Senior Art Director, Amazon Leo

Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services LLC is hiring a Senior Art Director to support Amazon Leo as the team brings a new global brand to life. This onsite role in Bellevue, WA blends hands-on creative leadership with brand-building across campaigns, digital experiences, and physical touchpoints, while encouraging experimentation with emerging tools and generative AI.

Role overview

In this position, you help shape the next chapter of Amazon Leo’s visual identity. You’ll take the brand into new areas, guiding creative from concept through execution and helping raise the bar for design across the organization.

What you’ll do

• Shape Amazon Leo’s evolving visual identity across global campaigns and digital experiences.
• Lead creative work spanning illustrations, branded merchandise, and physical environments.
• Collaborate with Creative Directors, designers, producers, and storytellers who care about craft and strong ideas.
• Own projects end to end, from concept through execution, including experimentation with emerging tools and technologies.
• Contribute to consistent design quality across a global organization.

Experience and qualifications

• 8+ years driving compelling creative strategy and execution in an agency or in-house creative team environment.
• Knowledge of Adobe creative suite, including Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator.
• Knowledge of typography, design principles, and trends with best practices across digital and print.
• Online portfolio showing strong visual design skills and advertising experience across a range of media and platforms, including work that reflects your design process.
• Experience partnering with external and internal stakeholders throughout development and production.
• 7+ years professional experience in art direction, graphic design, or brand design within a creative agency or in-house organization.
• Experience using Figma for visual design, collaborative workflows, and reusable design components.
• Demonstrated experience applying and extending brand identity systems across multiple formats, campaigns, and creative applications.
• Experience managing multiple creative projects simultaneously and presenting creative concepts to stakeholders.

Tools and technologies

• Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Creative Cloud
• Figma, Figma component libraries, and Figma libraries
• Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Runway
• Unity, Unreal, CryEngine, Lumberyard

Compensation and location

Bellevue, WA (onsite). Salary range: USD 141,000 - 190,700 per year. Minimum experience: 8 years.

Benefits

• Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, and option for Supplemental life plans
• EAP, Mental Health Support, and Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts, plus Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)

Preferred qualifications

• Experience on or with large-scale, global creative campaigns.
• Ability to present creative concepts effectively to senior executives.
• Experience working independently with minimal supervision, including guiding, training, and mentoring others.
• Experience with Unity, Unreal, CryEngine, Lumberyard, or equivalent proprietary 3D game engine technology, including non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience managing content development and campaigns.
• Experience art directing motion designers, illustrators, writers, and content creators.
• Experience building, evolving, or scaling global brand design systems, including Figma libraries, reusable components, templates, and visual guidelines.
• Experience taking ownership of ambiguous creative challenges and making independent design decisions that align creative and business objectives.
• Strong illustration skills, including original artwork, vector illustration, and the ability to develop distinctive visual styles.
• Experience designing branded merchandise, apparel, packaging, environmental graphics, and physical brand experiences, including knowledge of print and fabrication techniques.
• Hands-on experience with generative AI tools such as Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Runway (or similar) for concept development and creative experimentation.
• Experience using generative AI, automation, and scripting tools to streamline repetitive design tasks and improve workflows across digital and physical brand applications.
• Experience developing scalable design systems and production infrastructure, including Figma component libraries, templates, asset management tools, and automated workflows.
• Experience creating custom plugins, scripts, macros, or integrations across Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, and other design applications.