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Description

We're seeking an experienced Visual Designer to drive the strategic evolution of Kindle's visual experience on behalf our our customers. In this role, you'll lead complex design initiatives that will help shape how millions of readers interact with ebooks while driving long-term organizational strategy for visual design excellence.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker who can balance creative excellence with business needs, while effectively leading complex initiatives across organizational boundaries. They should be comfortable working with ambiguous problems and able to create scalable solutions that elevate the entire design organization.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of digital reading while driving organizational excellence in visual design across Amazon Books.

Key job responsibilities

- Define and drive the long-term visual strategy for Kindle's reading experiences across surfaces, balancing customer needs with business goals and technical constraints

- Lead complex design initiatives that require coordination across multiple teams

- Develop scalable design systems and frameworks that enable force multiplication across the Books organization

- Identify and solve ambiguous design challenges where strategy and solutions are not clearly defined

- Drive organizational adoption of visual design best practices and standards

- Present strategic design solutions to senior leadership, articulating both creative vision and business rationale

- Actively mentor and develop others while fostering an inclusive design culture

- Make strategic trade-off decisions balancing short-term needs versus long-term sustainability

A day in the life

As a Senior Visual Designer at Amazon Books, you'll drive strategic visual initiatives while balancing hands-on creative work. You'll lead design reviews with cross-functional partners to align visual direction for reading features and present strategic vision and mood boards to senior stakeholders. Your role includes mentoring designers, creating and validating visual and communication elements such as typography and color palettes for various lighting conditions, defining specifications for scalable graphic asset production, and developing illustration concepts for lock screens for reading devices.

Your work will directly influence how millions of readers interact with their books, making reading more engaging and accessible across Amazon's reading experiences.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker who can balance creative excellence with business needs, while effectively leading complex initiatives across organizational boundaries. They should be comfortable working with ambiguous problems and able to create scalable solutions that elevate the entire design organization.

About the team

We are part of the 70+ person Research and Design Studio within the Books organization, where our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. On our direct team we support central Books creative needs as well as Author and Publishing experiences, while fostering an inclusive environment where creative minds can thrive and innovate together.

Join us in shaping the future of reading while being part of a team that values creativity, inclusivity, and personal growth.

Basic Qualifications

- 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

- Experience in visual design demonstrated through design concepts, case studies, documentation, mockups and style guides

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of marketing fundamentals and ability to implement them to create dynamic advertising solutions

- Knowledge of typographic and brand design principles

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://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $210,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.