Art Director, Digital Studios

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Description

About amazon.com: Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon.com continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.

About the role: The ideal candidate must have a solid professional background directing the creation of best-of-class still and motion content. This role requires a keen eye for style, visual composition, and attention to detail, as well as an understanding of trends, customer needs, and technical execution with 3D artists. The Art Director must be comfortable working within existing style guide conventions, but also possess a strong individual sense of aesthetics and be able to bring customer-focused and aspirational ideas to the table.

Candidates must provide a strong portfolio which demonstrates brand and customer understanding and excellent art direction and visual design skills. They must also be able to effectively manage multiple tasks and projects at once, without sacrificing quality. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, self-directed and able to thrive in an atmosphere of ambiguity and rapid development, while also fostering an environment of multidisciplinary collaboration, innovation and creative problem-solving.

Key job responsibilities

• Present design solutions to business partners for concept and layout approval.
• Plan, concept and execute elevated image and video content.
• Filter creative direction from the Creative Director or Senior Art Director to the on-set teams, creating inspirational, contemporary content.
• Building layouts and clear creative briefs for the on-set or offline photo/video team(s) to produce.
• Approving imagery on set and via remote approval.
• Direct and motivate creative teams. Maintain a positive and constructive work environment.
• Always have the customer in mind, utilizing customer insights to build creative treatments that support an inspirational shopping experience.
• Participating in the creation, maintenance and updating of global imaging and video style guides.
• Recommending creative resourcing solutions and overseeing outsourced design and production.
• Working with the Production team to schedule the appropriate talent for assignments.
  
  

About The Team

About the team: Amazon Imaging is building one of the world's best online shopping experience through photography, video, 3D, 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. Amazon is continually innovating and setting new industry standards for showcasing tens of millions of products across multiple global marketplaces. Amazon is obsessed with innovating on behalf of its customers, and continually push beyond the boundaries of traditional e-commerce photography and videography.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bangalore, KA, IND

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of design experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• Experience working with agile development teams (agile/scrum/kanban)
• Experience in Adobe Creative Suit applications, with high proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Acrobat using macOS
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with e-commerce, search, social, and other major application types and their UX patterns
• Experience creating services and applications with multiple user touch points on different platforms and devices