Visual Designer, Amazon
IMDb Visual Brand Design
$106-184k
Office located in Santa Monica, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$106-184k
Office located in Santa Monica, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a passion for design and insists on quality in every deliverable
- They have experience in creating visually stunning and compelling art for use across multiple platforms, and inspire their collaborators to innovate and elevate all creative designed for IMDb
- They are self-directed and thrive in ambiguity. Designers on IMDb's Visual Brand Design team are obsessed with the details and love to dive deep at every step in the design process, from pre-production and research to full asset delivery
- 3+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience in visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides
- Demonstrated understanding of digital and social platforms as well as their use within marketing and design
- Exceptional design skills, including layout, typography, video, and motion design
- Data-driven and obsessed with the measurable impact of a campaign
- Strong written communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with a number of teams and departments
- Ability to thrive in an iterative environment partnering with others to synthesize feedback from multiple teams/owners
- Ability to multi-task on several large projects at once and meet timelines while maintaining a high design bar
- Excellent presentation skills and storytelling ability
- Strong project management skills, and commitment to quality control
- Excellent working experience and knowledge of the full Adobe Creative Suite
- Deep understanding of digital and new media
- Innate curiosity to learn new tools and applications related to creative outputs
Desirable
- Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
- Knowledge of and proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, and InDesign
- Dedication to craft from idea to execution
- A strong bias for action in a fast-paced, metric driven environment
- Self-motivated team player
- Agency experience, either in-house or on the client side
- Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business and user interaction priorities
- Adobe Creative Suite - specifically Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and InDesign
- A love of all things entertainment
What the job involves
- IMDb.com is looking for a talented Visual Designer to collaborate in the creation of best-in-class customer experiences with the IMDb Visual Brand Design team
- This role will work across multiple design initiatives throughout IMDb, working with consumer marketing and IMDb’s professional services
- This role will work to create and update brand identities and activations for our internal original video program and brand identities across IMDb
- In addition, this role will help create templates and standards that will be used throughout activations onsite, on-location, and third party platforms
- You will also have a role in developing IMDb's brand vision and assist in cross-functional design efforts
- You will jump between projects daily that touch multiple teams within IMDb. From designing key art for an original program, to building print-ready files for a live experience, to finalizing a suite of banner ads to promote a new feature on site, to finishing the day collaborating with your fellow designers on the future of visual design at IMDb
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
- Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
- 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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