Job Opening for Visual Designer, Selling Partner Communities and Empowerment in Amazon.com Services LLC (Seattle, WA)

Job summary
Small Business Empowerment (SBE) helps drive the success of small businesses (including sellers, vendors, developers, authors, and delivery service providers) and underserved business populations (including minority-, women-, and veteran owned businesses). The SBE marketing team is seeking looking for an exceptional Visual Designer to help bring the small business look and feel to life across the world. In this role, you will be creating a variety of digital and print assets used to engage and drive awareness of the small businesses that sell on Amazon.com.

At Amazon, we strive to be Earth’s most customer-centric company. We work every day to surprise and delight our customers through smart and purposeful design. Your work should not only reflect that ideal, but raise the bar to create a world-class experience. Your work will be seen by millions of people each day across Amazon’s homepage, social media, product detail pages, email, and mobile marketing channels.

The ideal candidate must have experience working in an iterative and collaborative process and professionally accept feedback and improve on it. In addition to strong design skills, a candidate must have strong organizational skills, web expertise, typographic skills, and acute attention to detail.

You should be comfortable engaging entry-level through executive stakeholders and working with many different types of creative professionals and creative outputs. Because the work is so varied, and fast-paced, the person in this role should possess excellent communication and collaboration skills. You will partner closely with a variety of peers and stakeholders such as customer research, brand strategy, content strategy, creative producer, and site merchandising to achieve key strategic goals.

Key job responsibilities

Create visual designs that elevate Amazon’s partnership with small businesses across multiple online and offline channels
Understand and respond to performance data (metric tests, usability studies), to steer the direction of your creative
Understand user experience best practices for web and mobile interactions
Use current and future marketing channels to inform and delight our customers
Present and defend visual design solutions to leadership and business partners
Collaborate with the Amazon Design Community at large to ensure consistent brand use across multiple marketing channels
Grow team knowledge of best design practices and trends in web and graphic design
Work with various categories to refresh/improve Amazon’s partnership with small businesses in their categories

A day in the life
On any given day, your schedule may involve tasks such as: creating or updating style guides, creating visual direction for campaigns and events, driving leadership approval of visual direction, supporting design production for campaigns, helping maintain our high creative bar for small business empowerment, and support providing visual art direction to partner teams.

About the team
Our mission is to drive small business success by connecting customers to small businesses. We do this by meeting our customers where they are at with impactful storytelling and selection that inspires and delights. Our team has a wide range of personalities and backgrounds, with expertise across product management, program management, product marketing, advertising, creative, and site marketing. Our team culture is built on service and obsession with our customer as well as a strong emphasis on collaboration, experimentation, and learning.

Pixel-perfect attention to design detail
Work in an iterative environment, across teams and synthesize feedback from multiple stakeholders
Passionate about creating innovative, elegant, customer-focused collaterals and how to implement them to create dynamic marketing solutions
Ability to work within, and collaborate on, design systems
Understanding of information architecture, usability, accessibility, UI and UX design
Ability to work independently to troubleshoot technical and process-related issues.
Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to gracefully defend your design decisions to leadership

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.