Head of Immersive Retail & Brand Experience (Devices)

Amazon; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Devices Brand Studio seeks a Head of Retail and Brand Experience to guide how our brands appear in stores, events, and activations for Amazon Devices. Lead a design team to translate brand strategy into compelling physical environments, from fixtures to live experiences, across major programs.

You will collaborate with operations, events, GTM, and strategy to ensure a cohesive customer journey, mentoring designers and presenting a clear point of view to executives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience across agency, studio, production company, or in-house with a focus on retail, environmental, or experiential design.
• Bachelor's degree in Design, Architecture, or equivalent design-related field.
• Portfolio with a range of experience across retail environments, brand activations, and packaging.

Responsibilities

• Own creative direction for retail experience and brand experience across large Amazon Devices programs, from concept through in-market execution.
• Set the strategy for how brand shows up physically, across retail fixtures, packaging, end caps, events, and activations.
• Partner with retail operations and site merchandising to intake business and operational requirements and translate them into creative that performs.
• Build trust, respect, and credibility with stakeholders, management peers, direct reports, and executives.
• Advocate for the customer's physical and in-person experience and integrate research into the creative process.
• Shape a world-class internal team of retail and environmental designers, developing the team through reviews, coaching, and skills growth.
• Mentor an effective team of retail, environmental, and brand designers.
• Extend the reach of the team by working with other internal and external creative and production teams as a stakeholder and approver.

Skills

Brand experience design

Leadership of design teams

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design, Architecture, or equivalent design-related field

Job description

Amazon’s Devices Brand Studio seeks a Head of Retail and Brand Experience to guide how our brands appear in stores, events, and activations for Amazon Devices. Lead a design team to translate brand strategy into compelling physical environments, from fixtures to live experiences, across major programs.

You will collaborate with operations, events, GTM, and strategy to ensure a cohesive customer journey, mentoring designers and presenting a clear point of view to executives.