Senior Brand Designer, Communications

About the Brand team

We’re a tight-knit, collaborative group on a mission to make Thumbtack famous. You’ll report to the Creative Director, while working closely with other designers, writers and communicators to develop a cohesive brand identity to be used internally and externally across multiple platforms. Champion of the brand aesthetic, you'll partner with stakeholders across Internal Communications, PR and Employer Brand to create and maintain a cohesive brand across a number of different internal and external touchpoints.

About the Comms team

Global Communications is a team of storytellers working to share the Thumbtack mission, brand, and experience across a number of different key groups: our own employees, external audiences (i.e., media, influencers, industry) and candidates. As well as across numerous platforms via a number of different methods. We help make what Thumbtack does understood by as many people as possible; whether that is around our future vision, how the product works, the benefits of using Thumbtack, our culture, engaging stories about our customers and pros, or even members of our own team.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Brand Designer who has a breadth of skills across design disciplines. We need someone who thrives on owning a variety of projects big and small. In this unique role, you will be part of our Brand & Creative team but embedded within our Communications function to support all visual communications needs, bringing a cohesive internal brand to life and owning it across comms channels and touchpoints. You’ll work closely with our Internal Comms, PR and Employer Brand teams to execute against an aligned strategy to elevate our visual storytelling through internal and external presentation design, engaging video campaigns, motion graphics, and more. On a typical day, you could be working directly with PR and our CPO to develop a deck for an external speaking opportunity, create a number of fun header graphics for the stories being published on TackHub (our intranet) that week, working on some product mockups for a press release, collaborating with Employer Brand to create eye-catching graphics that appeal to future candidates on LinkedIn, or putting the finishing touches on a short employee video by finding the perfect tune as the bow on top. You’re a self-starter and an outside-the-box thinker who loves the challenge of translating a brief into world-class creative and isn’t afraid to take risks and try new things.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and ownership of aligned internal brand assets
• Presentation design for all company-wide meetings and external speaking opportunities
• Own all design assets for company blog, intranet, newsletters, meetings, infographics, media kits, and more!
• Must be comfortable working with b-roll, product videos and GIFs
• You will find yourself collaborating closely with exec-level leadership on internal and external efforts
• You’ll be responsible for managing project intake, creating timelines, and facilitating rounds of feedback with partners
• Support Brand Creative when required.

What you’ll need

If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.

• 5+ years of professional design experience at an agency or in-house 
• Strong portfolio that shows strategic and design thinking with superb attention to detail in typography, composition and overall craft
• Presentation design and production design experience   
• Some experience in photo/video art direction, motion graphics, and video editing (e.g. proficiency of basic platforms like iMovie and/or Adobe Premiere)
• Experience working within existing brand guidelines. You also know when and how to flex them, pushing the bounds of creative while remaining true to the brand
• You are a reliable self-starter who can handle multiple projects with minimal oversight and posses strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills
• Expert level understanding of tools like Figma, Adobe CC, and presentation tools like Keynote, Slides and PowerPoint

Bonus points if you have

• Experience taking campaigns through from concept to execution
• A great sense of humor that comes alive in the work you do

Thumbtack is a virtual-first company, meaning you can live and work from any one of our approved locations across the United States, Canada or the Philippines. Learn more about our virtual-first working model here.

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