Principal Marketing Designer

Summary

Join ClassDojo, a leading educational technology company, as a hands-on design leader responsible for overseeing all marketing and brand design. You will lead a small team, setting a high bar for creativity and execution across various mediums, from webpages to email campaigns. This role requires 10+ years of experience in design leadership, a portfolio showcasing innovative work for established brands, and a strong understanding of design principles. You'll be comfortable working independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. Your work will contribute to shaping the future of education branding, aligning with industry leaders like Disney and LEGO. The position offers the opportunity to work remotely and is committed to equal employment opportunity.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience across any combination of design, art direction, and creative direction leadership roles
• Portfolio of inspiring work for category defining brands that showcases your ability to innovate, craft a singular aesthetic, create compelling marketing experiences, and ship supremely well crafted work
• Comfortable working from fuzzy problems and ambitious goals through broad design exploration, narrower iteration, to pixel perfect final shipped experience
• Comfortable working in a fast paced environment with broad autonomy and ownership

Responsibilities

• Lead design across all marketing and brand work
• Oversee the design of everything from new webpages to product launches to email campaigns, minisites, and everything in between
• Fluidly work across desktop and mobile web, email, in-app modals, as well as occasional printed collateral and conference booth design
• Set an extremely high bar for creativity, performance, detail orientation, and speed of execution
• Oversee and ideally manage a team of designers with an emphasis on pushing their work creatively as a strong thought partner
• Lead by example—first leading yourself well, being self-managing, low maintenance, and self-improving

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on design leader that can span concepting, exploration, and execution across mediums with a focus on digital marketing (web and email)
• Proven experience on world-class teams building category defining brands
• Strong taste and design instincts that balance simplicity and timelessness with creativity and a desire to create something singular (one-of-one)
• Well rounded experience across web, email, print, and other mediums like animation, motion design, 3D, or other visual design spikes
• Extreme attention to detail. Your final designs are flawlessly executed and tend to leave no details unconsidered or unrefined
• Ability to balance speed and urgency with iterative refinement. Especially the ability to move between speed and craft interchangeably as needed
• Strong fundamentals in color, typography, composition, hierarchy, layout, and subtle details that add up to a refined end aesthetic

Benefits

• Remote work
• Salary ranges (United States): CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT states: $180,000 - $215,000 (USD) All other states in the US: $153,000 - $182,750 (USD)