Manager, Design – Marketing

Job Description:

• Design digital ads, newsletter/email templates, and promotional graphics
• Maintain, evolve, and enforce brand guidelines across customer touchpoints
• Stage and photograph prototypes and finished books for promotional graphics and the website
• Design organic social media content for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, including static graphics, motion design, and video overlays
• Produce print materials such as merchandise and packaging
• Collaborate with editorial, marketing, and art teams from concept through execution
• Organize and maintain the team’s digital asset library, templates, and design files
• Collaborate with stakeholders on product look and feel, including illustration style, typography, layouts, covers, icons, and infographics
• Make design corrections, mockups, and typesetting changes
• Maintain promotional PowerPoint decks and the internal database
• Design shipper boxes and packaging and prepare print-ready files

Requirements:

• Experience designing for digital, social, and print applications
• Strong portfolio demonstrating versatile marketing assets for the book industry, including product styling/lighting
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Experience with Figma, After Effects, Premiere Pro and video editing software
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact effectively across internal teams
• Detail-oriented, with ability to meet deadlines
• Strong organizational, problem-solving and prioritization skills
• 2+ years of marketing design in trade publishing or DTC e-commerce agency experience, with a focus on video-first design
• Motion graphics or video editing skills using After Effects and Premiere Pro
• Experience working with clients or external partners
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in graphic design or another related field, or equivalent work experience preferred
• Knowledge of book design/production is a plus
• Digital illustration experience is a plus
• Knowledge of Airtable is a plus

Benefits:

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
• Equal opportunity employment