DESCRIPTION
Amazon is looking for an enthusiastic Visual Designer to join the Workplace Health and Safety Team. We’re not an average company and this is definitely not your average position. We’ll give you the opportunity to make a difference to our safety engagement experience across the globe. At Amazon, we obsess about the safety of our people and partners — they are our customer. Our people trust us because we provide a safe work environment. Our unwavering commitment to deliver the best technologies and practices meets and exceeds expectations. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you’d like to help us educate and empower the people who care for and deliver on our customer promise – we need you.
We are seeking a Visual Designer who will be responsible for operating visual design software and tools in order to produce visual displays and collateral. You will produce graphic artwork that is used in physical in-building installations, publications, signs, charts, posters, digital display screens and other mediums.
Key job responsibilities
– You are a team player who works collaboratively with the creative director, visual designers, and other team members to understand the brief and target audience, identify the most effective solutions, and deliver results on time.
– You understand the value of a brand and carefully follow standards and guidelines to ensure your work stays true to the brand identity.
– You are proficient with design softwares, and stay up-to-date on the latest creative tools and trends.
– You are highly experienced with design systems and visual architecture: you use the right grid system to inform your layouts. You design with accessibility and usability in mind. You are an expert with type ramp and styling, and have the knowledge to design for various displays.
– You are a design perfectionist. Your visual elements are always aligned, your margins are set, your color values are accurate, and your font style is consistent.
– You have designed physical branded experiences, such as events, trade show booths, or custom displays, and overlooked the process from conception through installation and tear-down.
– You have worked with production vendors and have strong knowledge in production specs and how to correctly set and export creative files for print and digital output.
– You have excellent time-management skills and are able to prioritize your tasks to remain on track and deliver on time.
About the team
Amazon’s Workplace Health and Safety team leads cross-functional projects that require collaboration and partnership with Amazon businesses, geographical units and technical subject matter experts (SMEs). We partner with teams to inspire bold thinking, iterate on ideas, and deliver the solutions that will make Amazon the safest workplace on earth. Through our work, we engage with operations, tech, engineering and other potential partners as a means to create pathways for future partnerships to incubate tomorrow’s solutions today. We do this through strategic communication using ‘pull’ marketing methodology based on the stories we need to be sharing.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 4+ years of design experience
– Have an available online portfolio
– Experience working with a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
– Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
– Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines
– Experience designing branded physical experiences such as event installations, exhibition booths, custom displays, wall murals, large banners and way-finding signs.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Experience working across teams and synthesizing feedback from multiple teams/owners
– Knowledge of user-centered design methodologies, usability principles, web-based information architecture and design
– Experience in prototyping