Art Director (Hybrid)

About the position

At Amplitude, we're looking for an Art Director to drive the execution of our visual brand. We need a smart, talented, and experienced Art Director that's excited to roll up their sleeves and take the success of our brand to the next level. Are you looking for a career-defining opportunity at a growing software company? Do you love building iconic brands and working within a talented creative team? Are you constantly looking for new ways to tell stories? Do you love pushing for great creative and trying new things? If so then this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Art direct and manage creative vendors: Build out a roster and maintain relationships with design agencies and contractors. Know how to get stuff done on budget and on time.
• Work cross-functionally: partner with many stakeholders across the organization (product marketing, people and places, product design and more) to problem solve and create good work.
• Implement Amplitude's brand: design assets such as: content ebooks, web, product, video (design assets), social, sub-brands, presentations, events, and environmental design.
• Uplevel and maintain our brand: Use your creative know-how to evolve the Amplitude brand. Bring the brand to life through design and visual storytelling. Build and expand on current guidelines.

Requirements

• 7-12+ years experience in a design role.
• Design portfolio with great work that showcases a modern design aesthetic and great taste, experience with integrated multitouchpoint campaigns, and brand awareness work.
• Excellent understanding of formal design elements - typography, composition, color etc.
• You know how to evolve and maintain a brand, and have a proven track record.
• You are a person who loves to design and will roll up your sleeves but is also excellent at giving creative feedback.
• You have a great eye and a high bar for excellence.
• You have technical savviness - you've mastered Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in web development and ability to provide feedback to developers.
• Animation experience.
• Solid knowledge of photography and video production.

Benefits

• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans.
• Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more.
• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that's wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much more.
• Excellent Parental benefits including: 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support.
• Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only).
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).