Art Director, Amazon Furusato
Job Description
Join Amazon Furusato, our innovative Hometown Tax marketplace (Furusato Nozei), to lead the creative vision and strategy. We are looking for a talented, innovative art director with exceptional creative skills and a relentless desire to delight customers across various marketing channels. This role's primary goal is to execute Amazon Furusato brand strategy, partnering with marketing teams.
The ideal candidate has the ability to translate creative briefs and concepts into customer-centric designs that elevate Amazon Furusato brand and drive its growth. You proactively identify creative opportunities to improve the customer experience, have excellent communication and presentation skills, and articulate strategic design choices.
Key job responsibilities
- Partner with marketing teams to build best-in-class customer experience from creative design, raising brand awareness.
- Obsessed with customers and support your designs using insights including quantitative data and site metrics, segmentation, and feedback
- Self-starter with proven ability to ideate the creative strategy for both digital and offline.
Requirements:
- English proficiency
- A creative portfolio demonstrating a conceptual thinking skillset, art direction and design.
- In-depth understanding of industry design tools (Ex. Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, InVision), and a basic understanding of UX design.
- Excellent presentation skills and interactive storytelling ability.
- Strong organization and collaboration skills.
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
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