Creative Director

Amazon.com Services LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Creative Director to support Prime Video Shopping, owning creative art direction for consumer products tied to Amazon MGM Studios IPs. This onsite Seattle role leads franchise creative direction, guides licensees from concept through approval, and helps scale creative operations and tooling.

You will collaborate with the broader creative team to mentor and drive AI-enabled processes, ensuring design excellence across partnerships and franchises in a

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team.
• Bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

• Own and protect the creative bar for assigned intellectual properties.
• Develop comprehensive consumer products style guides and asset systems for franchise creative direction.
• Translate early materials into assets that pitch the franchise to licensees and inspire consumer products.
• Own product development for an assigned base of licensee partners from concept to approval.
• Review PD submissions against style guides, onboard partners, and lead partner meetings.
• Collaborate with the broader creative team to scale operations and adopt AI tooling.
• Provide art direction for main style guides and asset packs with internal designers.
• Contribute to processes moving routine production to a scaled team with AI tooling.

Skills

Creative direction

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

AI literacy

Franchise strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AI tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

PowerPoint

Figma

InDesign

Keynote

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is looking for a Creative Director to support Prime Video Shopping, taking ownership of creative art direction for consumer products tied to Amazon MGM Studios intellectual properties. In this onsite Seattle role, you will lead franchise creative direction, help guide licensees from concept through approval, and improve creative operations and tooling as the organization scales.

Location: Seattle, WA (onsite)
Compensation: USD 141,000 - 190,700 per yearly
Experience: 8+ years
Education: Bachelor's degree

What you will own

• Own and protect the creative bar for assigned intellectual properties.
• Develop comprehensive consumer products style guides and asset systems, including compositions, icons, patterns, packaging, color palettes, fonts, and layouts that define franchise creative direction.
• Translate early materials such as scripts, set photography, and key art into assets that pitch the franchise to prospective licensees and inspire final consumer products.
• Own product development for an assigned base of licensee partners, serving as the single point of contact from concept through approval.
• Review and approve PD submissions against style guides and brand standards, onboard new partners into the approval workflow, and lead partner presentations and kick-off meetings.
• Collaborate with the broader creative team to shift from manual creative processes toward a more scaled operation.
• Provide art direction for main style guides and art packs produced in partnership with internal designers.
• Contribute to processes that move routine production to a scaled team and help develop a path to produce direct designs through AI tooling.

How you drive decisions

• Present creative solutions and franchise direction to senior leadership and licensee partners, anticipate difficult design questions, and defend design decisions with clear rationale.
• Resolve conflicting feedback across internal and external stakeholders and move decisions forward.
• Mentor and develop the team, document institutional knowledge, and deliver solutions that increase group effectiveness, including championing the use of AI technology in creative contexts.

Minimum qualifications

• 8+ years of experience driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team.
• Bachelor's degree.

Tools and technologies

• AI tools
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• PowerPoint
• Figma
• InDesign
• Keynote

Benefits

• Sign-on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Keynote.
• Experience developing cross-functional relationships with product, consumer research, and marketing teams to build strategy and consumer insights that drive compelling creative execution.
• Experience leading creative development of innovative work from concept to delivery.
• Experience managing creative across internal designers, copywriters, external agencies, and freelancers.
• Experience presenting creative concepts effectively to senior executives.
• Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines.

Los Angeles County applicants

• Work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff.
• Adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions.
• Communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service.
• Follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies.
• Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.
• Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered.