Brand/Creative Designer - Remote

Overview

At Automattic, we believe in making the web a better place. We’re the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, WordPress VIP, and more, and we’re looking for seasoned Brand/Creative Designers to keep the web free and open with us.

You’ll join a diverse design team and work closely with marketers, engineers, and customer support from around the world in a fully remote company to launch creative marketing and brand work, supporting products that make online publishing and commerce accessible to everyone.

In Short

• Work independently and collaboratively on exceptional concepts, creative ideas, and visual design for marketing campaigns to promote our brands across various digital and traditional channels and mediums.
• Actively evolve and contribute to brand and marketing design systems, creative templates, and style guides to help our brand design team grow our skills and scale our practice.
• Work closely with the marketing and business teams on the development and validation of projects directly related to growing the business.
• Collaborate regularly with engineers and product designers to ship consistent, high-quality experiences across marketing and product.
• Manage and oversee project work with external creative contractors.
• Communicate and share often in written, verbal, and visual forms to create alignment and move the work towards implementation.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in brand and marketing creative design working on consumer brands or products in an agency or in-house environments.
• A design portfolio with examples of brand and web design work showing your keen eye for good design and attention to detail.
• Proactive attitude in leading big design changes and being comfortable to challenge the status quo.
• Ability to take projects from creation to final execution, managing and prioritizing multiple projects with various stakeholders.
• Strategic problem-solving skills and a capacity to switch between creative storytelling and systems thinking.
• Experience creating or working with existing illustrations is a plus.
• A genuine interest and familiarity with some of our products and the open-source community.
• Familiarity with remote work (or excitement to try it!).

Benefits

• We’re a global, distributed workforce in over 90 countries.
• We value open source, prioritize transparent communication, and encourage collaboration across positions and roles.
• We have no set hours, or expectation that you’re online from 9 to 5.
• You create a schedule that allows you to get your best work done.
• We travel sometimes to meet up and work together.
• Open vacation policy.