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Senior Art Director roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship under the specialty occupation standard, requiring a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field such as graphic design, visual communications, or fine arts. Employers in advertising, publishing, and in-house creative teams regularly file LCAs for this title.
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Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab is looking for a talented and passionate Conceptual Sr. Art Director to create one-of-a-kind campaigns for a wide range of brands across Travel, Fashion, Pets, CPG, and FinServ. You’ll partner with copywriters, designers, solutions managers and producers to create first-class customer experiences both on and offline by innovating with the Amazon canvas (Prime Video, Alexa, Twitch, etc). You'll lead projects and own client relationships, focusing on creating work that benefits the end customer while pushing the creative envelope from brief to execution.
This role will use data, insights and creativity to create campaign strategy and concepts, develop designs and the look and feel for experiences, as well as templates for never-before-done brand experiences that will solve customer problems, on and off Amazon platforms. You have strong conceptual, presentation, storytelling and project management skills, as well as digital media, and of course, an acute attention to detail.
The candidate’s portfolio should feature interesting, innovative, insight-driven campaigns and ideas that solve an advertiser problem through a variety of different media channels, including but not limited to video, social, digital, activations, radio, and outdoor. Their portfolio will include non-traditional mediums (i.e. not just film). This role will be client-facing, so having good presentation skills to share work in a succinct and compelling way is important.
Key job responsibilities
- Concept, design and execute innovative ads - campaigns and experiences for global brands
- Partner with copywriters, designers, program managers, developers, strategists and producers to create customer-focused solutions that deliver on advertiser objectives
- Independently lead campaigns and collaborate with internal teams, clients and external agency partners
- Deliver high-quality designs and stellar art direction for campaigns across different Amazon touch points
- In-depth understanding of Photoshop Suite, Figma, and AI tools
- Data-driven and obsessed with understanding customers and making work that delivers results
- Present ideas and concepts to clients, agencies and internally
- Proven ability to ideate across both traditional and non-traditional formats. Proven ability to create new mediums for advertising
- Ability to manage multiple projects at one time to make deadlines
- Mentor and inspire junior designers and creatives
A day in the life
- Partner with IMDb on how to create a reality content series for a travel brand
- Invent a product that helps revolutionize cooking with a CPG brand
- Present a campaign to brand clients and their partner media agency
- Design a trivia experience for a FinServ brand using Prime Video titles
- Review video edits for influencer product launch campaign
- Innovate what's next on Amazon for our fashion advertisers
About the team
Brand Innovation Lab (BIL) is an award-winning team that conceptualizes and executes bespoke advertising experiences for global brands—including Nike, Purina, Gap, Santander, and P&G—who invest in media with Amazon Ads, scaling successful campaign elements as new products or features in existing products. Our global team of storytellers and innovators includes creatives, strategists, design technologists, engineers, producers and more, collaborating to create customer-obsessed solutions across the Amazon canvas (Alexa, Twitch, Prime Video, Fire TV, etc.) that are customized to our advertisers' goals.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Candidate must have an online portfolio or work samples that feature interesting, innovative, insight-driven campaigns and ideas that solve an advertiser problem through a variety of different media channels, including but not limited to video, social, digital, activations, radio, and outdoor.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience developing cross-functional relationships with product, consumer research and marketing teams to develop strategy and consumer insights that drive compelling creative executions
- Experience leading creative development of innovative creative from concept to delivery
- Experience presenting creative concepts effectively to senior executives
- Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines
- Familiarity with generative AI tools (e.g., image generators, LLM-based copywriting assistants, video synthesis tools) and an understanding of how to incorporate them into creative workflows to accelerate ideation, production, and personalization at scale
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.
COMPENSATION
- 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.
LOCATION
USA, NY, New York - 155,400.00 - 210,300.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab is looking for a talented and passionate Conceptual Sr. Art Director to create one-of-a-kind campaigns for a wide range of brands across Travel, Fashion, Pets, CPG, and FinServ. You’ll partner with copywriters, designers, solutions managers and producers to create first-class customer experiences both on and offline by innovating with the Amazon canvas (Prime Video, Alexa, Twitch, etc). You'll lead projects and own client relationships, focusing on creating work that benefits the end customer while pushing the creative envelope from brief to execution.
This role will use data, insights and creativity to create campaign strategy and concepts, develop designs and the look and feel for experiences, as well as templates for never-before-done brand experiences that will solve customer problems, on and off Amazon platforms. You have strong conceptual, presentation, storytelling and project management skills, as well as digital media, and of course, an acute attention to detail.
The candidate’s portfolio should feature interesting, innovative, insight-driven campaigns and ideas that solve an advertiser problem through a variety of different media channels, including but not limited to video, social, digital, activations, radio, and outdoor. Their portfolio will include non-traditional mediums (i.e. not just film). This role will be client-facing, so having good presentation skills to share work in a succinct and compelling way is important.
