Associate Creative Director, Alexa Speech

Alexa Speech enables Alexa to acknowledge, understand, and respond to customers as well as a human would, on any endpoint, in any language. Join us as we invent the future.

We’re seeking an Associate Creative Director to help us define, execute, and deliver a Celebrity Voice experience that brings great value to Alexa’s customers. You will participate in developing the strategy and vision for the group, and you will develop and provide a design and UX perspective into the product roadmaps and features. This role is inherently cross-functional – you will work closely with engineering, product, operations, finance and executive teams to bring features to market and develop and grow business opportunities for Amazon.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Tech, Product and Content to deliver creative work that helps the project exceed its business objectives
• Responsible for end-to-end delivery of the creative process (content and UX related) – drive creative briefings, develop & execute creative concepts, determine solutions/alternatives when necessary, and present work to stakeholders.
• Fluency in understanding and interpreting strategy to developing initial concepts
• Design appropriate, useful, desirable, fun and engaging celebrity experiences through Alexa
• Strong understanding of digital and social platforms as well as their use within Entertainment
• Exceptional design skills, including speech, video, interaction, design patterns, and copywriting
• Create user-centered designs by considering analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings
• Work with project managers to plan projects for effective delivery of content while maintaining high standards for design
• Provide contractors with creative direction/art direction
• Be a passionate and effective advocate for design with non-design audiences