Graphic Designer, Direct Response

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Do you want to design direct to consumer content for one of the world’s most recognizable brands and the amazing brands we work with? Are you the kind of person who wants their work to be seen by thousands of people, or would you prefer millions? AND do you enjoy collaborating with some of the best creatives the industry has to offer? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of those questions, introductions are in order.

We are Ad Hock. Visa's internal creative agency. Just as Visa founder Dee Hock revolutionized the way we pay, Ad Hock is taking a new approach to the internal creative team by developing a fully functional advertising agency in-house. We create high-visibility content to support every layer of the funnel to ultimately high drive direct response rates. Our clients are the biggest brands in banking, retail, fintech and just about anything else you can imagine, and they need our help to reach their audience with impactful creative. That’s where you’ll step in!

Our agency is rapidly expanding, and we’re looking for a Graphic Designer specializing in Direct Response channels including email, digital, direct mail, and other advertising collateral to join a growing team that will add lifecycle and direct response marketing to our portfolio of offerings.

The ideal candidate has strong design skills across a range of channels, a passion for creating beautiful work, and a growth mindset that drives the desire to constantly improve. You use a mix of consumer insights, behaviors, and context to help craft holistic journeys with your target audience at top of mind. You’ll be joining an expanding team of creatives to produce personalized direct response email, direct mail, landing pages, and digital campaigns for Visa’s largest clients in the banking, fintech, financial services, and merchant sectors. You have a strong skill and passion for layouts, composition, and graphic design fundamentals to maximize effectiveness for our clients. You can adapt quickly to rapidly changing priorities and thrive in a dynamic, growing environment. You can seamlessly balance maintaining brand guidelines while offering fresh design perspectives. You are an open minded, empathetic collaborator who can build relationships with a wide range of people.

This San Francisco-based role sits on the creative team and reports to a New York-based Creative Director, so the ideal candidate must be able to work autonomously and communicate efficiently, but don’t worry, you’ll have a team of creatives with you in SF to lean on too.

This is an opportunity to join the Go-to-Market team within Visa’s North America Marketing organization. You’ll be working with the best and brightest marketing, brand, and advertising teams the industry has to offer. Come join us!

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across teams: Support and work closely with internal teams such as Client Marketing Services, Creative, Media, and Marketing Delivery to align strategies and deliver work that considers the needs of multiple stakeholders, problem-solving cross-functionally as needed

• Maintain strong relationships: build rapport and maintain positive working relationships with partners and clients

• Communication: Effective, efficient, and dynamic communicator who can distill complex ideas and listen empathetically to the needs of our partners and clients. You are not afraid to ask questions, voice concerns or identify roadblocks and are able to do so quickly and thoughtfully

• Paying the bills: You will create a lot of direct response marketing including emails, digital assets, direct mail packages, social posts, and landing pages, with some light motion graphics depending on needs that supports client marketing strategies to drive acquisition, engagement, and retention

• Creative: Desire and ability to challenge the status quo while maintaining thoughtful, consistent creative quality that adheres to design principles and client guidelines, actively participate in strategy discussions, concept & design brainstorms

• Manage multiple projects and priorities: Brainstorming. Revising. Executing. You’ll be asked to do all these things and must know when to use the creative process to deliver f