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We’re hiring an Brand Designerto join our Design team full-time in NY.
About our team and what we’ll build together
theSkimm makes it easier to live a smarter life. We started as two friends on a couch and have since purchased more couches and gotten new friends, er... employees. Skimm HQ works hard but knows when to take breaks and when it's time to update the Spotify playlist. We drink the kool-aid but know we're drinking it. Through our suite of products, we are disrupting routines and information consumption one Skimm'r at a time. Come join us, we're changing things.
The Brand Strategy & Creative team at theSkimm is a group of ambitious and collaborative designers and strategists who define and execute theSkimm’s visual identity. As a Brand Designer, you’ll create designs that support our commerce marketing needs and editorial products while contributing to the evolution of theSkimm’s brand.
The ideal candidate has a sophisticated aesthetic, strong technical design skills, and thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
How you’ll contribute to our mission
- Collaborate with the commerce, editorial, marketing and product teams to create dedicated marketing emails, campaign materials, promotional assets, and product designs that resonate with theSkimm’s audience, while also supporting post-sale design needs for sales teams
- Ensure theSkimm’s brand styles and voice is represented in all projects
- Design and refine newsletter templates, sales decks, pitch materials, and business collateral that align with theSkimm’s brand, enhance readability, and drive revenue.
- Mock up and optimize campaign experiences and designs, iterating based on performance insights to ensure impactful results.
- Staying up to date on design trends to ensure our materials feel fresh, modern, and relevant.
- Present clear and compelling ideas to stakeholders, while managing expectations
You’re ready for this! Here’s a bit more about what we’re looking for
- 3+ years of professional experience in digital design
- Strong critical thinking and communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with a team, as well as independently
- Self-learning, able to learn new tools quickly and work in a fast-evolving environment
- Expertise in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, with strong technical proficiency in email design and layout.
- Experience expressing a brand identity across all channels and campaigns
- Sophisticated design aesthetic with a passion for typography, strong composition skills, and an understanding of grids and color theory
- Familiarity with creating assets for marketing emails, newsletters, and digital campaigns.
- Solid understanding of branding, growth marketing, and visual storytelling.
- Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work across teams and incorporate feedback effectively.
What would set you apart
- Experience designing for email platforms
- Familiarity with theSkimm’s audience, tone, and brand voice.
- Interest in commerce and editorial design trends targeting millennial women.
- Passion for theSkimm’s mission to simplify life for its audience.
Please include a link to an online or PDF portfolio with your application.
This role's expected annual base salary is $75,000-$85,000. We’ll consider a variety of factors when determining the offered base salary, including an evaluation of a candidate’s skills, abilities, experience, location, market demands, and internal parity.
Why we love working here
We are mission driven and values driven:
We are collectively building an impactful brand to empower generations of informed, confident women. Our vision is for every woman to have the info they need to navigate a complex world and the decisions in it. Every role has a purpose and allows us to provide useful information succinctly and contextualized. We tee her up to take action - whichever action is right for her, wherever she is.
We are values driven at every point - how we work, the way we work and our culture come straight from our core values. Each of us supports this incredible brand and takes part in its continued growth, fulfilling the needs of our audience each and every day.
We put you and your personal lives first - we have a generous benefits policy that demonstrates we are listening to what our employees need:
- Unlimited vacation policy and generous holiday observances
- Encouraged days off on your birthday and your work anniversary (Skimm’versary)
- A hybrid working model with flexibility for remote work
- Comprehensive insurance plans and commuter benefits
- Auto-enrollment into an Empower 401(k) plan starting on your first day and employer contribution available after one year of employment
- Rewards for every Skimm’versary
- One month paid sabbatical after your five year Skimm’versary as a full-time employee
We support our parents at all points on their journey:
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers (adoption, fostering and surrogacy included)
- Bereavement leave for pregnancy loss
- Phased return to work schedule availability
- Flexibility based on parental schedules
- Access to family building and fertility benefits
- Flexible and broad-scale child support program
Your well being is our priority:
- We honor Sacred Time in our workplace
- We have aligned company “time off” during the summer to truly allow for us all to break from our work at the same time
- We offer fitness membership reimbursement
- We offer subsidized plans to Classpass
- Pet benefits are available for your furry friends
- One Medical Membership is included with our benefits at no cost to you
We have a vibrant, collaborative, and supportive culture (we celebrate and have fun!):
- Weekly company updates led by our leadership team
- Annual employee award ceremony to celebrate individual accomplishments
- Clubs and activities designed to meet other employees like Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), volunteer opportunities, off-sites, and wellness focused classes
- Numerous culture events that enable our workforce, in the office and remote, to connect and have fun
Your career and development are a priority:
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Regular leadership development trainings that are geared toward creating strong and effective leaders
- An internal mobility program designed to give our employees opportunities to grow and explore different career paths
- DEI initiatives to ensure we are the best partners and colleagues to each other
- Career development guidance and planning
And more…
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- The opportunity to be part of a values-driven, hardworking, and diverse group of people building a media company that makes it easier to live smarter
About the office
This is a full-time role based in New York, NY with flexibility for remote work.
Our office is available to use three days a week — Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We have a hybrid environment and ask that full-time employees within the New York Metro area come together in person two days a week. All other days are up to the discretion of the employees during the days that the office will be open.
Our story, Skimm’d
We are a digital media company, dedicated to succinctly giving women the information they need to make confident decisions. We make it easier to live smarter.
At our core, we are writers, editors, producers, designers, marketers, engineers, analysts, sellers, creatives, and strategists all working together to achieve this goal.
Every day we’re breaking down the news, trends, policies, and politics that impact women so that they can navigate their daily lives and futures – from managing their paychecks to casting their ballots – with confidence. We provide our dedicated audience of millions with reliable, non-partisan, information, informing and empowering them while fitting into their daily routines.
Since disrupting the media landscape and defining a new category a decade ago, theSkimm has become a trusted source for its audience of millions by seamlessly integrating into their existing routines, fundamentally changing the way they consume news and make decisions. Today theSkimm ecosystem includes the Daily Skimm, the Daily Skimm: Weekend, Skimm Money and Skimm Your Life newsletters, B2B marketer’s newsletter The SKM Report, the “9 to 5ish with theSkimm” podcast, and theSkimm mobile app. theSkimm also houses Skimm Studios which creates innovative in-house video and audio content, and our in-house creative agency SKM Lab, which conceptualizes, develops, and produces innovative solutions and content for brands to engage with generations of informed women. theSkimm's first book, How to Skimm Your Life,debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. Through Skimm Impact, theSkimm's our purpose-driven platform, the company is dedicated to creating change for women. We are proud to support get-out-the-vote efforts with Skimm Your Ballot, which has spurred over two million voting-related actions across the last four election cycles. We have mobilized hundreds of companies to join our #ShowUsYourLeave movement, which has created transparency and pushed for progress for Paid Family Leave in the U.S. And we’re empowering women to take agency of their lives and control of their futures through our State of Women initiative, grounded in a study conducted by The Harris Poll.
Come join us!
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