Director - Advertising Media - Amazon - Meguro

Job description
Amazon’s advertising design and user experience team is seeking a talented and passionate interactive art director to create innovative, visually stunning and effective advertising experiences that drive business performance for global brands spanning Amazon’s web properties and mobile platforms in Japan. The ideal candidate will combine creative inspiration with the ability to create functional, user-centered advertising experiences and lead our advertising design program in Japan.


As part of Amazon’s global advertising design and user experience team, your primary focus will be to design innovative interactive experiences for digital advertising campaigns. You will also work closely with our sales and marketing teams to bring ideas to life to help drive new business. Prior experience in an agency or media environment selling to global brands is highly desired.

If you are passionate about creating customer-focused advertising experiences and collaborating with a global team of passionate designers and account executives, we want to talk to you.

Specific Responsibilities
Design cutting-edge advertising experiences for the world’s leading advertisers
Analyze marketing challenges and create on-brand design solutions that meet measurable business goals and requirements
Create simple, elegant customer-centric designs by integrating marketing objectives, target audience, creative assets and Amazon design patterns into intuitive solutions
Analyze post-campaign metrics to set best practices and optimize advertising campaigns for brand awareness as well as conversion metrics
Partner with sales teams by bringing big ideas to life through ideation and creation of high fidelity designs for sales presentations
Support marketing and sales teams with design and execution of marketing collateral and materials
· Work directly with account management, account directors, project manager and technical leads on assigned projects
Develop and contribute to detailed cross-platform interaction specifications and design patterns
Present design work to clients, partner agencies, the user experience team and sales executives for review and feedback
Review third-party creative and collaborate with our global ad policy team to ensure that agency supplied creative meets Amazon’s customer experience bar
Staff, manage and mentor design staff and designers across the organization

Basic Qualifications
Self-starter who is a customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, and enthusiastic team player
Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

Experience setting art direction, coordinating and reviewing the work of the design team and other clients and internal stakeholders to ensure the highest quality and unity of visual style
Strong project management skills and team-oriented with the ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines
An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating strong art direction, visual design skills and experience creating great interactive advertising experiences is a requirement for application
Exceptional attention to detail
Ability to work with highly technical teams and handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
Excellent presentation skills
Excellent working knowledge of Flash, Photoshop and the full Adobe Creative Suite
Working knowledge of Actionscript 2 and 3 and strengths with HMTL5, CSS3 and Javascript
Business level of English and Japanese
Preferred Qualifications
Minimum of 7 years experience as an interactive designer, preferably with 3+ years in an interactive agency environment
Bachelor degree in design or equivalent professional experience required, Masters degree preferred

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