Brand Designer
Description
The Opportunity
The Brand Strategy & Creative team at theSkimm is a group of ambitious and collaborative designers and strategists who define and execute theSkimm’s visual identity. As a Brand Designer, you’ll create designs that support our sales, commerce, marketing needs and editorial products while contributing to the evolution of theSkimm’s brand.
The ideal candidate has a sophisticated aesthetic, strong technical design skills, and thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with sales, brand strategy, creative, commerce, editorial, marketing, and product teams to turn ideas into compelling, polished design solutions across campaigns, presentations, and brand collateral.
- Concept and design pitch decks, RFP responses, and category materials that support the sales team in telling strong stories and pursuing new business.
- Evolve sales and brand templates while developing new, creative approaches for pitching ideas to partners and clients.
- Design post-sale campaign assets, supporting the translation of sold ideas into high-quality creative across newsletters, marketing emails, branded content, and digital placements.
- Design and refine newsletter templates, marketing emails, promotional assets, and business collateral that support both pre-sale storytelling and post-sale delivery, elevate theSkimm’s brand, and drive revenue.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to support the concepting and execution of integrated campaign creative across editorial, commerce, and client initiatives.
- Innovate with the design team to evolve theSkimm’s visual language while maintaining brand consistency.
- Stay current on design trends, tools, and techniques, applying fresh thinking to everyday work.
- Own projects independently while partnering closely with senior designers and cross-functional stakeholders.
Job Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional experience in digital design
- Strong critical thinking and communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with a team, as well as independently
- Self-learning, able to learn new tools quickly and work in a fast-evolving environment
- Expertise in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, with strong technical proficiency in email design and layout.
- Experience expressing a brand identity across all channels and campaigns
- Sophisticated design aesthetic with a passion for typography, strong composition skills, and an understanding of grids and color theory
- Familiarity with creating assets for marketing emails, newsletters, and digital campaigns.
- Solid understanding of branding, growth marketing, and visual storytelling.
- Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work across teams and incorporate feedback effectively.
WHAT WOULD SET YOU APART
- Experience designing for email platforms
- Familiarity with theSkimm’s audience, tone, and brand voice.
- Interest in commerce and editorial design trends targeting millennial women.
- Passion for theSkimm’s mission to simplify life for its audience.
About theSkimm
theSkimm is a digital media company, dedicated to succinctly giving women the information they need to make confident decisions. We’ve made it our mission to help you live smarter. Everyday, we’re breaking down the news, trends, policies, and politics that impact women so that they can navigate their daily lives and futures – from managing their paychecks to casting their ballots – with confidence. We provide our dedicated audience of millions with reliable, non-partisan information, informing and empowering them while fitting into their daily routines.
Life at Everyday Health
At Everyday Health Group, the Health & Wellness division of Ziff Davis, we work in a culture of collaboration and welcome those who desire to join our growing global community. We believe in careers versus jobs and people versus employees. We seek enthusiastic individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit looking for an environment that rewards your best work.
Everyday Health offers competitive salaries in addition to robust, health and wellness-focused benefits, including comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, as well as life and disability benefits. Our employees enjoy Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), a 401(k) with company match, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. We are committed to work-life balance with Flexible Time Off, Volunteer Time Off and paid holidays. We offer family building and caregiving support and generous Family Care and Parental leave, when you need it. We also provide Fitness Reimbursement and access to wellness programs, ensuring our team stays healthy both physically and mentally.
Our Culture and Values
We created our values together to guide our collective purpose and pursuits. We are collaborators and problem solvers. We empower one another to make informed decisions and to be enabled towards action. We embrace success. We recognize that innovation can spark and be born from any of us no matter our individual role or background. We encourage open mindedness and sensitivity to each other and our environment. Our personal and professional passions get ignited, nurtured and supported. We value that doing is greater than talking as the most measurable means of impact. Our collective purpose to deliver enlightened audience experiences with trusted brands is what drives the success of our business and our professional satisfaction.
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.
At Ziff Davis & Everyday Health Group, 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.
Ziff Davis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. At Ziff Davis, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has always been about fairness, equal opportunity and belonging, which enables us to attract and retain the best talent, regardless of background or circumstances, allowing our thousands of employees worldwide to thrive.
The Company provides a range for the base pay. Factors that may be used to determine your actual pay may include your specific job related knowledge, skills, experience and geographic location. The salary compensation for this role is $70,000 to $80,000. Individual pay within the compensation range for this business unit specific role is determined based on a variety of factors including experience, scope of the role, capabilities to perform the role, education and training, as well as business and company performance.
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 Everyday Health Group is the place for you. Everyday Health Group has employees located in 40+ states as well as offices in NYC, Asheville, Boston, London, England and Mumbai, India.