Senior Creative Director, Amazon MX Player

Amazon; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 20,00,000 - 30,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Senior Creative Leader in Maharashtra to shape the brand and creatives for its free AVOD platform. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in creative design, strong project management skills, and the ability to articulate and pitch creative concepts effectively. Join us to craft engaging marketing campaigns and build viewer interest for our new shows.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of creative design experience across digital, marketing, and brand design.
• Proven success in managing projects across all media types.

Responsibilities

• Work with teams to develop creatives for Amazon MX Player Originals.
• Build brand design architecture for marketing campaigns.
• Create strategic creative strategies to generate advertiser interest.

Skills

Creative design experience

Creative writing

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Keynote

Job description

Amazon and MX Player recently joined forces to accelerate premium free entertainment for 250 million users in India. With this acquisition, Amazon merged two of India’s most popular free AVOD (or ad-supported video on demand) services – MX Player and Amazon miniTV into one service - Amazon MX Player.

Amazon MX Player is Amazon India’s big bet in terms of shaping the future of the free AVOD landscape in India. We are looking for a senior creative leader, who can help shape our brand and creatives for our new exciting show slate. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to work in a start-up like environment and is passionate about building clutter breaking creatives / marketing campaigns to build viewer interest for our new shows.

You can read about the service here:

• https://www.aboutamazon.in/news/entertainment/amazon-minitv-mx-player-merger
• https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/amazon-merges-minitv-with-mx-player-to-create-a-free-streaming-giant/articleshow/114007982.cms

This is a leadership role reporting into the head of the business. You should be comfortable with building structure in a high growth and ambiguous environment, build and implement a creative strategy for our content, and ability to work with multiple stakeholders / teams.

Key Job Responsibilities

As a Senior Creative Leader, you will:

• Work closely with production houses, content and marketing teams to develop creatives for Amazon MX Player Originals and licensed shows
• Work closely with the marketing team to build a common brand design architecture for the Amazon MX Player brand, which will reflect across all our external marketing campaigns
• Create bespoke and strategic creative strategies that generate advertiser interest in sponsoring Amazon MX Player shows
• Have a strong POV and creative vision along with a clear, concise ability to provide direction to internal and external partners
• Articulate and pitch creative concepts to peers, senior management, Executive Producers and talent
• Solve for business, customer, and stakeholder requirements while building creative that is unique, stunning and effective
• Think across platforms (mobile, social media, Connected TV, newspaper, OOH) and create tailored creatives across channels that help drive marketing objectives

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years of creative design experience that encompasses digital, interactive, marketing, and brand design
• Strong creative writing and verbal communication skills
• Proven success in project management and execution across all forms of media, print, video, social, OOH and digital mass media

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Keynote
• Experience leading creative development of innovative creative from concept to delivery
• Experience managing creative (internal team of designers, copywriters, external agencies and freelancers)
• Experience presenting creative concepts effectively to senior executives
• Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines

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