Marketing Visual Designer

Des Moines, IA (On-site)

$20/hr – $25/hrMid Level2+ years expContract

Posted 21 hrs ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design digital marketing assets including emails, display ads, paid and social assets, GIFs, animations, landing page visuals, branded promotional content, presentation materials, event graphics, and special projects.
  • Apply strong layout, typography, color, image selection, and visual hierarchy skills to create clear and effective marketing communications.
  • Develop campaign creative that can scale across formats, placements, sizes, and platforms while maintaining brand consistency.
  • Support the development and refinement of Picksy’s visual brand system across marketing touchpoints.
  • Translate creative briefs, campaign goals and business requirements into polished visual assets.
  • Create design variations when needed to support campaign testing, optimization and performance learnings.
  • Manage multiple projects at once while maintaining strong attention to detail, organization, and quality.
  • Be nimble and ready to take on new challenges, shifting priorities, and emerging opportunities as they arise.

Requirements

  • 2-4 years of agency, marketing, digital, brand, or promotional design experience.
  • A portfolio that demonstrates strong visual design skills across digital marketing, campaign, promotional, or brand work.
  • Strong understanding of advertising, promotion, branding, and graphic design.
  • Hands-on experience with Adobe Creative Suite—and Affinity Designer (not required, but must have a willingness to pick up new programs).
  • Knowledge and experience with video editing and animation are a major plus.
  • Understanding of digital marketing formats, including email, social, display, and responsive campaign assets.
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage many projects at once and work well under tight deadlines.
  • Comfortable receiving feedback, iterating quickly, and collaborating with creative and cross-functional partners.
  • Comfortable self-teaching or sourcing tutorials for design programs when needed.

Preferred

  • Figma knowledge is a plus
  • Knowledge and experience with video editing and animation are a major plus
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People Inc.

People Inc. (formerly Dotdash Meredith) is the largest digital and print publisher in America. More than 175 million people trust us each month to help them find inspiration, make decisions, and take action. People Inc.'s more than 40 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Allrecipes, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living. People Inc. is based in New York City and is an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IAC).

New York, New York, USA
1.8K employees (753 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
191K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
12.7%
Direct
61.6%
Referral
20%
Social
3.2%
Paid
2.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
606 (33% of company)
Median Career Experience
17 years
Median Tenure
1.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
25

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