Description

Do you want to be part of a bar-raising team that creates at a global scale? Are you looking for an opportunity to produce packaging that delights millions of customers around the world? Are you excited to help us create Amazon’s most sustainable and accessible device packaging ever? If so, then the Device Packaging Experience team (DPX) wants to speak with you.

Amazon.com is looking for a talented PRINT PRODUCTION DESIGNER to join our packaging design team. The ideal candidate will have the ability to deliver clean, print-ready artwork in a fast-paced environment, and extend and adapt our design system as needed. This position requires strong organizational skills, print expertise, typesetting skills, color management skills, and acute attention to detail. The ability to undertake multiple projects and communicate with key stakeholders is essential. An online portfolio demonstrating printed production work and mechanical artwork is REQUIRED.

Key job responsibilities

You have exceptional technical skills related to production for print and packaging. You can translate design files into clean, optimized, print-ready files. You have impeccable attention to detail. You are a highly organized, self-motivated, and enthusiastic person who can thrive in a deadline-driven atmosphere. You prioritize and manage your time effectively. You respond positively to feedback, shifting priorities, and ambiguity. You want to be part of a close-knit, highly-engaged team who values collaboration and shares a quest for creative excellence, sustainability, and accessibility.

Responsibilities include:

• Adapting and producing artwork

• Editing presentation decks

• Assisting with soft-/hard-proof reviews

• Coordinating with external vendors

• Optimizing images and assets for print

• Retouching and color-correcting images

• Helping build and update guidelines

• Documenting processes and best practices

• Completing multiple tasks on tight deadlines

• Managing press checks (virtually or in-person)

• Helping maintain lab equipment

About the team

The VX (Visual Experience) team is a diverse group of creative professionals who support each other, all of whom have been on this team for at least 3 years, some as long as 11 years! We are passionate about packaging and print, as well as sustainability and accessibility. Our goal is to help reduce our carbon footprint while increasing our impact on customers worldwide, and we hope you can be a part of fulfilling our vision for creating Amazon's most sustainable and accessible packaging ever!

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

San Francisco, CA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Qualifications:

• • 4+ years experience in a design/production environment
• • Significant experience with print and/or packaging
• • BA/BS in Design or equivalent
• • Excellent Adobe Illustrator and InDesign skills
• • Proficiency in Photoshop
• • Excellent attention to detail and self-QC
• • Strong communication skills
• • Self-motivated and capable of working independently
• • Ability to create and maintain scalable solutions
• • Color assessment and correction skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Multi-language artwork experience

• International packaging experience

• Illustration editing or creation skills

• Experience with design for sustainability

• Experience with design for accessibility

• Experience with or interest in AI

• Excellent attention to detail

• Strong communication skills

• Self-motivated and capable of working independently

• Note that this is NOT a UX/UI role – significant experience in PRINT is necessary!

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $96,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/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.