Visual Designer

Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon is looking for an enthusiastic Visual Designer to join the Workplace Health and Safety Team. We're not an average company, and this is definitely not your average position. We'll give you the opportunity to make a difference in our safety engagement and learning experiences across the globe. At Amazon, we obsess over the safety of our people and partners - they are our customers. Our people trust us because we provide a safe work environment. Our commitment to deliver the best technologies and practices meets and exceeds expectations. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us educate and empower the people who care for and deliver on our customer promise - we need you.

We are seeking a Visual Designer who will be responsible for operating visual design software and tools to produce branded learning experiences supporting the Safety Learning & Development Team. You will create graphic artwork for use in web-based training courses, instructor-led training materials, and learning aid collateral.

Key job responsibilities
- You are a team player who works collaboratively with the creative director, learning experience designers, and content developers to understand the training objectives and target audience, identify the most effective solutions, and deliver results on time.
- You understand the value of a brand and carefully follow standards and guidelines to ensure your work stays true to the brand identity.
- You are an excellent digital illustrator, capable of creating scenes and visuals from scratch, as well as designing and editing character systems for effective storytelling. You have an expert eye on perspective, lighting, and color-coordination that allow you to deliver cohesive and consistent illustration or set of illustrations.
- You are proficient with design softwares, and stay up-to-date on the latest creative tools and trends.
- You are highly experienced with design systems and visual architecture: you use the right grid system to inform your layouts. You design with accessibility and usability in mind. You are an expert with type ramp and styling, and have knowledge in responsive design and designing for various displays.
- You are a design perfectionist. Your visual elements are always aligned, your margins are set, your color values are accurate, and your font style is consistent.
- You have excellent time-management skills and are able to prioritize your tasks to remain on track and deliver on time.

About the team
Amazon's Workplace Health and Safety team leads cross-functional projects that require collaboration and partnership with Amazon businesses, geographical units and technical subject matter experts (SMEs). We partner with teams to inspire bold thinking, iterate on ideas, and deliver the solutions that will make Amazon the safest workplace on earth. Through our work, we engage with operations, tech, engineering and other potential partners as a means to create pathways for future partnerships to incubate tomorrow's solutions today. We do this through strategic communication using pull marketing methodology based on the stories we need to be sharing.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 4+ years of design experience
- Experience in storyboarding
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience working with a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
- Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines
- Experience working across teams and synthesizing feedback from multiple teams/owners
- Very good to excellent experience in MS PowerPoint, including designing presentation templates, animation, and slide transitions
- Bachelor's Degree Completed

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
- Experience in prototyping
- Experience in animation/graphics motion design. Character rigging is a nice-to-have

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