Job Overview

Wink is Mailchimp’s in-house creative team. We are a motley crew made up of 40+ multi-disciplinary creatives who believe creativity has the power to change behaviors and shape the world. We work to create a strong culture, to inspire the underdog, and to help redefine the future of entrepreneurialism. We do all of this by making things that add value and inspire, and things that add relevance, things that ultimately add up to business success for both our customers and our brand. Ad Age named Wink as its In-House Agency of the Year for 2023. Read more about our team here.

We are looking for a highly creative Senior Designer to help us evolve while still staying true to our creative spirit. We are seeking someone who loves design as much as we do — who can consistently inspire design teams to deliver exceptional and thought-provoking work. Your own design work sets an extremely high bar, and acts as an example which designers want to follow. You are constantly pushing the boundaries of design, and always looking for opportunities for provocative collaborations between design disciplines at Mailchimp. Design and Typography is your passion and you can talk Brand Design in your sleep.

About Mailchimp

Intuit Mailchimp is an email and marketing automations platform for growing businesses. We empower millions of customers around the world to start and grow their businesses with world-class marketing technology, award-winning customer support, and inspiring content. Mailchimp puts data-backed recommendations at the heart of your marketing, so you can find and engage customers across email, social media, landing pages, and advertising—automatically and with the power of AI. In 2021, Mailchimp was acquired by Intuit.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates advanced expertise in branding and marketing principles, guiding and educating teams on strategies, methods, and techniques.

• Crafts clear and comprehensive project briefs and strategy plans. Translates research, market trends, consumer behavior, and audience engagement into actionable plans and roadmaps that align with brand goals and objectives.

• Crafts visually stunning and compelling design systems that effectively meet business objectives across various mediums, formats, and platforms. Elevates the quality and effectiveness of brand assets and guidelines.
• Expertly educates and communicates the proper use of assets across various mediums, formats, and platforms. Pushes boundaries through skillful use of visual design, typography, color theory, layout, and composition.
• Work on projects from start to finish
• Work collaboratively with cross-disciplinary design teams to build systemic branding
• Lead small to medium sized projects and work-streams on large projects
• Push MC design forward by bringing in brilliant creative ideas and amazing
• Give constructive direction and guidance to the designers working with
• Work seamlessly with producers and accounts
• Report to the Design Director
• Deliver work that pushes our brand to be more creatively proactive
• Challenging yourself and others to get the best out of each other
• Always connecting the solution to strategy
• Encourage debate around the work

Qualifications

• An inventive, original, ambitious, surprising thinker who is able to generate a truckload of ideas and make a lot of
• Excellent on the craft and detail – nothing gets past
• Know how to create systematic solutions and frameworks for projects, experiences, products and services
• Comfortable engaging with the strategic dimension of our work and challenging a brand strategy framework into a creative solution.
• Strong ability to make confident design decisions by taking a persuasive approach with stakeholders
• Great at organizing and prioritizing yours and others' workload
• Strong on content as well as visuals
• Ability to excite and inspire people around you to earn their respect and
• Generous, able to share ownership
• Committed, determined and tenacious enough to see things
• Easy on your colleagues, but very tough on the work