Creative Director, Retail Experience, Device Brand Studio

As the Creative Director for Retail Experience you are passionate about the retail experience and expert in user experience (UX) design and brand principles. You help create the content strategy for how new products like Echo Fire TV Fire Tablets and Kindle come to life ensuring every touchpoint is intuitive engaging and customer-centric.

Working in a cross-functional team environment you are looked to as the expert for Amazon retail across the voice assistant and smart home categories. You understand the retail landscape demo and fixture technologies and translate creative direction to our technology framework while applying UX design methodologies to optimize customer interactions. You develop customer journey maps and design experiences that reduce friction and delight shoppers at every stage of their in-store discovery process.

This position will play a pivotal role in gathering requirements for all asset needs across channels and devising efficient strategies for the launch of content at scale for our demo devices digital screens and detail page experiences. Youll leverage UX best practicesincluding wireframing and iterative designto ensure our retail fixtures and demo experiences are accessible discoverable and conversion-optimized.

As the Creative Director for Retail Experience you are also responsible for overseeing the end-to-end content creation and upload for Amazons retail store and demo experiences. This role blends project management expertise with a deep understanding of brand architecture content strategy creative vision and our target audience to deliver innovative and impactful content. You design for retail environments and validate design decisions through customer feedback and behavioral data.

You strive to invent and simplify creating strategies and playbooks that the global retail teams can use to make their everyday jobs easier. Your North Star is creating engaging retail experiences that are quickly recognized by Amazon shoppers globally while staying true to our brand voice and delivering exceptional user experiences that convert browsers into buyers.

Key job responsibilities
Design and optimize on-device demo experiences and digital touchbar interactions that are intuitive and conversion-focused leveraging our user research and behavioral analytics

Be a strategic thought-leader collaborating with product marketing product management and design to determine messaging priorities incorporating UX best practices for information hierarchy and interaction patterns

Clarify project commitments and maintain accountability by leading stakeholder meetings ensuring UX requirements are prioritized

Oversee production of engaging print materials digital content and video assets applying UX content strategy principles

Develop comprehensive playbooks incorporating UX design standards accessibility guidelines and conversion optimization tactics

Stay updated on retail UX design trends interactive fixture technologies and customer experience innovation

Implement scalable processes maintaining high UX quality standards across channels

Champion the offline playbook incorporating UX research insights into continuous improvement

Design navigation flows for digital touchbars that reduce cognitive load and create clear paths to purchase

Proven track record of taking Ownership and Delivering Results

- 8 years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience art directing motion designers illustrators writers and content creators
- Experience partnering with technical partners for design implementation

- Knowledge of marketing fundamentals and ability to implement them to create dynamic advertising solutions
- Knowledge of typographic and brand design principles
- Clarify and drive project commitments as well as establish and maintain clear chains of accountability by leading and facilitating meetings with key stakeholders

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Santa Monica - 141000.00 - 190700.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 141000.00 - 190700.00 USD annually