Brand Design Lead

Woo, the company behind the world’s most popular e-commerce platform, is looking for an experienced creative leader with an art direction background to join our design team. 

This role combines creative strategy with creative management. You’ll lead a small team of designers while working on hands-on concepts, creative strategy, and brand-building work. 

As part of the Automattic family, Woo is fully distributed, with no physical offices. The flexibility and autonomy that come with working from home are in our DNA–we provide benefits and resources to support your growth while doing your best work from anywhere in the world. We have a huge footprint, but we’re a small company. That means everyone here has the opportunity to make a visible, profound, and lasting difference while helping the store owners who rely on Woo every day.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of experienced designers, supporting in prioritizing tasks during all project phases, from definition to development, as well as contributing to design projects.
• Work directly with Woo and Design’s leadership to define how the product, marketing, and brand come together.
• 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 product designers and engineers to ship consistent, high-quality experiences across marketing and products.
• 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 toward implementation.
• Actively contribute to the greater design org at Automattic, surfacing, connecting, and providing input to work across various design teams.

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.
• Experience owning relationships with external agencies and directing their work.
• Comfort working with marketing stakeholders, other creatives, developers, and other partners to produce outstanding work.
• Excellent design and art direction skills for brand and marketing and experience with all standard industry tools and processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills—you’ll collaborate with others and present your work regularly in a written format.
• Experience managing art directors, designers, video teams, and other creatives, guiding them in their craft and mentoring them in their careers.
• Experience in managing and communicating expectations, as well as providing feedback to a remote team.
• As a plus, you have some experience in e-commerce: you’ve worked on e-commerce/DTC accounts, have actually made and sold something yourself, have worked for an e-commerce app or tool, etc.

Salary range: $95,000-$200,000 USD - Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency.

We are searching for high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for Automattic. Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated.

This isn’t your typical work-from-home job—we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. Read more about our compensation philosophy. To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page. And check out these links to learn more about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves.