Lead Brand Designer

About Faire

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.

By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About this role

As a Lead Brand Designer on our Brand Studio team at Faire, you’ll join a tight-knit, collaborative team of creatives helping bring the Faire brand to life. In this role, you’ll help craft Faire’s brand across lifecycle and performance marketing, and product experiences, taking on a variety of projects that span across product surfaces and experiences, landing pages, emails and newsletters, growth ads and others. Working with team members across design, product, and marketing, you’ll strive to communicate our brand and mission to our customers and craft the experiences that make Faire, Faire.

We’re looking for a seasoned designer with strong photo art direction skills and a multidisciplinary mindset able to deliver superb design work as well as curate high quality photography for our marketplace and growth marketing channels. A storyteller that knows how to inject humanity and stories through design and photography, but is also able to sweat the details and get really serious about the craft and quality of the execution.

Your background would be in brand design or art direction. You would be able to closely collaborate with copywriters, product designers, marketing managers and growth marketing leads in order to create a seamless and high quality customer experience and journey. You would be a proven collaborator who can drive work from brief to launch, and advocate for excellent brand storytelling and masterful craft/quality.

You would work closely with the Retailer Growth team who are a multidisciplinary group of designers and marketers committed to craft a high quality, seamless and personalized experience for our retailers. The role sits within the Brand Studio team who is a multidisciplinary group of creatives dedicated to build and evolve the Faire brand and bring it to life through a myriad of channels and experiences. Brand Studio sits within Faire’s larger design organization, which includes product designers, content designers, and design researchers.

What you’ll do 

• Drive and execute the brand design and photo art direction of our Retailer growth initiatives
• Be a key partner to the Retailer Growth team in building a high quality experience for retailers in and outside of our marketplace.
• Help us grow our retailer base by executing world class performance marketing initiatives and product experiences.
• Elevate the craft of how we tell our stories - particularly in product surfaces and performance marketing campaigns
• Bring freshness, a sense of curation and an editorial approach to our marketplace through photography and design. 
• Build storytelling and humanize the marketplace though carefully curating photography edits to apply to categories, programs and collections. 
• Partner with other Brand Studio team members in establishing principles, quality standards and templates to further build and evolve the Faire brand. 

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a designer or art director executing world-class creative work in the growth, digital, editorial, or ecommerce area with a heavy focus on photography selection and storytelling.
• Portfolio of previous work, that displays an ability to understand brand design systems and photography, and execute them in a variety of outputs, like websites, landing pages, emails, ads, and collateral. 
• Excellent Photography Art direction skills. The ability to follow photography art direction guidelines to make photography edits for categories, campaigns, programs, and stories applied to a variety of outputs.
• Light photo editing/retouching skills. Be able to lightly edit photography to fit in-product modules, email and ad specs and other formatting needs. 
• Excellent presentation and communication skills. Ability to convey creative dec