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Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.
Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.
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The Opportunity at Culture Amp
Who are we looking for?
We’re looking for an experienced design leader to join Culture Amp’s marketing practice to drive the design evolution of Culture Amp’s marketing website (UI / UX design) and multi-channel digital marketing campaigns. You will work closely with cross-functional marketing teams to introduce the brand and product to new and existing audiences. \
You are a creative leader and digital design expert, who brings curiosity to everything you do. You know how to tell an engaging story and skillfully take stakeholders and collaborators on the journey with you. You’re equipped with strong conceptual thinking skills and have experience bringing creative ideas to life through polished execution and scalable design systems, leading and guiding a team and instilling best practices. A successful design lead brings together innovative ideas, design thinking, craft and collaboration to drive successful projects and outcomes.
The Team
Creative is an integral part of Culture Amp and design is instrumental in creating memorable and impactful brand experiences, connecting our audiences with Culture Amp’s mission of creating a better world of work. This is an opportunity to be part of a highly cross-functional marketing team and have a measurable and meaningful impact on the company’s growth trajectory.
What you'll need to be successful
- 7+ years of experience working as a designer within a marketing function client-side or equivalent agency experience. Experience working in a fast-growth business is highly desirable
- A portfolio that shows strong strategic thinking, creativity and the application of design systems for digital marketing across user interface and user experience design, multi-channel demand generation campaigns, and content marketing
- 2+ years of hands-on experience leading a multidisciplinary creative or design team to deliver complex creative projects end-to-end ; managing workloads, guiding high quality design delivery and coaching direct reports
- Experience managing contractors, and creative agency partnerships to deliver growth results across digital marketing channels at scale, including implementing testing and research insights and managing the localization of digital and content production
- Deep digital design knowledge and an interest in driving creative technology and innovation to optimize and scale design processes, templatize production and improve efficiencies within creative workflows
- Creative problem-solving and critical thinking skills to connect and simplify complex ideas and evolving project requirements
- Excellent judgment in decision-making, managing, and communicating trade-offs when collaborating with multiple stakeholders
- Excellent organization and communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate the ‘why’, and lead discussions around your process, explorations, and conclusions
- A growth mindset and drive to continually experiment with new ideas, develop and improve your skills and team output
- A passion for managing, mentoring designers, and growing design capability
- Required technical skills and program competencies:
- High proficiency with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) and web CMS platforms / publishing. Familiarity with project management and marketing tooling, for example - Slack (comms), Asana (project management), Hubspot (email marketing), Canva or similar (templates and brand enablement)
What you'll be doing
- Manage a small creative team, contractors, and agency partners to deliver impactful creative and set new standards for brand and marketing design systems at Culture Amp
- Partner with brand and demand marketing leaders to steer the evolution of cultureamp.com and key digital properties. Oversee design delivery standards and ongoing UI/ UX optimization of this core digital marketing channel
- Drive the development of audience-focused creative (buyer, customer, segment, industry, region profiles) for campaign and multi-channel marketing initiatives to meet business targets
- Partner with demand generation teams to develop and test creative formats for channel and performance marketing, continuously monitoring and leveraging insights to optimize user flows, content formats and creative impact
- Partner with marketing functions (demand generation, regional, product, brand marketing) to contribute to cross-functional planning and strategy discussions and advise on creative resource management to achieve project and business goals
- Inspire, motivate, and collaborate with mixed creative disciplines; designers, illustrators, photographers, motion designers, and video editors to develop high-quality creative and provide feedback and clear guidance on execution to the team
- Present a vision, concepts, and solutions to stakeholders, communicate the impact of design in solving business problems, rationalize decisions, and incorporate feedback
- Facilitate creative workshops and ideation sessions with your team and collaborators to drive research, experimentation, and continuous learning
- Mentor, develop, and grow passionate designers to hone their craft and contribute to building a network of contractors and agency partners as the company scales
You are
- A collaborative leader and creative thinker. You understand what it takes to bring a diverse group of people together to bring new ideas to life
- You are prepared to get in and deliver work. You are equally comfortable with design execution as you are leading a team to deliver the work
- Progress over perfection. You are someone who is comfortable taking initiative and operating in an exciting but at times ambiguous environment with tight deadlines
For this role, the estimated base salary range is listed below. In addition to base salary, your compensation package will include additional components such as equity and benefits. For sales roles, your package may also include sales commission
The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual skills, capabilities and experience, objectively assessed during the interview process. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.
We believe in fair & equitable pay at Culture Amp, and therefore, we build pay equity into all our programs in addition to conducting annual pay equity audits.
We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:
- Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
- Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
- Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
- Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
- Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
- Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
- Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
- Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
- 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
- MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
- Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)
Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place.
We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.
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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.
We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!
Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it.
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