Senior Designer, Growth
Ollie was born with the mission of improving the lives of pets and pet parents nationwide. We make human-grade pet food, tailored for each dog’s nutritional needs, and deliver directly to our customers’ doors. Through Ollie’s carefully crafted meals and health services for members, dogs can truly live their healthiest, happiest lives.
As a member of our growing team, you’ll take part in a company culture that cares deeply about its work and its team members.
As Senior Designer, Growth, you will work directly with our Creative Studio Manager and extended Marketing team to disrupt a $30 billion industry. You love collaborating with a team and using creativity and data to develop insight led campaigns. Your creative and design expertise will help the team achieve its mission to get Ollie into the bowls of pets everywhere.
This role will report to our Creative Studio Manager and is based remotely in the US.
What You'll Do:
- Develop bold, compelling and breakthrough creative for our digital marketing channels that drive customer acquisition
- Support ongoing performance marketing channel needs by concepting creative, proactively seeking out performance results and quickly pivoting to improve performance
- Work cross functionally with all channel managers to translate their learning and goals into compelling, on brand creative. Think of outside of the box ideas that will engage the consumer.
- Lead brainstorming sessions to generate creative ideas for campaigns, ensuring they are data driven and aligned with business objectives.
- Be a strategic partner who can conceptualize and communicate ideas visually. Collaborate with the marketing team to develop innovative strategies for brand awareness, customer acquisition, and retention.
- Oversee all freelance and outside agency work to make sure it fits within our brand guidelines
- Support the development and production process for packaging and print materials.
- Partner with Product team to ensure consistency between organic and performance channels, landing pages and website
- Support Ollie’s business through recurring channel needs, such as promotional and lifecycle emails and promotional banners
- Develop and execute creative concepts for marketing campaigns, ensuring they align with growth marketing strategies and best practices within the ecommerce space.
- Partner with various project owners on the marketing team to Implement creative testing methodologies to optimize design and improve customer engagement and conversion rates.
- Analyze performance metrics and user feedback to continuously improve and evolve creative content.
- Stay up to date with industry trends, competitor activities, and emerging technologies to keep our creative approach fresh and relevant.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior designers.
- Develop and maintain a strong understanding of Ollie’s brand voice, visual identity, and brand guidelines ensuring consistency across all channels.
Who You Are:
- BA in graphic design or related area
- Organized with the ability to manage numerous projects, tight deadlines, revisions or shifts in direction effectively
- Able to translate business goals into innovative, meaningful, and differentiated brand assets
- Strong presentation skills with an ability to communicate clearly and concisely
- A collaborator and self-starter with experience managing one or multiple direct reports.
- Ability to operate at a fast pace, with no ego
- Experience concepting and designing campaigns across all digital marketing channels
- Experience designing for ecommerce and direct to consumer brands, with a deep understanding of best practices within the marketing and ecommerce space.
- Experience with packaging and print
- Demonstrated experience in growth marketing and utilizing data driven insights to inform creative decision making.
- Skilled in creative testing to refine and enhance campaign effectiveness.
- Refined design sensibility, aware of current design trends to continue to elevate Ollie’s perspective to remain relevant
- Proficient knowledge of Adobe CS, video editing software, organizing files and utilizing metadata processes within DAM systems
- This is not a checklist, so if you don’t have all of these, apply anyway!
What You'll Get:
- Competitive salary and a stake in the company
- Sponsored 401k program with employer match up to 4%
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental and vision
- Unlimited vacation policy that you're encouraged to use
- Paid parental leave
- 1-week paw-ternity leave for new dog parents
- Free Ollie subscription
- Inspiring pack members!
What We Value:
Keeping Dogs At The Heart
Our profound love for dogs unites us and drives and inspires every aspect of our business. We wholeheartedly believe dogs make us better in life and at work.
Being Courageous And Kind
We create a safe, inclusive space for everyone to show up as their authentic selves. We check our egos at the door and speak our minds. We embrace diverse backgrounds and perspectives as they bring new and different ideas and ways of working together.
Setting New Standards
We believe in continually raising the bar, never settling for less than our best as a team and individuals. We keep improving from the quality of our products to our customer experience to how we work.
Making Ollie The Best Chapter
We are building an impactful business while making memorable experiences with one another. We celebrate our successes, learn from our failures, and enjoy our collective journey. Our time at Ollie should be a milestone in our careers.
If you'd like to stand out, tell us in your cover letter why you're interested in joining Ollie and how your skills match the responsibilities detailed in this posting.
Ollie embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We're committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Ollie is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please include that in your application.