Creative Director CGI, Devices Brand Studio

Amazon.com Inc

Santa Monica, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Benchmarking, CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing), CGI (Common Gateway Interface), Communication Skills, Customer Relations, Documentation, Industrial Design, Marketing Strategy, Photography, Product Design, Prototyping, Quality Management, Quality Metrics, Rapid Prototyping, Storytelling, Team Player
LOCATION
Santa Monica, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago

Were seeking an exceptional CGI Creative Director to join Amazons Devices Brand Studio and help shape the visual future of our entire product portfolio. This role sits at a unique intersection: youll be both a vision setter and refining the aesthetic direction of our CGI work and a hands-on artist executing the conceptual renders and key art that set the standard for our production teams. While youll create work directly, a significant portion of your role will involve directing teams through providing highly specific feedback, conducting working sessions with artists, and guiding stakeholders through the creative process. Youll operate across the complete CGI pipeline, from initial concepting through pre-production, production, and post-production. Unlike traditional CGI production roles, youll approach every project from both a brand perspective and a customer perspective, discovering how these viewpoints can more effectively reinforce and elevate each other. The environment is fast-paced and high-volume, where rapid prototyping and iteration are essential.

Working directly with our internal and external teams, youll help define and evolve Amazons distinctive CGI visual language across every customer touchpoint. Your work will span from early conceptual exploration to polished key art, creating the foundational pieces that guide our teams as they bring our product stories to life. This is a deeply collaborative role in which youll partner with other Creative Directors and stakeholders across the organization to ensure visual consistency and innovation, work closely with our lead CGI Creative Director to push technical and creative boundaries, and collaborate with external vendor teams who execute the final production work. Your work will flow into internal creative playbooks, design documentation, and strategic presentations, ultimately shaping the customer-facing work that defines how millions of people first experience Amazon Devices.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Partner with Creative Directors and other stakeholders to conceptualize and execute photorealistic product renderings on extremely fast turnaround timelines in a high-volume environment. • Prototype and rapidly iterate CGI concepts, maintaining exceptional quality standards while moving at speed. • Execute on-the-spot creative changes and renderings for live keynote presentations at in-person launch events. • Leverage and share AI tools for image-making, staying at the forefront of generative image and video technology. • Design compelling presentation decks that successfully articulate CGI concepts to both creative and non-creative stakeholders. • Iterate and version concepts fluidly as product designs and marketing strategies evolve. • Work directly with industrial designers to translate CAD files, STP files, CMF specifications, and artwork documents into stunning visual executions. • Create foundational key art and conceptual renders that guide internal and external production teams. • Workshop new-to-world product lines with conceptual renderings that visualize products before they exist. • Bring visual storytelling expertise and photography principles (lighting, composition, camera) to every rendering. • Ensure consistency and excellence across diverse device categories while adapting to unique product requirements.

About the Team

The creative organization thrives on a singular, bold purpose: to craft work that isn't just exceptional, but world-class-a benchmark for excellence. We are relentless in this pursuit, especially when the odds are stacked against us.

Our foundation is a commitment to craft and a dedication to ensuring every piece of creative work embodies a consistent, breathtaking aesthetic quality. We don't meet expectations; we exist to define them. Details aren't just details-they're the difference between good and great.

We obsess over these nuances with passion and precision. While this pursuit is challenging at Amazon, we remain relentless alongside our partners and collaborators in bringing an elevated sense of taste to every detail. We do this because we know that excellence demands courage, resilience, and an unrelenting commitment to vision.

Our mission is clear: to inspire our customers by revealing the magic, love, and thoughtful invention infused into every product signed, Amazon Devices and Services.

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

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At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
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COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles