Lead Designer [Email Marketing Agency]

Full-time

Remote

About Flowium

Flowium is a full-service email marketing agency for eCommerce brands and their owners. Our mission is to deliver result-driven email marketing solutions while applying our core values in every experience that our clients, customers, and team members have with our team. Email Marketing is our passion, and we remain dedicated and committed to being leaders within the industry.

Position Overview

We are looking for a creative graphic designer with experience in leading creative teams, designing and building emails in Mailchimp or Klaviyo.

You will work closely with our Project Managers, Strategist and copywriters to design email campaigns, opt-in forms, templates, and other graphic materials for email. Your job will be to use a client's style guide or brand book to create compelling email templates and campaigns.

You will be working on many different projects for some of the fastest-growing E-commerce businesses in the country. You’ll be able to play with new design styles, try different visual approaches, and constantly think outside the box.

We have a page devoted to our favorite emails from completed campaigns. It represents our baseline expectations for a new graphic designer’s ability: https://flowium.com/design/.

Responsibilities

Manage team of designers: hiring, training, providing feedback, preparing and conducting regular trainings in creative teams.
Develop and build graphic materials for our client's email campaigns and flows in Email Service Provider (ESP).
Design & develop email templates, including icon / UI creation and GIFs
Design, then build email templates directly in the Klaviyo builder or other ESP (No hard-coded HTML)
QA testing emails (dark mode, mobile, outlook, etc.)
Design banners and other graphics using copy provided by our team of copywriters
Note that this is a client facing role

High-level breakdown of daily tasks

Leading team of Designers - 30%
Design of email templates - 30%
Design of ongoing client campaigns - 30%
Communication / Coordination / Meeting - 10% [via Asana, Slack, and Email]

Required Experience & Skills

3-5 years of experience in leading creative teams
Abilities in sharing knowledge, leading trainings and being a coach
Motivational skills
Expert-level experience in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, or similar
Understanding of dark mode and how to QA test and adjust email designs accordingly.
Detail-oriented with a great eye for design—you can follow brand guides, content outlines, copy documents, etc.
Knowledge of HTML/CSS to pull clients’ colors and fonts from their web pages (no coding needed).
Ability to prioritize your workload to accommodate clients that need a quick turnaround.
Open to feedback and critique—you should be curious and excited to improve.
Ability to work comfortably with brand guides and style guides without direct client interaction.
Comfortable interfacing with clients in Zoom meetings, presenting designs, and taking live feedback during meetings.

Nice to Have (but not required)

Other forms of leading experience
Light retouching skills are helpful (e.g., Photoshop).
Experience working as a Digital or Graphic designer at an agency or in-house for a direct-to-consumer e-commerce brand.
Experience working with web-based apps (Sketch, Figma, Google Fonts, Typekit).
Knowledgeable and up-to-date on current email best practices
Experience with creating social media graphics.
Experience with Klaviyo or other ESPs (Email Service Providers).
Experience with video editing to create short GIFs for emails using content pulled from stories or YouTube videos.

What We Offer

Remote Opportunity

You will join a global team that is 100% location independent and exclusively uses remote collaboration. As a self-motivated and responsible individual, you will be free to work from any location.

Open Time Off Policy

We want our team members to maintain a flexible and healthy lifestyle with an overall work-life balance.

We support team members in managing their own time, including Paid Time Off. We’re proud to offer an Open Paid Time Off Policy where time off is not micromanaged or limited. We trust and respect our team members in their commitment to the overall success of Flowium.

Cutting Edge Technology

We use the best tools available to make your process as smooth and as comfortable as possible. These include Asana, Slack, Loom, Miro, and Klaviyo. If you’re not familiar with a tool we rely on, don’t worry -- we’ll make you an expert.

Develop Your Skills

We encourage professional growth daily. We offer professional development reimbursements on courses, books, subscriptions, and more. Flowium makes it easy to continue your personal and professional growth.

How to Apply

Start your application on our website right here! We look forward to hearing from you.

CTA: https://flowium.typeform.com/to/UGsmbmHv

Next Steps

Application Form

Fill out the application on our site (don’t worry, it’s pretty painless) (up to 30 mins).

Application Form Review

We’ll take a look at your submission and get in touch within five days to schedule an interview if you’d fit in at Flowium!

Interview Your first interview is with a Flowium Recruiter. We’ll arrange a second meeting with a Creative Director if you proceed forward.
Test Task

We’ll ask you to choose a brand and design a campaign for them in Klaviyo. We’ll send an explanation so you know what we’re looking for. Then you’ll have 24 hours to complete the copy.

Offer

We’ll offer you the job and begin onboarding if all goes well!

👇👇Apply here👇👇

CTA: https://flowium.typeform.com/to/UGsmbmHv

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