Staff Marketing Designer (Remote, Americas)

Company Description

Shopify is the leading omni-channel commerce platform. Merchants use Shopify to design, set up, and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including mobile, web, social media, marketplaces, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. The platform also provides merchants with a powerful back-office and a single view of their business, from payments to shipping. The Shopify platform was engineered for reliability and scale, making enterprise-level technology available to businesses of all sizes. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Shopify currently powers over 2,000,000 businesses in approximately 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more.

NOTE: Only applicants who submit a portfolio of design work alongside application will be considered.

Job Description

The Shopify Brand and Audience Expansion team is seeking a Staff Marketing Designer to join our cross-discipline Marketing UX team made up of brand and UX/UI designers, content designers, front end developers, and more. Our team’s mission is to help Shopify reach new audiences and empower aspiring entrepreneurs around the world. We’re a diverse team of smart, caring and committed marketing UX specialists. We use a human-centered approach to design breakthrough experiences that let more audiences learn and love Shopify. We use design thinking to solve marketing problems, and collaborate within the broader Brand and Audience Expansion group to develop and produce engaging creative work via digital and IRL experiences.. 

The right candidate is a strategic designer and leader with a strong point of view, who is also comfortable getting into the weeds and working directly with their team to build effective marketing experiences for future and current Shopify merchants. As a Staff Marketing Designer, you’ll help shape Shopify’s look and feel across marketing touchpoints, tackling projects that span digital, print, experiential, and more. You’ll champion our brand visuals and voice across the company and will help guide our brand both internally and externally. 

This is a leadership role on our team, though not directly managing people. At Shopify, leaders thrive on change and can navigate ambiguity in order to move our team vision and company mission forward. They operate on trust, leveraging diverse perspectives in everything they do. They must be comfortable working in a cross-functional and fast-paced environment. In this role, you’ll help level up our design team with your advanced visual design skills, deep understanding of how a brand can flex and scale, and your ability to articulate design thinking to your team and stakeholders across the org. 

As a Staff Marketing Designer you’ll lead design projects of significant scope, complexity and responsibility in creative vision, strategy and execution. You’ll work closely with our marketing and product counterparts to shape marketing initiatives and the reach of Shopify the brand. You’ll collaborate with a multidisciplinary development, content, and production team to deliver user-centered, industry-leading design work. 

If this sounds like you, and you’re excited to work in a friendly, collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you. 

Qualifications

• Create compelling brand experiences and industry best practices in a variety of mediums.

• Act as the de facto brand consultant across all marketing touchpoints and projects. You’ll be the source of truth for anything related to the Shopify brand.

• Actively stay on top of industry-wide marketing and design trends, and report on these findings regularly. Ensure our projects are current, noteworthy, or trend-setting.

• Facilitate cross-team communications as they pertain to brand requests, updates, and improvements. Ensure our output always aligns with our business goals.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to develop creative marketing strategies that ladder up to the Shopify master brand. You’ll work with internal teams as well as with external vendors, suppliers, and agencies.

• Provide craft leadership via mentoring and participating in team rituals. You’ll help bring out the best in a designer's individual work and contribute to a great design culture across the organization.

• Be a constant learner and experimenter to help improve your craft.

• Applying strategic thinking to visualize ideas and concepts and communicate them effectively and compellingly.

• You bridge words and visual systems, communicate ideas in a compelling way, and create emotion for our audiences 

• Your designs are data-informed and their impact is measurable.

Leadership

• You’ll be an active mentor for designers, helping lead critiques and design r