Marketing Designer

Wellington, New Zealand

Are you passionate about design, brand and marketing? Love the beauty of your craft? Want to hone your skills while working in a UX research software company that truly values empathetic design in all its forms? We’re looking for a hands-on marketing designer to join our team. You’ll have a fluent understanding of what makes great visual design and a curiosity that drives you to experiment, collaborate, learn new skills, and seek out feedback to make your design better.

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We’re looking for someone with the following:

• 3+ years experience in visual design, with a focus on UI, marketing, brand, graphic, illustration and/or outputs.
• Experience creating easy to use brand guidelines and documentation.
• Experience in print design and production
• Experience in digital design and production
• An ability to work collaboratively with developers on digital marketing projects.
• An understanding of conversion rate optimization, applied through principles of web design.
• Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills.
• A love for crafting great design with an expert eye for detail.
• An ability to prototype and test out your ideas with others, caring about usability and accessibility.
• A desire to grow by seeking constructive feedback and providing it in return;
• Keeps up to date with visual communication trends over time,
• A passion of all things UX.
• A growth mindset, willing to experiment, learn and adapt alongside a fast-growing company.
• A curious, proactive and friendly manner.

Bonus points if you have experience with some the following:

• Photography and art direction. 
• Motion design and production.
• Experience navigating and updating a CMS (We use WordPress).
• An understanding of basic HTML & CSS

On any given day you could be:

• Bringing joy and playfulness into our customer’s lives
• Crafting designs that align with our brand strategy and organisation culture
• Communicating with our customers (and potential customers) through design on a variety of platforms
• Working collaboratively in a passionate team of marketers, developers, and designers
• Implementing beautiful designs that sparks joy throughout the entire customer experience.
• Turning visions and strategic requirements into concepts
• Striving for a highly usable and engaging end-to-end user experience
• Ensuring that our brand assets align with our brand strategy
• Educating non-designers in when, where, why and how to use brand assets
• Applying strategic thinking and demonstrating awareness of business goals
• Socializing and implementing best practices for marketing and brand design, leveraging industry standards
• Supporting the team at Optimal Workshop with their design requirements.

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and accessibility experience are preferred but not essential. Ultimately, we are looking for an amazing person first – not just a list of bullet points. In exchange for your skills, we will provide you with the tools you need, the work environment you crave, the best colleagues, professional development and a smorgasbord of office dogs to pat.