Posted over 4 years ago
Location: Remote, North America preferred
Hi there!
We’re looking for our first Senior Art Director to lead, explore and evolve Zapiers brand and identity. Reporting to the Senior DIrector of Design and “dotted line” to the Senior Director of Integrated Marketing, you’ll define brand attributes, manage and hire visual designers, and partner with our product design teams to ensure consistent creative representation of our brand.
Previous work with SMB/VSB customers and cloud based software providers a strong plus.
If you’re interested in driving your career at a fast-growing and profitable company, read on.
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You have a deep passion for Design and Brand. You have 8+ years working in design roles at agencies or technology companies. Preference for experience in B2B products targeted at the small business market.
You’re a big picture thinker who can also get down in the details. You are able to set the strategic agenda to help Zapier win over the long term. You comfortably navigate across levers in a full marketing mix, designing appropriate solutions for each opportunity. You truly feel ownership over the customer, consumer, and user experiences - driving initiatives through relentless advocacy and being “all in” on helping to develop, influence, and measure execution.
You’ve worked on or led Brand redesign process. You live and breathe brand and its extension into all aspects of the company. You have worked on or led the process of development of a company brand identity, extending to guidelines for all aspects of the brand including product, marketing, advertising, social, events, communications and internal use.
You’re a problem solver at heart. Your are a hypothesis driven problem solver who tests theories with data and can quickly identify levers/sources of value. You know how to pull insights from data and develop an organizational framework to help build/uplevel the function.
You’re a skilled manager, mentor, and coach. You have led teams of 3+ and realize the best way to grow a team is by helping them to grow themselves. You're able to effectively share your experience and provide a clear framework for growth, while managing to objectives and ensuring quality deliverables.
You’re committed to being an awesome teammate. You love to work with cross discipline marketing and stakeholder teams to drive planning, customer and partner focused design and execution. You can effectively build relationships across the organization as an advocate for customers while managing stakeholders to bring the organization along on the journey.
You make good use of data. Passion for incorporating analysis/data as a feedback for learning and development of your teams work. Skill at using data to unearths tangible insights or key learnings to drive team-wide decision making. You are able to frame your solutions for others and turn your approach into organizational frameworks, influencing broader design analysis and a repeatable approach to drive execution.
About Zapier
For the past eight years, Zapier has been helping people across the world automate the boring and tedious parts of their job. We do that by helping everyone connect the web applications they already use and love.
We believe that there are jobs a computer is best at doing and that there are jobs a human is best at doing. We want to empower businesses to create processes and systems that let computers do what they are best at doing and let humans do what they are best at doing.
We believe that with the right tools, you can have big impact with less hassle.
We believe in small teams. Small teams are fast and nimble. Small teams mean less bureaucracy and less management and more getting things done.
We believe in a safe, welcoming, and inclusive environment. All teammates at Zapier agree to a code of conduct.
The Whole Package
Location: Remote
Our team of 200+ is distributed because it lets us work with the best people. You don't have to be located in the USA either. Some team members live in the United Kingdom, Thailand, India, Nigeria, Taiwan, Guatemala, New Zealand, Australia, and more! You just need the skills and drive to succeed in this role and the ability to work from anywhere.
Compensation:
*While we take care of our international folks as best we can, currently, healthcare and retirement plans are only available to US-based employees.Optional: Share anonymously some demographic information about yourself to help us better track trends related to the backgrounds of candidates interested in working at Zapier in order for us to build a team that represents the users at Zapier and the broader world population.
Zapier is an equal opportunity employer. We're excited to work with talented and empathetic people no matter their race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, or age. Our code of conduct provides a beacon for the kind of company we strive to be, and we celebrate our differences because those differences are what allow us to make a product that serves a global user base.