The Amazon Fashion team is looking for an exceptional Art Director with strong visual art direction skills and design sensibility – one who loves thinking conceptually, creating original solutions, and collaborating with a passionate team and is eager to work hard, have fun, and make history. The successful candidate will have a proven ability to motivate through vision and dedication to excellence, demonstrated success translating business goals to an inspiring creative direction and world-class design and, while always starting with the customer, an ability to think strategically and critically in order to create an inspiring shopping experience.
Evolve our creative positioning (graphic look and feel, voice, photography requirements, etc.) that will extend both to the website and to offline marketing activities. Develop this into a visual brand framework that will serve as guidance for all future creative initiatives.
Provide Photo Art Direction on set; bringing experience with product photo shoots and how to effectively direct a crew from start to finish. Direct the photography sessions including lighting, attitude, mood, styling, etc.
Create world-class, beautiful layouts and visuals that support and reinforce this vision and our business objectives; partner with the Amazon Fashion business/marketing teams to ensure that designs meet brand and business objectives.
Work from creative briefs to translate merchandising and marketing strategies to creative execution.
Follow market trends and apply a keen understanding of the apparel marketplace to make decisions that will maximize the effectiveness of creative; keep abreast of trends and directions in promotion and creative that will keep Amazon Fashion on the leading edge.
Act as the internal champion and owner of the Amazon Fashion Brand.
Manage creative for on-site, e-mail, online advertising, and occasionally print.
Understand and respond to promotion performance data, steering the strategy of future creative directions.
Manage Amazon Fashion’s graphics creation, securing and managing external resources (e.g. freelancers, contractors and vendors) when necessary.
Contribute to the overall Softlines visual experience and ui functionality-responsive design across various platform and devices (desktop, tablet and mobile etc).
Manage and lead creative reviews and presentations, as well as seasonal planning and special initiatives/projects meetings. Successfully able to present to senior management (VP-level and above), influencing business and creative decisions and direction.
Establish and maintain a business rhythm by conducting reviews and meetings on a regular basis.
Basic Qualifications
7-10 years of relevant professional experience
Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts/Graphic Design/Visual Communications/Advertising or commensurate experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Background in fashion marketing design or fashion retail desired.
Knowledge of information architecture, usability, and UI Design strongly desired.
Knowledge and experience with rich media advertisement creation strongly desired.
A remarkable portfolio that demonstrates your ability to turn ideas into a strong creative vision.
A proven ability to work cross-team and synthesize feedback and input from merchants, marketers, copywriters, and product teams.
Unwavering attention to detail and an acute awareness that everything counts.
Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business and user interaction priorities.
Demonstrated business acumen and customer-centricity.
Expert understanding of the web production process; familiarity with post-production retouching and at least a working knowledge of the printing process.
Desire and ability to work in a fast-paced online environment.
Highly developed written/verbal communication skills and collaborative skills.
Proficiency with HTML, CSS and JavaScript desired.
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