Graphic Designer - email marketing

We are currently looking for a creative graphic designer with experience designing and building emails in Klaviyo. 

You will be working closely with our email marketing specialists and copywriters to design campaigns, opt-in forms, templates, and other graphic materials for email. It will be your job to use a clients style guide or brand book to create compelling email templates and campaigns. 

You will be working on a ton of different projects for some of the fastest-growing E-commerce businesses in the country. You’ll have an opportunity to play with new design styles, try different visual approaches, and constantly think outside the box.

We have a page devoted to some of our favorite emails from completed campaigns. It represents our baseline expectations for a new graphic designer’s ability.

We are looking for long term, committed individuals who are wanting to establish a career for themselves.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop and build graphic materials for our clients’ email campaigns and flows in Klaviyo

• Design & develop email templates including icon / UI creation and GIFs

• Design email assets, slicing, resizing, and building templates directly in the Klaviyo builder (No hard coded HTML)

• QA testing emails (dark mode, mobile, outlook, etc)

• Design banners and other graphics using copy provided by our team of writers

Here's How Your Week Will Look Like

60%

Design of Klaviyo email templates

30%

Design of on-going client campaigns

10%

Communication / Coordination / Meeting [via Asana, Slack and Email]

Required Skills and Experience

• Expert level experience in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma or similar

• Understanding of dark mode and how to QA test and adjust email designs accordingly

• Detail oriented with a great eye for design—you can follow brand guides, content outlines, copy documents, etc. 

• Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS to pull clients’ colors and fonts from their webpages (no coding needed)

• Ability to prioritize your workload to accommodate clients that need a quick turn-around 

• Open to feedback and critique—you should be curious and excited to improve

• Ability to work comfortably with brand guides and style guides without direct client interaction

Nice to Have (but not required)

• Comfortable interfacing with clients on Zoom meetings, presenting designs and taking live feedback during meetings

• Light retouching skills are helpful (e.g. Photoshop)

• Experience working as a Digital or Graphic designer at an agency or in-house for a direct to consumer e-commerce brand

• Experience working with web-based apps (Sketch, Figma, Google Fonts, Typekit)

• Knowledgeable and up to date on current email best practices

• Experience with creating social media graphics

• Experience with Klaviyo or other ESPs (Email Service Providers)

• Experience with video editing to create short GIFs for emails using content pulled from stories or YouTube videos