Jun Wakabayashi

About Jun Wakabayashi

Specializes in building a global creative team with emphasis in productivity, data-driven design, and operational excellence. Background in TV production as a director and producer. Bilingual (English and Japanese).

Experience

1. Sr Manager, Global Design, 3d and Marketing Operation

   Amazon

   Jun 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Managing multi-functional teams (100+ full time employees across 7 countries) focused on scaling the design and marketing operation for worldwide retail, Prime, devices, Alexa and brand teams. 3D tech, CGI and AR – Computer vision and 3D automation to improve the quality and speed of delivery for editorial image assets available for global marketing campaigns International launch – Led the design direction for new Amazon marketplace launches (e.g. Amazon.SE, Amazon.PL) Design automation – Launched internal tools to automate significant volume of day-to-day design requests from marketers across 25 countries, resulting in $XX million annual savings Lean Six Sigma – Developed the operational efficiency training for global teams Marketing spend operation – responsible for the lifecycle of $X billion marketing budget (invoice management, forecast, compliance) Authored and published the company-wide role guideline for Visual Designers

Education

• UW Foster School of Business

  Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration

  1996 — 1999

Skills

• Interaction Design
• User-Centered Design
• Time Management
• Budgets
• User Experience
• Information Architecture
• Graphics
• User Interface Design
• Fashion
• Web Design
• Management
• Graphic Design
• Photoshop
• Analysis
• Multimedia