Design Manager, Global Production Studios
Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at
The Global Production Studio (GPS) at Amazon Entertainment is an operationally-driven team of designers, producers, QA specialists and operations managers responsible for creating and delivering high volumes of digital assets. GPS is seeking a Design Manager (L5) to lead a group of Visual Designers who create digital assets while collaborating with internal global stakeholders and external agents to provide operational support while delivering high quality assets. Are you passionate about developing strong design solutions and define scalable processes? You will lead with example and will be responsible to build, coach and mentor high-class design teams for developing best-in-class consumer experiences in a fast-paced, agile, dynamic multinational environment.
Key job responsibilities
• Lead a team of Visual Designers, who perform medium to high-complexity, cohesive, and innovative design deliverables that are customer-focused, simple and intuitive with deep dive skills. Customer experience is always at the forefront.
• Manage day-to-day operations: Direct manager of a team of designers, support on resource planning, staffing, quality control, and reporting.
• Oversee the hiring & training: manage new team members onboarding and support overall team development.
• Define, recognize and develop talent and create an inspiring creative work environment and culture. Actively brings out the best in designers, developing both designers and team dynamics.
• Introduce, develop, and ensure best design practices, processes and communicate quality expectations organizationally.
• Operational efficiency: Ensure productivity is maximized through supervision, training, analysis, and feedback of performance data on a regular basis.
• Continuous Improvement: Collect, track, & present metrics related to processes, team accuracy and efficiency, and drive improvements in efficiency, throughput and cost across the organization.
• Inspire, encourage team to innovate, automate and build efficiencies in delivery, quality and raising the creative bar by developing effective brand experiences.
• Continuously evaluate tools and processes and offer solutions to ensure they are efficient, high quality, and scalable.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bangalore, KA, IND
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent). • 6+ years of industry experience in visual design or related creative discipline. • Demonstrated proficient written and speaking English communication skills. • Demonstrated track record of building out large scale design teams with progression advertising campaign experience. • Experience analyzing metrics accurately, building models around data to provide solutions and/or improvement to processes. • Experienced in client facing roles handling accounts or campaigns. • Proficiency in design principles (Typography, Composition, Scale, and Color Theory amongst other) and working knowledge of how those principles work together. • Proficiency in design tools (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite, etc.) and knowledge of various platforms (desktop and mobile) required for their specific role. • Experienced in Photoshop Artboards and other Creative Suite tools . • Thorough knowledge of design practices, tools, and standards. • Experience in design, digital production, and project management of print and digital advertising products throughout product lifecycle. • Portfolio and assessment are required.
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