Creative Director CGI, Devices Brand Studio

Amazon • Santa Monica, CA

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About The Position

We're seeking an exceptional CGI Creative Director to join Amazon's Devices
Brand Studio and help shape the visual future of our entire product portfolio.
This role sits at a unique intersection: you'll be both a vision setter and
refining the aesthetic direction of our CGI work and a hands-on artist executing
the conceptual renders and key art that set the standard for our production
teams. While you'll create work directly, a significant portion of your role
will involve directing teams through providing highly specific feedback,
conducting working sessions with artists, and guiding stakeholders through the
creative process. You'll operate across the complete CGI pipeline, from initial
concepting through pre-production, production, and post-production. Unlike
traditional CGI production roles, you'll approach every project from both a
brand perspective and a customer perspective, discovering how these viewpoints
can more effectively reinforce and elevate each other. The environment is
fast-paced and high-volume, where rapid prototyping and iteration are essential.

Working directly with our internal and external teams, you'll help define and
evolve Amazon's distinctive CGI visual language across every customer
touchpoint. Your work will span from early conceptual exploration to polished
key art, creating the foundational pieces that guide our teams as they bring our
product stories to life. This is a deeply collaborative role in which you'll
partner with other Creative Directors and stakeholders across the organization
to ensure visual consistency and innovation, work closely with our lead CGI
Creative Director to push technical and creative boundaries, and collaborate
with external vendor teams who execute the final production work. Your work will
flow into internal creative playbooks, design documentation, and strategic
presentations, ultimately shaping the customer-facing work that defines how
millions of people first experience Amazon Devices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of design experience
• Have an available online portfolio
• Experience art directing motion designers, illustrators, writers and content creators
• Experience partnering with technical partners for design implementation

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of marketing fundamentals and ability to implement them to create dynamic advertising solutions
• Knowledge of typographic and brand design principles

Responsibilities

• Partner with Creative Directors and other stakeholders to conceptualize and execute photorealistic product renderings on extremely fast turnaround timelines in a high-volume environment
• Prototype and rapidly iterate CGI concepts, maintaining exceptional quality standards while moving at speed
• Execute on-the-spot creative changes and renderings for live keynote presentations at in-person launch events
• Leverage and share AI tools for image-making, staying at the forefront of generative image and video technology
• Design compelling presentation decks that successfully articulate CGI concepts to both creative and non-creative stakeholders
• Iterate and version concepts fluidly as product designs and marketing strategies evolve
• Work directly with industrial designers to translate CAD files, STP files, CMF specifications, and artwork documents into stunning visual executions
• Create foundational key art and conceptual renders that guide internal and external production teams
• Workshop new-to-world product lines with conceptual renderings that visualize products before they exist
• Bring visual storytelling expertise and photography principles (lighting, composition, camera) to every rendering
• Ensure consistency and excellence across diverse device categories while adapting to unique product requirements

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed