Design Director, Amazon Fashion And Fitness - Sports And Outdoors Focused

Amazon Fashion and Fitness is seeking a talented, experienced, and self-directed Design Director (DD) to play a key role our in-house visual design team that will transform the experience of customers shopping for Sports and Outdoors (Fitness) on Amazon.
The ideal candidate has a strong visual design background with a passion for and knowledge of contemporary fashion retail. With the proven ability to motivate through vision and a desire to inspire. The DD should have strong organizational skills, web expertise, intrinsic design ability, typographic skills, and acute attention to detail. You will work closely with art directors, creative directors, producers, and marketing managers to define design standards and program identities that guide customer shopping journeys.
In this role, you will lead the overall visual expression of our fashion & fitness marketing programs-from design style guide, wire-framing of storefronts and delivery of all marketing assets, supporting across all owned and operated and paid channels -for all of Amazon Fashion & Fitness (Focused on the Fitness side of the business) editorial and program marketing. This is a hands-on design role, that will bring our creative shoot to life across all marketing touch-points.
The successful candidate will have experience in fashion, fitness or e-commerce and proven success both in a team environment as well as individual contributors, and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment. They will have a strong portfolio with a high standard for visual design and a deep skill in typography. A love of working at pace, turning creative imagery into high-quality storefronts and layouts, while managing complex planning schedules, and be flexible to changing priorities. This is a hands-on role that will be expected to raise the design bar and finds ways to innovate in order to tell rich stories.
Key job responsibilities
Lead strategic and complex design projects that present multidisciplinary challenges and span multiple teams
Develop creative design solutions to ensure work achieves project goals, meets the highest quality standards, and is delivered on time
Identify opportunities to incorporate emerging trends and digital innovations into creative and marketing strategies
Present concepts and executed work to internal customers and stakeholders, including senior management
Maintain the highest design standards and inform the work with data wherever possible.
Lead design projects across all marketing touch-points: Amazon Fashion digital storefront, emails, print, social content as required
Work from creative briefs to translate marketing strategies to creative execution
Produce graphic standards, templates, layouts, guidelines and design graphics
Collaborate with internal Design and Marketing counterparts in bringing to life seasonal campaigns, which fuse elevated storytelling with best-in-class digital commerce
Lead, develop, and execute smart, unexpected creative solutions as well as maintain design identity aesthetics per brand
Seek ways to enhance e-commerce experience
Proactively use design, UX and prototyping to communicate new inspiring brand experiences
Exceptionally skilled at image curation, visual storytelling, typography, layout, form and color
Attend meetings and track next steps/follow-ups for projects
Work closely with, communicate and present creative with all key stakeholders and counterparts
About the team
The Amazon Fashion & Fitness Brand Creative team is responsible for creating breakthrough marketing strategies and content to reach and resonate with today's audience. We aspire to meet customers wherever they may be-on social media, on their phones and devices, across the site, in their inboxes-and provide easy ingresses to the site via beautiful, inclusive, inspiring, and innovative content. We believe in people-first storytelling, including highlighting real customers and communities and celebrating what they're wearing now. Our ultimate objective is to help customers feel like their best selves by making getting dressed that much easier. Each day feels a little bit different on this team, as we produce and promote content for an exciting array of brands, products, experiences, and features. In addition to highlighting new arrivals, rising-star brands, trending and most-loved product, we also accelerate the convenience of shopping for Fashion and Fitness by (1) make shopping fun and (2) tell stories we can be proud of.
We're a team of product marketers, brand marketers, marketing strategists, customer insights leaders, creative directors, art directors, producers, visual designers, copywriters, stylists, fashion/content editors, channel leads (tiktok, twitch, instagram, email, ads, etc.), and beyond, sitting primarily in NYC, Seattle, Santa Monica. Our team is filled with a wide range of personalities and backgrounds, including experts in video, influencer strategy, consumer behavior, large-scale 360-marketing campaigns, branding, merchandising, styling, and beyond who have come from backgrounds in retail, tech, print media, digital media, academia, and agency work. Above all else, our team culture is built around an environment of learning, experimentation, and inventing on behalf of the customer. Many of our team members have been in the org for 5-10+ years, and we pride ourselves on creating an organization where marketers and creatives can build careers.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA