Director Creative Amazon UK London

Job Description:
The Amazon advertising design and user experience team is seeking a talented and passionate creative director to create innovative, visually stunning and effective advertising experiences that tell stories and drive business performance for the world’s leading brands across Europe. The ideal candidate will combine creative inspiration with the ability to create functional, user-centered advertising concepts that connect with Amazon customers across all channels.

As part of Amazon’s Customer Success Team, your primary focus will be to create innovative ideas, set creative direction and lead design for innovative experiences for interactive advertising campaigns spanning within and even beyond our platforms. You will work closely with our sales teams to bring ideas to life to drive new business. Prior experience in an agency or media environment selling to global brands is mandatory.

If you are passionate about creating customer-focused experiences and collaborating with a PAN EU team of passionate designers and account executives, we want to talk to you.

Specific Responsibilities

Design cutting-edge advertising experiences for the world’s leading advertisers shaped for Amazon audiences

Build a network of influential cross divisional collaborators to realize ambitious creative possibilities incorporating the full Amazon suite of consumer services (One Amazon).

Engage in brand strategy consultative discussions with senior marketer and agency leaders to surface creative scenarios that advance brand objectives

Create on-brand design solutions that meet measurable business goals and requirements

Partner with sales teams by bringing big ideas to life through ideation and creation of high fidelity concepts for sales presentations

Present your cutting edge solutions directly to clients, partner agencies and decision makers

Create user-centered concepts by integrating marketing objectives, target audience, creative assets and Amazon design patterns into intuitive solutions

Develop and contribute to detailed cross-platform rich media specifications

Raise bar on creative skills recruitment & skills development and mentor designers across the organization

Mobilize non-standard innovation practices - including co-creation with creative agencies and production houses

Interpret the appropriate mechanisms and process for custom to scale creative offerings

Pioneer the usage of Amazons unique data insights to better inform creative excellence

Basic Qualifications

Desire to create end to end concepts for market and multi national brand solutions on the most customer centric platform

Excellent presentation skills and interactive story telling ability

Art direction experience and designer oversight with attention for detail and superb user engagement

Self-starter who is a customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, and enthusiastic team player

Experience setting creative direction, coordinating and reviewing the work of the design team and other clients and internal stakeholders to ensure highest quality and unity of visual style

Team-oriented with the ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines

An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating strong creative direction, visual design skills and experience creating great interactive advertising experiences is a requirement for application

Strong people manager with a proven ability to hire, develop and grow world class design teams

Excellent working knowledge of Photoshop and the full Adobe Creative Suite

Preferred Qualifications

Proven experience as a creative leader, preferably with demonstrable experience gained in an interactive agency environment

Bachelor degree in design or equivalent professional experience required, Masters degree preferred

Motion Design skills is a plus

Proven experience as a leader for moving image production & conceptualization

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