Responsibilities

• Own and continuously raise the creative standard for Join Marathon's email work
• Lead creative direction across email campaigns and lifecycle flows for multiple D2C/eCommerce brands
• Translate strategy and briefs into compelling visual and messaging concepts
• Ensure design and copy work together to create cohesive, conversion-focused emails
• Help establish the visual and creative direction for new client accounts
• Develop and evolve email design systems, templates, and creative guidelines
• Identify opportunities to make our creative more distinctive, polished, and effective
• Review work from our designers and provide clear, actionable creative direction
• Help designers improve hierarchy, typography, composition, imagery, branding, and overall execution
• Maintain consistency while ensuring each client\'s creative feels unique to their brand

Requirements

• Previous agency experience working across multiple client accounts is required
• Experience working with D2C/eCommerce brands in an agency environment
• Exceptional portfolio of email and digital marketing creative
• Strong hands-on email design experience
• Advanced Figma skills
• Excellent understanding of visual hierarchy, typography, layout, composition, imagery, and brand systems
• Strong copywriting and editing instincts
• Understanding of direct-response and conversion-focused creative
• Experience developing creative concepts rather than simply executing briefs
• Experience reviewing creative and providing constructive direction to designers

Preferred

• Experience leading or mentoring designers
• Direct-response copywriting experience
• Experience using performance data to inform creative decisions
• Experience developing creative testing strategies
• Experience creating scalable design systems across multiple brands
• Experience with high-volume D2C/eCommerce email programs