AmazonSr. Design Operations Manager, Amazon Ads - Brand Innovation Lab
Amazon is hiring a Sr. Design Operations Manager, Amazon Ads - Brand Innovation Lab in Seattle, United States. It pays $130k-$175k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
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- Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this role: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions Firetv, Alexa and design operations among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Amazon has 20,000+ other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Manage operational excellence and global design systems for Amazon Ads Brand Innovation Lab across multiple digital surfaces.
The TEX XD team is a group of user experience and interactive designers who move fast, juggle concurrent campaigns for major global brands, and operate with significant creative autonomy. You'll own the operational infrastructure that keeps that possible while also raising the quality bar through consistency, shared standards, and feedback loops that connect what ships back to what gets built next.
The design system is the majority of the job. It will serve most advertising campaigns and prototypes that comes through BIL across categories, markets, and platforms starting with Brand Store pages and extending to surfaces such as FireTV, Alexa and video. You'll partner with global stakeholders to define and operate our governance and standards that scale across all surfaces while staying useful to the designers and engineers building the work.
You'll report to the Experience Design Manager quickly becoming a vital team member who works cross disciplines daily.
Key job responsibilities
Own governance, maintenance, and evolution of the design system, including how designers and engineers contribute to it, how it's versioned, and how adoption is tracked.
Build research and measurement into the system itself feeding usage data, performance, and qualitative feedback directly into what gets built, deprecated, or improved.
Identify what's missing, propose what to build next, and prioritize the roadmap.
Scale mechanisms for workload visibility, capacity planning, and resource allocation across concurrent campaigns.
Evangelize the design system and the team's work through how you communicate, how you show up cross-functionally, and the processes you put in place.
A day in the life
Morning: you're reviewing incoming requests triaging to who has the right expertise for the campaign. Mid-morning, you're running design system office hours a designer requesting a feature for a component and needs guidance. After lunch, you're pulling adoption metrics and campaign performance data to decide which components need iteration and which are ready to scale. Then you're in a working session with analytics team, connecting their findings back to system priorities. End of day you join a sync with the Experience Design Manager about planning for next quarter.
About the team
Brand Innovation Lab (BIL) focuses on the conception, prototyping and execution of branded custom experiences across Amazon properties. This role sit within the Technology and Experience (TEX) team, working across emerging platforms and technologies to create innovative advertising experiences that drive campaign success for the world's biggest brands.
Basic qualifications
- 6+ years of design experience
- Experience understanding needs of business and end customers and translating them into right solutions
- Experience gathering and analyzing large amounts of data and delivering continuous business improvements
- Experience with asset management, design workflows, or partnering with creative teams
- Experience managing design systems at scale (contribution models, governance, tooling).
Preferred qualifications
- Knowledge of project management tools and methodologies (agile to waterfall)
- Experience working and contributing to project playbooks, building schedules, managing issues/risks, establishing communication plans and stakeholder management
- Experience in marketing, brand advertising, media sales, or online advertising and close work with senior advertisers and agency stakeholders
- Background in building dashboards or reporting frameworks for creative organizations.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 129,500.00 - 175,100.00 USD annually
How we rate this
Sr. Design Operations Manager, Amazon Ads - Brand Innovation Lab at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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