Creative Dir, Social, North America Stores
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About the role
The North America Stores Creative team is on a mission to build world-class, scalable creative systems that fuel growth across every customer touchpoint. We believe great creative shouldn't just look good-it should move fast, work harder, and scale smarter. We're looking for a Creative Director who shares that belief and wants to build something lasting. In this role, you'll own the creative vision for two of the fastest-growing areas of our marketing ecosystem: Creator partnerships and paid social. You'll shape how millions of customers experience our brand across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, email, and on-site-while building the templates, systems, and frameworks that allow your team to do more with less. Why you'll love this role: -You'll partner on high-visibility, high-impact creative across channels that are evolving daily -You'll architect scalable systems from the ground up-not just make ads, but build the machine that makes them -You'll lead through seasonal tentpoles, HVEs, and always-on campaigns, keeping the work fresh and dynamic year-round -You'll partner with Creators, agencies, and cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
Responsibilities
- -Develop and maintain on-brand templates, modular design systems, and scalable creative structures that reduce production time and increase output efficiency over time
- -Lead creative style guides and execution for Creator-facing assets (emails, tool kits, site experiences) and paid social campaigns across Meta, TikTok, and Pinterest
- -Drive creative excellence across all campaign types: seasonal events, BAU messaging, and High Visibility Events (HVEs)
- -Manage and mentor a team of contractors and agency partners, ensuring high-quality output and adherence to brand standards
- -Establish repeatable workflows and playbooks that enable the team to scale without sacrificing craft
- -Partner cross-functionally with marketing, brand, and channel stakeholders to align creative with business objectives
- -Govern and consult on social creative produced outside of direct ownership to maintain cohesive brand expression
- -Identify opportunities to innovate on format, storytelling, and platform-native creative across emerging social channels
- Leadership Expectations
- -Build and optimize a high-performing extended team of contractors and agency partners
- Create operational frameworks that drive measurable efficiency gains (reduced cycle times, increased asset throughput)
- -Demonstrate strategic thinking by connecting creative decisions to business outcomes and audience engagement
- -Raise the bar on creative quality while simplifying systems for scale
- -Champion brand consistency as a cross-team partner and creative governance leader
- Key job responsibilities
- Lead a team of contract and agency writers and designers, fostering innovation and social creative excellence
- Pioneer the development and implementation of GenAI and automated creative solutions to scale creative operations
- Partner with marketing to improve creative review mechanisms and workflows across social and creator content
- Drive standardization and templatization of creative assets while maintaining brand quality
- Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive creative strategies that drive business results
- Identify and implement efficiency opportunities through tooling and automation
- Own the end-to-end creative process, from conceptualization to execution and measurement
- Lead testing and iteration of creative approaches to optimize performance
- A day in the life
- Overseeing creative reviews
- Developing creative concepts to solve business problems
- Leading/coaching designers and writers
- Partner on building processes
- Finding efficiencies through GenAi and tooling
Requirements
- 8+ years of driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Keynote
- Experience developing cross-functional relationships with product, consumer research and marketing teams to develop strategy and consumer insights that drive compelling creative executions
- Experience leading creative development of innovative creative from concept to delivery
- Experience managing creative (internal team of designers, copywriters, external agencies and freelancers)
- Experience presenting creative concepts effectively to senior executives
- Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines
- Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
- Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https:/
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