Starte durch als Art Director, Amazon Brand Innovation Lab bei Amazon Online Germany GmbH in München

Stellenausschreibung

• - Minimum of 4 years art direction / design / communications experience at advertising agencies and/or in-house creative departments
• - Must have an online portfolio URL in your resume, demonstrating an art direction, design and conceptual thinking skillset, as well as big, campaignable thinking that can extend into any medium
• - Strong understanding of digital and social platforms, as well as their use within marketing

Brand Innovation Labs is looking for an experienced Art Director with advanced German speaking skills to join our team. In this role you'll be creating one-of-a-kind campaigns for a wide range of global brands. You'll partner with copywriters, designers, program managers and producers to create innovative work by hacking the Amazon canvas (Alexa, Twitch, Prime Video, etc). You'll work on projects that benefit the end customer while pushing the creative envelope. And with new tech rolling out all the time, there's always an opportunity to create something innovative on behalf of our clients.

The candidate’s portfolio should feature interesting, insight-driven campaigns and ideas that solve an advertiser problem through a variety of different media channels, including but not limited to video, social, digital, activations, radio, and outdoor. This role will be client-facing, so having good presentation skills to share work in a succinct and compelling way is important.

Key job responsibilities

• Concept, design and execute innovative ad campaigns and experiences for global brands
• Partner with copywriters, designers, program managers, developers, strategists and producers to create customer-focused solutions that deliver on advertiser objectives
• Create campaigns under the guidance of Creative Directors, collaborating with internal teams, clients and external agency partners
• Deliver high-quality designs and stellar art direction for campaigns across different Amazon touch points
• In-depth understanding of Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Keynote
• Data-driven and obsessed with understanding customers and making work that delivers results
• Present ideas and campaigns to internal stakeholders as well as external agencies and clients in both English and sometimes German
• Proven ability to ideate for film, print, digital, out-of-home, experiential and social
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time to make aggressive deadlines
• You know, the usual stuff
• ADVANCED GERMAN SPEAKING SKILLS

A day in the life

• Partnering with IMDb on how to create a reality content series for the latest film franchise
• Designing a movie trivia experience for a brand using Prime Video titles
• Working through creative messaging feedback with Legal and PR
• Presenting a campaign to brand clients and their partner media agency
• Ideating with the team on innovative ways to get customers to the cinema

About the team
The Brand Innovation Lab team is the internal group within Amazon that creates one-of-a-kind campaigns and activations for global advertisers, like Pepsi, Microsoft, Adidas, Samsung, and Unilever. Using all of the different platforms within the Amazon canvas (Custom landing pages on Amazon.com, Alexa, Twitch, Prime Video, etc.), we create campaigns that reach millions of Amazon customers across our digital channels and out in the real-world. The Endemic pod specifically deals with brands that sell directly on Amazon – sneakers, laptops, detergent, soda, etc. If it arrives in a bag or a box, that's a brand you could work on.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Berlin, BE, DEU | Munich, BY, DEU

• - You are scrappy, insightful and an innovative problem solver
• - You bring visual flair and conceptual excellence to the work, inspiring clients and team members to raise the creative bar
• - You tell stories that connect brands with customers in a meaningful way, across different all channels, creating work that's on strategy and delivers results
• - You love presenting to clients and internal folks, but can also handle feedback like a pro
• - You regularly push your comfort zone to stretch and improve yourself, never thinking "that's not my job"
• - You are passionate about design, technology, advertising, marketing, and are always keeping pace with it
• - You use data and insights to create work that resonates with customers
• - You are ego-free and are highly collaborative, working with a diverse group of people and learning from them
• - You are a self starter, spotting an opportunity and making something out of nothing
• - You aren’t afraid to question the status quo, and take steps to change things for the better

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