Amazon Ads is looking for a talented, customer-focused lead visual designer to join the Amazon Ads marketing Creative Studio design team. The ideal candidate will have the ability to deliver designs based on existing brand guidelines in a fast-paced environment. This position requires a strong understanding of visual and motion design, knowing best practices including layout, hierarchy, typography, and illustration. The ability to manage the production of multiple projects, communicate efficiently with key stakeholders, and work cross-functionally is essential.

Key job responsibilities
* Designing strongly branded promotional graphics
* Developing clean and effective templates and production outputs such as elevated presentations, and digital channels (website, email, social), with potential motion graphics implementation across all
* Fulfilling multiple project requests while simultaneously meeting tight deadlines
* Managing the creative request queue including request intake and resource assignment
* Owning the Creative Studio “designer best practices” guidance, which centralizes project file structures, file naming, resources, and SOPs for on-boarding new team members
* Managing the design request queue to traffic requests and properly allocate resources across our internal designers and external agencies, while being able to vocalize if requests are misguided or uninformed (and escalating those that do not adhere to brand guidelines, fall within internal or external capabilities, or provide sufficient time and/or budget)
* Effectively communicating and ensuring the visual design represents the desired message within brand guidelines
* Providing design feedback and approvals on certain projects as proxy for our Art Director and/or Creative Director

Basic Qualifications:
* Excellent working knowledge of Figma, PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe After Effects, and Premiere
* Strong knowledge of Project Management tools, such as Workfront
* Minimum 5-8 years of relevant experience with visual design and digital environments
* Strong time management skills and ability to be self-directed as needed, while following the SOPs
* Strong portfolio with engaging, diverse designs in the digital space, demonstrating a passion for motion and visual design and attention to detail
* BA/BS in Visual Arts/Design or equivalent

Preferred qualifications:
* Motivated, solution oriented, organized, and accountable for their work and that of the team
* Ability to animate within PowerPoint directly
* Knowledge of Adobe Workfront



A day in the life
* You ensure overall alignment to scope and milestones, communication trade-offs, and proactively plans to maintain the priority of the brand and/or creative strategy throughout the design process
* You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, drawing upon your expertise and design process to create structure and proactively plan ahead, peek around corners, and can see the next step (even when it doesn’t exist yet)
* You are skilled in determining complex tradeoffs to prioritize resources and scalable solutions
* You identify inefficiencies and remove bottlenecks, and are able to find a path forward in difficult situations
* You define and independently manage escalation paths at critical milestones, and anticipate and mitigate potential blockers across all phases of a project
* You introduce, develop, and ensure best design practices and processes, and communicate quality expectations organizationally
* You have an eagerness to collaborate across disciplines with team members at all levels