Lead Email Designer – US Retention

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Lead email designer setting visual systems and directing campaigns for a US retention agency serving 9-figure DTC brands. Coaching designers across fashion, beauty, CPG, and luxury accounts.

Responsibilities:

  • Design the first emails for every new client
  • Build each brand’s visual system, including typography, photography treatment, color, merchandising, and motion where appropriate
  • Own design quality across the agency’s book of business
  • Lead, brief, critique, and develop graphic designers
  • Provide campaign-level art direction for weekly sends, promotions, and product drops
  • Partner with strategists and copywriters to turn briefs into high-quality campaign designs
  • Push back on briefs that would produce generic work
  • Adapt design direction across fashion, beauty, CPG, and accessories brands
  • Set and maintain the agency’s email design quality standard

Requirements:

  • Experience at an agency servicing 9-figure ecommerce/DTC brands; must name the agency and brands
  • Exceptional email portfolio showing campaign art direction, custom display type, treated photography, and designed merchandising
  • Continues to design hands-on; first work for each new client must be theirs
  • Previous experience leading designers, including briefing, redlining, and raising design quality
  • Mastery of Figma
  • Adobe proficiency assumed
  • Ability to build for Klaviyo without producing generic Klaviyo-style designs
  • Design range across fashion, beauty, CPG, and accessories
  • Professional written and spoken English
  • Based in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, or Costa Rica
  • Ability to work 9am–1pm EST; role hours are 9am–5pm EST every working day
  • Portfolio link with email work required; NDA-covered work may be replaced with the closest shareable editorial or campaign work

Benefits:

  • PTO
  • Performance Bonuses
  • Paid in USD
  • Fully remote, permanently