Senior Manager, Advertising & Brand Design
At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.
We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
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If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.
Who You Are
Justworks is seeking an entrepreneurial and experienced manager to lead our talented in-house brand design team in developing advertising, communications, brand activations, swag, and collateral that break-through the noise and drive our business, brand, and mission forward.
As the Senior Manager of Advertising & Brand Design, you will report to the Director of Marketing and be responsible for translating business and brand strategy into powerful and purposeful creative concepts and assets that support touch points along the prospect and customer journey. You have experience developing attention-grabbing multi-channel advertising campaigns including social, digital display, OOH, experiential, print, and direct mail. With an eye for aesthetic, you possess the ability to solve big design challenges while sweating the smallest details. You have a strong portfolio of work and understand what it takes to develop great creative plus lead and inspire a team to reach their potential.
Must include cover letter, resume, and portfolio/work samples to be considered.
What You’ll Do
- Leverage customer insights to bring big conceptual ideas to the table that shape the Justworks brand across all media and executions
- Direct the insights gathering, concepting, and execution of all assets for marketing campaigns, including social, digital display, print, OOH, activations, direct mail, swag, and more
- Manage creative production and operations to make sure the organization and reporting of work is consistent, file management is structured and the cost implications of creative decisions are tracked
- Partner closely with marketing leaders and other key stakeholders to ensure creative elevates the brand and delivers on customer acquisition goals
- Oversee the day to day design and execution of collateral and content assets
- Work closely with the Experience Design and Product Design leaders to maintain a cohesive and creative design ethos and approach across all design disciplines at Justworks
- Drive a creative vision and be a source for inspiration across the broader marketing and design teams
- Lead, mentor, and motivate a team of talented designers through understanding business direction and customer needs to concept, plan and executed compelling design assets
- Create and foster a collaborative, innovative and diverse creative environment
- Take on a leadership role within the marketing team and contribute to the overall marketing strategy, plan and prioritization
Qualifications
- 7+ years of design experience at a creative agency or on a brand creative team
- 4+ years of experience delivering brand and performance focused campaigns
- Experience working on B2B brands/products and/or complex industries
- Have a strong interest in and working knowledge of brand development, advertising, and the creative process
- Advanced portfolio with relevant work examples as both an individual and team leader
- Strong conceptual thinker with excellent communication (verbal, written, visual); ability to propose ideas across teams, and contextualize multiple ideas in relation to one another
- Passionate about branding, storytelling, and producing engaging content and campaigns
- Detail-oriented and excellent project manager; able to prioritize and manage multiple work streams and team members to adhere to critical timelines
- Must be able to thrive in a fast paced environment and comfortable operating without all the answers
- Scrappy, resourceful - you don't need big budgets or huge teams to deliver remarkable work, you are excited to dive into the weeds and take on execution where necessary
- Knowledge of the latest design tools
Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
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