Sr. Art Director, Brand Innovation Lab, Brand Innovation Lab MENA

DESCRIPTION

Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab is looking for a talented and passionate Conceptual Creative (Art Director) to create one-of-a-kind campaigns for a wide range of brands across our MENA region and for MENA based brands marketing in the UK and US. You’ll partner with art directors, copywriters, designers, solutions managers and producers to create first-class customer experiences both on and offline by innovating with the Amazon canvas (Prime Video, Alexa, Twitch etc). You’ll lead projects and own client relationships, focusing on creating work that benefits the end customer while pushing the creative envelope from brief to execution. This is a perm role.

From ideation through launch, you will be responsible for delivering ambitious insightful and data-driven concepts that translate needs and constraints into customer-focused brand campaign ideas and solutions. You will be equally strong at concept and execution, articulating end-to-end experiences, and turning that vision into high-quality experiences. This could include video content, user interface designs for voice and screen, interaction models, prototypes, and interactive advertising campaigns.

This role will use data and insights to create campaign strategy and concepts, develop designs and the look and feel for experiences, as well as templates for never-before-done brand campaigns and experiences that will solve customer problems, on and off Amazon platforms. Candidates should be able to deliver high-quality designs and stellar art direction for campaigns across different Amazon touch points. Candidates should have in-depth understanding of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Powerpoint, and Figma (or an interest to learn Figma). For this role, we’re looking for a conceptual art director who also has strong design skills and an understanding of UX design.

The Conceptual Creative (Art Director) candidate’s portfolio should feature highly creative, award wining, campaigns and ideas that solve costumers and advertisers problems through a variety of different media channels, including but not limited to video, social, digital activations, radio, and outdoor. You have strong conceptual, presentation, storytelling and time management skills, as well as digital media experience, insight-driven and strategical thinking and of course, an acute attention to detail.

Key job responsibilities
• Concept, design (art) and execute innovative ad campaigns and experiences for global brands.

• Partner with copywriters, designers, program managers, developers strategists and producers to create customer-focused solutions that deliver on advertiser objectives.

• Independently lead campaigns from brief to execution and collaborate with internal teams, clients and external agency partners.

• Obsessed with understanding customers and making work that delivers both innovation and results.

• Present ideas and concepts to clients, agencies and internally.

• Proven ability to ideate for film, print, digital, out-of-home, experiential and social.

• Ability to manage multiple projects at once within budget and deadlines.

• Be proactive in developing new products and ideas on behalf of the customer.

A day in the life
• Partnering with a variety of brands, media and creative agencies to work on innovative campaigns for Automotive, finance, energy and telecommunication.

• From designing brand experience from documentary films in Prime Video to Alexa branded experiences, you will always strive to create a never been done before ideas.

• Presenting a campaign to brand clients and their partners in creative and media agencies.

• Reviewing edits and work in progress with your partners, collect and respond to feedback in order to meet the highest creative standards.

• Work with your team on proactive projects and initiatives and bring them to life.

About the team
The Brand Innovation Lab team is the internal group within Amazon that creates one-of-a-kind campaigns and activations for global advertisers, like Cocacola, Visa, BMW, Microsoft, Adidas, Samsung, and Unilever. Using all of the different platforms within the Amazon canvas (AR/VR, Alexa, Twitch, Prime Video, Custom landing pages on Amazon.com, etc.), we create campaigns that reach millions of Amazon customers across our digital channels and out in the real-world.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 8+ years of driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team experience
– Bachelor’s degree

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Keynote
– Experience leading creative development of innovative creative from concept to delivery
– Experience presenting creative concepts effectively to senior executives
– Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines

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