North America Stores Marketing is on a mission to make Amazon the most-loved shopping destination for customers. We aspire to meet customers where they are with a steady drumbeat of inspiring, relevant, and automated content that builds upon recent shopping missions while also introducing them to new and timely ideas. We do this by combining technology, science, innovation, marketing, and creativity to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside cutting-edge tools for marketers. We are looking for creative, customer-obsessed, curious, and highly entrepreneurial leaders to join our team.

The ideal candidate has a strong visual design background, is self-directed, detail-oriented, comfortable with ambiguity, and has a deep interest in Generative AI technology. As a Design Director, you have strong organizational skills, web and retail expertise, intrinsic design ability, and typographic skills. You will own the design process from start to finish and play a significant role in creating a best-in-class customer experience via digital marketing initiatives. This role provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact by collaborating closely with talented marketing, business, and tech leaders to unlock value, selection, and convenience for our customers.

Key job responsibilities
• Work from creative briefs alongside key stakeholders to develop executions for digital marketing activities

• Partner with Art Directors and Creative Directors to develop event branding and create comprehensive style guides for marketing events and campaigns

• Own the design process, and synthesize feedback and input from stakeholders

• Lead visual and production designers in the completion of projects, providing clear direction and constructive feedback

• Present concepts and final work to stakeholders and internal customers, including senior management, in person and via video/phone

• Work cross-functionally to ensure alignment and consistency across different creative work streams

• A conduit between creative and Generative AI and 3D rendering technologies teams–collaborating closely with internal tech teams to help develop and refine Generative AI and 3D rendering tools tailored to NASC’s creative needs

• Identify opportunities to incorporate emerging design trends and digital innovations into creative and marketing strategies

• Work closely with operations teams to scope projects and forecast resourcing needs to build production capacity, communicating needs and trade-offs when appropriate