Key job responsibilities
- Concept, design and execute innovative ads - campaigns and experiences for global brands
- Partner with copywriters, designers, program managers, developers, strategists and producers to create customer-focused solutions that deliver on advertiser objectives
- Independently lead campaigns and collaborate with internal teams, clients and external agency partners
- Deliver high-quality designs and stellar art direction for campaigns across different Amazon touch points
- In-depth understanding of Photoshop Suite, Figma, and AI tools
- Data-driven and obsessed with understanding customers and making work that delivers results
- Present ideas and concepts to clients, agencies and internally
- Proven ability to ideate across both traditional and non-traditional formats. Proven ability to create new mediums for advertising
- Ability to manage multiple projects at one time to make deadlines
- Mentor and inspire junior designers and creatives
A day in the life
- Partner with IMDb on how to create a reality content series for a travel brand
- Invent a product that helps revolutionize cooking with a CPG brand
- Present a campaign to brand clients and their partner media agency
- Design a trivia experience for a FinServ brand using Prime Video titles
- Review video edits for influencer product launch campaign
- Innovate what's next on Amazon for our fashion advertisers
About the team
Brand Innovation Lab (BIL) is an award-winning team that conceptualizes and executes bespoke advertising experiences for global brands—including Nike, Purina, Gap, Santander, and P&G—who invest in media with Amazon Ads, scaling successful campaign elements as new products or features in existing products. Our global team of storytellers and innovators includes creatives, strategists, design technologists, engineers, producers and more, collaborating to create customer-obsessed solutions across the Amazon canvas (Alexa, Twitch, Prime Video, Fire TV, etc.) that are customized to our advertisers' goals.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Candidate must have an online portfolio or work samples that feature interesting, innovative, insight-driven campaigns and ideas that solve an advertiser problem through a variety of different media channels, including but not limited to video, social, digital, activations, radio, and outdoor.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience developing cross-functional relationships with product, consumer research and marketing teams to develop strategy and consumer insights that drive compelling creative executions
- Experience leading creative development of innovative creative from concept to delivery
- Experience presenting creative concepts effectively to senior executives
- Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines
- Familiarity with generative AI tools (e.g., image generators, LLM-based copywriting assistants, video synthesis tools) and an understanding of how to incorporate them into creative workflows to accelerate ideation, production, and personalization at scale
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.
COMPENSATION
- 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.
LOCATION
USA, NY, New York - 155,400.00 - 210,300.00 USD annually
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Verify your degree field matches the role
USCIS evaluates whether your degree is in a field directly related to art direction. A degree in graphic design, visual communications, or fine arts strengthens your petition. A business or unrelated humanities degree may trigger an RFE requiring additional evidence.
Target employers with LCA filing history
Search Migrate Mate to filter Senior Art Director roles by employers who have filed LCAs for this specific title. That filing history signals the employer understands the H-1B process and has infrastructure to sponsor again.
Check prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your job title and work location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level I through Level IV wage for art director roles before you receive or accept an offer.
Document your portfolio as specialty occupation evidence
Assemble a portfolio that demonstrates theoretical and practical application of design principles, not just executional output. USCIS looks for evidence that the role requires specialized knowledge a generalist couldn't perform without a relevant degree.
Confirm your role maps to the correct SOC code
Senior Art Director typically maps to SOC 27-1011 in DOL and USCIS filings. Review the O*NET profile for this code to confirm your job duties align. A mismatch between your offer letter and the SOC code can delay LCA certification.
Plan your petition timeline around the October 1 start date
H-1B cap-subject petitions can only start employment on October 1. USCIS opens registration in March. If you're negotiating a start date with an employer, build backward from October 1 to set realistic expectations on both sides.
H-1B Visa Senior Art Director: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Art Director role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. USCIS recognizes Senior Art Director as a specialty occupation because the role normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in graphic design, visual communications, fine arts, or a closely related field. Your offer letter should describe duties that require that specific theoretical and practical knowledge, not just general creative judgment or managerial oversight.
Which industries sponsor H-1B visas for Senior Art Director positions?
Advertising agencies, publishing houses, entertainment studios, technology companies with in-house creative teams, and consumer brands with large marketing departments are the most common H-1B sponsors for Senior Art Director roles. You can browse verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate, filtered specifically for this job title and location.
What happens if my art director job duties span multiple departments?
USCIS evaluates the primary duties of the role, not a broad job description. If your offer letter lists duties across brand, UX, and motion design, work with your employer's immigration counsel to draft a petition that centers the specialty occupation argument on the dominant function. Vague or sprawling duty lists are a common RFE trigger for creative roles.
Can my employer start my H-1B in the middle of a fiscal year?
Cap-subject H-1B petitions can only authorize employment beginning October 1 of the fiscal year for which you were selected in the lottery. If your employer is cap-exempt, such as a university or nonprofit research institution, they can file at any time with no October 1 restriction and no lottery requirement.
How does the H-1B prevailing wage requirement affect art director roles specifically?
The DOL assigns prevailing wages to art director positions by geography and experience level, from Level I through Level IV. Senior roles typically map to Level III or IV, which carry higher wage floors than entry-level filings. Your employer certifies in the LCA that your offered salary meets or exceeds that floor before USCIS will adjudicate the petition. Use the OFLC Wage Search to check the current floor for your city before finalizing your offer.