What is an Art Director? They play an essential role in the
marketing, creative, communications, fashion and digital departments. They are responsible
for leading their team, developing creative guidelines and directing creative
work, including print collateral, websites, email campaigns, television and
radio advertising and many related tasks. Art Directors also must be great
leaders with the ability to maximize the talents of them teams. “It is
important that persons make ethical decisions in their personal lives, but the
practice of business ethics is of important concern to hospitality mangers”
(Hayes, David K. Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry, 1st
Edition. Pg. 159. Wiley, 02/2008.
Art Director Amazon Fashion
Job Description
Amazon Fashion is a one-stop destination including clothing,
shoes, jewelry and watches from iconic brands like Levi’s and Pendleton to
contemporary designers like Rebecca Minkoff and Tracy Reese. We offer customers
an unprecedented range of quality products.
Amazon Fashion is experiencing explosive growth and, as such, we're seeking
entrepreneurial professionals to help build the next iteration in fashion
ecommerce. These customer-obsessed, style-enthusiasts will have the opportunity
to accelerate Amazon’s growth in online fashion providing our millions of customer’s
access to top brands, products and insider content and creating the most
sought-after shopping experience in the industry.
The Amazon Fashion team is looking for an exceptional Art Director – one who
loves thinking conceptually, creating original solutions, and collaborating
with a passionate team and is eager to work hard, have fun, and make history.
The successful candidate will have a proven ability to motivate through vision
and dedication to excellence, demonstrated success translating business goals
to an inspiring creative direction and world-class design and, while always
starting with the customer, an ability to think strategically and critically in
order to create an inspiring shopping experience.
Responsibilities
- Evolve our creative positioning
(graphic look and feel, voice, photography requirements, etc.) that will
extend both to the website and to offline marketing activities. Develop
this into a visual brand framework that will serve as guidance for all
future creative initiatives.
- Create world-class, beautiful
layouts and visuals that support and reinforce this vision and our
business objectives; partner with the Amazon Fashion business/marketing
teams to ensure that designs meet brand and business objectives.
- Work from creative briefs to
translate merchandising and marketing strategies to creative execution.
- Follow market trends and apply a
keen understanding of the apparel marketplace to make decisions that will
maximize the effectiveness of creative; keep abreast of trends and
directions in promotion and creative that will keep Amazon Fashion on the
leading edge.
- Act as the internal champion and
owner of the Amazon Fashion Brand.
- Manage creative for on-site,
e-mail, online advertising, and occasionally print.
- Understand and respond to
promotion performance data, steering the strategy of future creative
directions.
- Hire, manage and mentor an
effective team of graphic designers.
- Develop budgets and timelines,
allocating appropriate resources to projects.
- Manage Amazon Fashion’s graphics
creation, securing and managing external resources (e.g. freelancers,
contractors and vendors) when necessary.
- Contribute to the overall
Softlines visual experience and functionality (desktop and mobile).
- Manage and lead creative reviews
and presentations, as well as seasonal planning and special
initiatives/projects meetings. Successfully able to present to senior
management (VP-level and above), influencing business and creative
decisions and direction.
- Establish and maintain a business
rhythm by conducting reviews and meetings on a regular basis.
- Provide Photo Art Direction on
set; bringing experience with product photo shoots and how to effectively
direct a crew from start to finish. Direct the photography sessions
including lighting, attitude, mood, styling, etc.
Basic Qualifications
- 7-10+ years of relevant
professional experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Fine
Arts/Graphic Design/Visual Communications/Advertising or commensurate
experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in fashion marketing
design or fashion retail desired.
- Knowledge of information
architecture, usability, and UI Design strongly desired.
- Knowledge and experience with rich
media advertisement creation strongly desired.
- A remarkable portfolio that
demonstrates your ability to turn ideas into a strong creative vision.
- A proven ability to work
cross-team and synthesize feedback and input from merchants, marketers,
copywriters, and product teams.
- Unwavering attention to detail and
an acute awareness that everything counts.
- Relentless desire for innovation,
balanced with business and user interaction priorities.
- Demonstrated business acumen and
customer-centricity.
- Expert understanding of the web
production process; familiarity with post-production retouching and at
least a working knowledge of the printing process.
- Desire and ability to work in a
fast-paced online environment.
- Highly developed written/verbal
communication skills and collaborative skills.
- Proficiency with HTML, CSS and
JavaScript desired.
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The benefits of having an In-House Art Director would
include but not limited to; Consistency, Creativity, Passionate, and Energetic.
“Directors also must
be great leaders with the ability to maximize the talents of their teams…Thus,
you’ll need to be an expert in all facets of the creative process — and the
creative industry — in order to produce the best work” (http://www.paladinstaff.com/). The
benefits of being an Art Director is you get to be a lead and motivate of a
team that is made up of highly skilled different individuals and create work
that you believe in and your team feels your passion so they execute their responsibilities
to the best of their abilities so the final product comes out just right. This
position has a great salary to go along with the job ranging from
$93,435-$242,999 a year this depends on the company you work for and what type
of industry you are in.