Senior Creative II - Visual Design

Summary

Join Wealthfront's Creative Team as a Senior Creative II, reporting to the Creative Director, Visual. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create engaging brand assets for campaigns, product launches, and complex financial products. Success requires strategic insight, impeccable execution, and a knack for surprising and engaging design. The ideal candidate is passionate about Wealthfront's mission, detail-oriented, a team player, resourceful, and experienced in creating memorable marketing materials across various media. The role involves leading creative initiatives, fostering strong relationships, and contributing to strategic insights. Wealthfront offers a remote-friendly work environment and competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Believe in our mission. You know that money can be both intimidating and empowering, and you feel invested in our vision of how well-managed finances can reduce worry and enable our clients to live their lives more fully
• Sweat the small stuff. You recognize that the line between ok and exceptional can be very, very thin, and you’re innately driven to stay on the correct side of it
• Make considered decisions in your work, can defend your creative choices, and are ready to revise your opinions in the face of compelling arguments because you care—deeply—about making the work the best it can be
• Have high expectations for yourself and the people around you
• Expect your work to serve the team. You know that your way isn’t always the right way, and you’re eager to find a way to contribute, even when it might be outside your typical skill set
• Understand there’s always more you can learn, and you look forward to opportunities to add to your creative arsenal
• Are resourceful and enterprising. You think like an owner, are solutions-oriented, and adapt quickly to the constraints and challenges of a nimble team in a fast-paced, rapidly growing business
• Create memorable, engaging things that might-or-might-not look like marketing. You have experience finding the moments that bring a brand to life
• Are happy designing for matchbooks, Instagram ads, emails, webpages, and everything both in between and beyond. Whether big or small, you look for ways to intersect consumers’ lives to communicate a brand truth in a way that feels relevant, authentic, and memorable

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex creative initiatives with a keen understanding of business objectives
• Foster strong relationships with marketing and business teams to streamline collaboration and develop new strategic opportunities
• Contribute to and refine strategic insights, enhancing the creative development process
• Dive into briefing and research materials to develop informed perspectives on creative challenges and advocate for exceptional client experiences at every step of the creative process
• Share knowledge, mentor and guide other team members to achieve their full potential
• Oversee campaigns from concept to delivery, incorporating stakeholder feedback effectively
• Deliver multiple strategic directions for each creative phase, testing our assumptions and uncovering surprising solutions
• Take on projects with ambiguous or non-specific deliverables, driving them from concept to execution
• Collaborate with team members to evolve brand expressions and maintain brand consistency
• Craft tailored messages and innovative executions across various media formats

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years as a visual designer in an agency, studio, or in-house creative team
• A strong background and passion for digital creative, from production of web experience to directing motion design
• Experience adapting consistent and effective visual expressions across digital, print, video, social, and non-traditional media
• Direct experience working with a research team, or using performance data to inform creative decisions
• Technical motion production skills with After Effects (or a similar program)
• Illustration or drawing skills

Benefits

• Remote-friendly team and open to candidates in the US and parts of Canada—with opportunities to meet and collaborate in-person for occasional company and team-specific events
• Estimated annual salary: ~$160,000 USD, plus equity
• Medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount