grab and go! Customers simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take what they want from our selection of fresh, delicious meals and grocery essentials, and go!
Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by our Just Walk Out Technology, which automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. When you’re done shopping, you can just leave the store. Shortly after, we’ll charge your Amazon account and send you a receipt. Check it out at http://amazon.com/go. Designed and custom-built by Amazonians, our Just Walk Out Technology uses a variety of technologies including computer vision, sensor fusion, and advanced machine learning. Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earth’s’ most customer centric company and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in computer vision, machine learning, distributed systems and hardware design.
The Role:
You are a hands-on ACD/Senior Art Director who has proven your ability to motivate those around you with your vision and dedication to excellence. You have successfully demonstrated taking business goals and turning them into inspiring world-class designs. You are a fearless design leader – someone who can inspire and influence creatives across multiple disciplines. You're driven to tell brand stories that connect with customers across a variety of industries and take delight in building new physical retail experiences. You also know how to get things done, and done well. You are both imaginative and pragmatic. You have an inventor’s spirit, a beautifully-tuned eye, demonstrated proficiency in brand design, and proven experience moving projects from concept to successful execution.
You will be part of a lean, nimble team that creates and executes designs that span a variety of traditional graphic design touchpoints, helping to create experiences that are new to the world. You’ll work with a highly capable team of art directors, UX designers, design technologists, and engineers to invent and iterate on experiences that start and end with the customer. You’re genuinely passionate about the bigger picture, driven to guide your ideas across a variety of campaigns that cross disciplines and channels. Partnering with the Creative Director, you’ll have the ability to question briefs, lead the thinking across multiple stakeholder meetings and have a real thirst for bringing ideas to life.
• You are sensitive to the way a brand unfolds across design mediums, including retail marketing communication, in-store graphics, packaging, and digital media.
• You are scrappy, agile, and full of initiative. You regularly push your comfort zone to stretch and improve yourself and the work.
• You are highly collaborative, with a proven track record for working within a diverse team to bring its ideas to life.
• You are excited by working with others who may have different experiences and perspectives. You believe that your best work happens when it’s richly influenced by the smart people around you.
• You are passionate about helping to define and develop new experiences that will change customer’s lives. The idea of Amazon Go excites you.
Key Responsibilities
• Concept and style guide development for Amazon Go brand materials, including include print materials, in-store communication, signage, and packaging
• Participate in projects from initial concept design, to final production, and guidelines documentation
• Create concepts, sketches, graphics, and high-fidelity executions in support of store design, packaging, brand, and marketing campaigns
• Create new style conventions that unify the brand with a solid creative vision across all mediums
• Present and defend your own work and that of your team to peers, stakeholders, and senior executives
• Effectively and proactively manage deliverables and deadlines for you and your team with transparency
• Exhibit composure in critical situations and communicate clearly with team members, peers, and stakeholders
• Foster a design culture that enables world-class creative work and talent development
• Understand and respond to promotion performance data (metric tests, usability studies), and steer the direction of future creative designs
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating visual branding, environmental design, marketing, and great user-centered design solutions
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in design/retail/advertising/marketing
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to gracefully defend your design decisions to executive management
• Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• Work on multiple projects with varying deadlines
• Ability to think spatially, understanding how a brand is consistently expressed and maintained in a physical environment, over time.
• An expert understanding of the trends in retail and food brands. Has a passion for advertising/marketing, keeps pace with it, and loves talking about it and champion smart brands
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate will have experience with retail brand development, including identity development, packaging design, and in-store communication materials design, plus:
• A passion for food and experience designing for food brands
• Photography art direction experience
• A background on hands-on visual display and visual merchandising
• A natural curiosity about the world, design, and creating great retail experiences for customers