Marketing Designer (CNET Group)
Description
Job Description - Marketing Designer (CNET Group)
The Opportunity:
The CNET Group Design Team is looking for a Marketing Designer to join the Revenue Product squad.
In this role, you will collaborate on the design and management of digital advertising and rich media creative that capture the style of our flagship brands (CNET, ZDNET, Mashable, PCMag, Lifehacker, and more), and clients. The role is ideally suited for a designer with strong organizational and production skills. You’ll work alongside some of the most inventive minds in the industry, with partners in product management, engineering, brand, and marketing.
You, our dream candidate is a self-starter who’s obsessed with creating high-quality visual ad experiences and improving production processes. Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills are a must.
This role reports to the Team Lead, Revenue Product Marketing
Key Responsibilities:
As a Marketing Designer, you collaborate at various stages of projects. You can deliver quality design solutions while also demonstrating a well-rounded sense of skills ranging from project management to time management. Which is to say, at CNET Group you need to be game for anything. A solid sense of humor doesn’t hurt, either.
- You’ll raise the bar on quality by delivering consistent, visually compelling creative within brand guidelines.
- You’ll manage and improve our digital ads production process and assets management. You will often work directly with stakeholders from Brand, Marketing and Merchandising.
- Create custom rich media display advertising units on behalf of leading global brands, which run primarily on CNET Group properties and our network sites.
- You translate User Experience principles into well-formatted creative that resonates with humans. You lead refinements to ad copy, calls to action and creative specs that produce ad experiences that are enjoyable, not annoying.
- You understand that digital ads and rich media are part of the complete product experience. We aim to create coherent experiences for our users, and you account for this in the design and production process.
- You prepare finished creative for deployment through various channels.
- You’ll collaborate on the development of new ad products, templates, and formats.
- Helps contribute to general team collateral, deck templates, internal project logos or other creative projects when needed.
Job Qualifications:
- 3+ years of professional experience as a graphic designer
- Demonstrated expertise in visual hierarchy, layout, typography and color
- Understanding of user-centered design methodologies
- Expert in current design tools like Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
- Knowledge of Asana and Google Ad Manager
- Comfort with tight deadlines and staggered assignments
- Ability to prioritize competing opportunities, and manage tradeoffs effectively
- Excellent relationship management skills and an ability to communicate
- Ability to create animated gifs and other motion graphics
Note:
- This is a remote role and is based in India . The working hours are : USA EST Time Zone (6:00 PM IST - 3:00 AM IST)
- Please send your resume and portfolio with your submission.
About CNET
CNET Group, is a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc., is a leading global digital-media company operating in three core verticals: Technology, Gaming, and Shopping. Its brands – PCMag, Mashable, RetailMeNot, Speedtest, ExtremeTech, IGN, AskMen, Offers.com, TechBargains, emedia and Salesify – produce and distribute premium content across multiple platforms and devices. CNET Group delivers advertising, performance marketing, data services and licensing solutions to thousands of clients worldwide. CNET Group publishes in 26 languages and successfully partners with local publishing operators across 115 countries.
About Ziff Davis
Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD) is a vertically focused digital media and internet company whose portfolio includes leading brands in technology, shopping, gaming and entertainment, connectivity, health, cybersecurity, and martech. Today, Ziff Davis is focused on seven key verticals – Technology, Connectivity, Shopping, Entertainment, Health & Wellness, Cybersecurity and Marketing Technology. Its brands include IGN, Mashable, RetailMeNot, PCMag, Humble Bundle, Spiceworks, Ookla (Speedtest), RootMetrics, Everyday Health, BabyCenter, Moz, iContact and Vipre Security.
Our Benefits
[Division] offers competitive salaries in addition to robust, health and wellness-focused benefits. We are committed to work-life balance with paid time off when you need it.
At Ziff Davis, we remain dedicated to creating an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to succeed. We offer Employee Resource Groups, company-sponsored events, and regular opportunities for professional growth through educational support, mentorship programs, and career development resources. Our employees are recognized and celebrated through employee engagement programs and recognition awards.
If you're seeking a dynamic and collaborative work environment where you can see the direct impact of your performance and thrive both personally and professionally, then [Division] is the place for you.
Ziff Davis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. At Ziff Davis, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has always been about fairness, equal opportunity, and belonging. DEI enables us to attract and retain the best talent, regardless of background or circumstances, while enabling our thousands of employees worldwide to thrive.