Sr. Designer, Social & Performance Marketing

Irvine, CA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end creative for Rivian’s paid media and lifecycle emails, delivering brand-consistent, high-performance assets by coordinating with Strategy, Content, and Creative Studio to scale modular components and dynamic ideas.

  • Paid Media Creative: Build and iterate assets for social, search, display, and CTV that perform, collaborating with media buyers.
  • Email Design & Production: Create mobile-first templates and modular assets for lifecycle, promotional, and transactional flows.
  • Collaboration & Asset Management: Align design with campaign objectives, audience segmentation, and scalable component libraries across teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Paid Media Creative: Design and produce high-impact static and motion assets for paid channels (social, search, display, CTV), adhering to platform best practices and sizing requirements. Iterate based on performance data and partner with media buyers to evolve what's working.
  • Email Design & Production: Design pixel-perfect, mobile-first email templates and assets (graphics, photos, GIFs, modular blocks) for lifecycle, promotional, and transactional flows.
  • High-Stakes Communications: Support executive presentations, internal newsletters, and Corporate Communications projects as they come up.
  • Brand Consistency: Ensure all creative ladders up to Rivian brand standards and maintains visual consistency across channels.
  • Technical Execution: Work within the constraints of HTML/CSS for email to guarantee clean rendering across major clients (Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail) and devices.
  • Collaboration: Partner with Marketing Strategy, Content, Customer Knowledge, and Creative Studio to align design with campaign objectives, audience segmentation, and deployment schedules.
  • Asset Management: Build and maintain modular component libraries that scale across templates and campaigns.

Requirements

  • Experience: 3+ years designing and producing digital content, with meaningful time in paid media.
  • Portfolio: A strong portfolio showcasing responsive design across channels, with work that holds up visually and performs.
  • Figma Fluency: Deep proficiency in Figma — components, variables, auto-layout, and building scalable component libraries and proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator).
  • Design Systems: Experience working with design systems and component libraries at scale. You understand how to maintain integrity while moving fast.
  • A/B Testing & Performance Iteration: Experience testing creative variants, reading results, and iterating. You\'re curious about what makes work perform, not just what makes it look good.
  • Technical Understanding: Solid working knowledge of HTML/CSS constraints for email, and asset specs for major paid platforms (Meta, Google, etc.).
  • Attention to Detail: Exceptional QA habits and a meticulous approach to typography, color, and layout.
  • Communication & Self-Direction: Strong verbal and written communication. Able to articulate design decisions clearly and operate with limited oversight.
  • Experience with a major Enterprise ESP/CRM platform (Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze, Klaviyo) preferred.
  • Experience with dynamic content, personalization logic, or AMP for Email preferred.

Preferred

  • Experience with dynamic content, personalization logic, or AMP for Email preferred.
  • Experience designing for premium or design-led brands preferred.
  • Comfort integrating AI tools (like Claude Design) into the design process without compromising craft preferred.

Benefits

  • Paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a comprehensive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance to eligible employees.
  • Opportunity to participate in Rivian’s 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements.
  • The salary range for this role is $87,300 to $109,100 for Irvine, California based applicants.
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Doing something different is never easy. It requires courage, optimism and grit. Core to our mission is building a team of adventurous individuals determined to make a positive impact on the world. This means challenging ourselves constantly. Stretching beyond the bounds of conventional thinking. Reframing old problems. Seeking new solutions. And operating comfortably in a space of uncertainty. While our backgrounds are diverse, our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. Do you like doing the impossible? We’d love to hear from you.

Founded in 2009
Irvine, California, USA
12K employees (382 in marketing)
60% recommend to a friend
69% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.4M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$22.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.6%
Direct
45.3%
Referral
5.4%
Social
3.5%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~11.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
160 (1% of company)
Median Career Experience
14.5 years
Median Tenure
3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
7

Funding

Total Funding
$21.9B
Last Raise
$1B
Post IPO Equity, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Post IPO Equity • $1B
  • Nov 2024
    Post IPO Debt • $6.6B
  • May 2024
    Grant • $827M

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