Job Description
Growth Designer (Contract)
New York, NY, or Remote
theSkimm’
We’re hiring a Growth Design Consultant for our Growth Design team. This is a contract position.
Please include a link to an online or PDF portfolio with your application.
About our team and what we’ll build together
The design team is a group of fast-moving, innovative creators who thrive on building beautiful experiences Skimm’rs love. In this role, you’ll envision and create impactful product experiences to educate, inform, and inspire our community.
You will work alongside the Growth marketing team and have the opportunity to shape, evolve, and strategize how Skimm’rs discover and subscribe to our products. This person will work directly with internal stakeholders and translate marketing and brand strategies into innovative campaigns. The ideal candidate has a sophisticated aesthetic and is comfortable working at a fast pace under short lead deadlines.
How you’ll contribute to our mission
- Under the guidance of a Senior Creative Manager while working closely with other members of the team, support projects by designing assets that grow, elevate, and reinforce brand identity, user experience, and company objectives
- Concept, design, and execute creative for growth campaigns and growth initiatives cross-functionally across the organization
- Collaborate with a product designer and product team to innovate new features, experiences, and capabilities
- From concept through implementation, you’ll design beautiful and engaging assets across the web, email campaigns, social media, digital ads, paid search, SMS, landing pages, and other areas of growth
- Partner closely and collaborate with the sales, brand, commerce, marketing, editorial, and business stakeholders
- Present clear and compelling ideas to stakeholders, while managing expectations
- Foster a collaborative process with teams across the organization
- Work with the entire design team to evolve the design system, grow our brand, understand the value of design storytelling and help to build and maintain a cohesive visual language
You’re ready for this! Here’s a bit more about what we’re looking for
- 3+ years of digital design experience
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of design craft
- Experience building effective ad creative on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube, and Display
- You can identify trends and customer needs to discover new creative opportunities
- Give feedback with kindness and candor
- Strong critical thinking and communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with a team, as well as independently
- Proficient in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
- Confidence in creating animated assets with Adobe After Effects
- Self-learning, able to learn new tools quickly and work in a fast-evolving environment
- Sophisticated design aesthetic with a passion for typography, strong composition skills, and an understanding of grids and color theory
- Ability to refine other people’s ideas and push the best concept forward
- Keen interest in elevating theSkimm band and a passion for our audience and mission
The expected rate for this role is between $29/hr-$33/hr. We’ll consider a variety of factors when determining compensation including an evaluation of a candidate’s skills, abilities, experience, location, market demands, and internal parity.
Our story, Skimm’d
We are a digital media company, dedicated to succinctly giving women the information they need to make confident decisions. We make it easier to live smarter.
At our core, we are writers, editors, producers, designers, marketers, engineers, analysts, sellers, creatives, and strategists all working together to achieve this goal.
Everyday we’re breaking down the news, trends, policies, and politics that impact women so that they can navigate their daily lives and futures – from managing their paychecks to casting their ballots – with confidence. We provide our dedicated audience of millions with reliable, non-partisan, information, informing and empowering them while fitting into their daily routines.
Since disrupting the media landscape and defining a new category a decade ago, we have become a trusted source for our audience of millions by seamlessly integrating into their existing routines, fundamentally changing the way they consume news and make decisions. Today theSkimm ecosystem includes the Daily Skimm, the Daily Skimm: Weekend, Skimm Money and Skimm Your Life newsletters, top-rated podcasts: “Skimm This” and “9 to 5ish with theSkimm,” theSkimm mobile app, virtual course series SkimmU, and Skimm Studios which creates innovative in-house video and audio content. Our first book, How to Skimm Your Life debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. Through Skimm Impact, our purpose-driven platform, we are proud to support get-out-the-vote efforts with Skimm Your Ballot, which has spurred 1 million voting-related actions across the last three election cycles, and it’s #ShowUsYourLeave movement, creating transparency and change for Paid Family Leave in the U.S.
What about the office?
This is a contract role with flexibility for remote work.
Our office is available to use three days a week – Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We have a hybrid environment and ask that employees within the New York Metro area come together in person a minimum of three days per month. All other days are up to the discretion of the employees during the three days a week that the office will be open. We are continuing to closely monitor the state of COVID-19 in New York and will adjust this plan accordingly.
We will require COVID-19 vaccinations for anyone coming to our office. We are following CDC recommendations and will also require additional boosters, and will always follow CDC and NY state guidance on wearing masks in the office.
*Any correspondence from our team will come from a @theskimm.com email account!