Brand Designer Job at Marin Skincare in Portland

Brand Designer at Marin Skincare

Description

Marin Skincare is a quickly growing skincare brand in Portland, ME seeking an empathetic, enthusiastic Brand Designer to join our high-performing, purpose-driven team. Marin is a four-year-old startup creating skincare products for people with dry, damaged, eczema-prone skin, using a protein found in lobster as the key ingredient, and to say the least, our DTC growth has been explosive. Following national news coverage, viral TikToks and launching with L.L. Bean, we’re excited to bring new team members into our dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Joining the team in a stage of rapid growth, you’ll take Marin emails, ads and overall design to the next level - you’re the creative execution through which the brand comes to life in each facet of graphic design. On a weekly basis, you’ll work collaboratively with the Founders, Head of Marketing and Head of Social to design emails, paid ad creatives, organic social creatives, site landing pages, merch and more.

Every visual moment the brand shows up an opportunity to storytell, educate and entertain - it’s your job to bring the brand to life while accomplishing our marketing goals in a disruptively creative, authentic manner. From clean, salient email storytelling to scroll-stopping ads, and visually compelling website journeys to collectable merch drops, your role will be a blend of dynamic collaboration and independence.

While every day is a new adventure, the focus areas of this role are email & SMS design (60%), paid social creatives (20%), landing page creation (10%) and supporting marketing collateral creation (10%), with the opportunity to grow and be exposed to more areas of the business.

About You

You are THE design wizard - the creative that lives and breathes design, brands and campaigns. You have an eye for engaging visuals, salient storytelling and creative that converts. You think deeper than literal and seek to communicate multi-dimensionally through copy, color, shapes, textures and other thoughtful elements of the creative multiverse. You have your finger on the pulse for the latest cool brands, design trends and best practices, but you’re not afraid to experiment with what you think could work.

You’ll become an integral part of our collaboratively entrepreneurial culture of hard work, high energy, fun and fulfillment in the work we do – rooted in a core value of Quality of Life for our customers, people and planet. We’re excited to bring on people who are radically ambitious, ready to ‘lean in’, be invested in growing the brand as much as they’re invested in growing themselves personally and professionally, to drive rapid growth and join the impact-driven journey that is Marin.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with our Senior Marketing Manager to execute visually compelling email marketing campaigns that align with the Marin brand ethos, storytelling style and visual identity.
• Work with our Head of Social to create best-in-class paid static and animated ads for Meta, Tiktok + Pinterest.
• Produce high-quality graphics for digital and print materials (website, packaging, merch, in-store marketing collaterals, infographics, etc.)
• Execute intelligently with a unique point of view, out-of-the-box and creative solutions while maintaining design identity and brand aesthetics.
• Continuous improvement: stay up-to-date with industry trends, software, best practices and emerging technologies.

Requirements and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or a related field
• Minimum 5 years demonstrated professional experience in graphic design, preferably in beauty, skincare, CPG and DTC.
• Strong portfolio showcasing experience in email marketing design, digital and print materials, and branding, demonstrate an exceptional eye for detail, image curation, storytelling, typography, layout, form and color theory.
• Creative, out-of-the-box thinker with an eye and passion for creating and storytelling through visual content, who’s not afraid to experiment and is in tune with trends, with the ability to spot “content moments”/creative opportunities and execute swiftly on them.
• Be a driven, coachable self-starter with a great sense of humor, who’s as confidently ambitious as thoughtfully humble; A team player with strong communication skills that’s comfortable receiving feedback.
• Bring an “anything is figureoutable” and “anything is possible” mindset, who’s not afraid to try new things and think outside the box.
• Capable of self-managing projects under tight deadlines, and be self-sovereign in bringing the brand to life with video content (be capable of both individually and collaboratively developing content ideas, but being ultimately responsible for ideation to editing to execution)
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma or similar software
• 5+ years in DTC
• 5+ years working at startups or small, scrappy teams

About Marin Skincare

Marin is a Portland, Maine-based skincare brand creating transformative, Glycoprotein-powered essentials for dry, damaged skin. Founded by two Bioengineers who ‘scratched our own itch’, we discovered the next big skincare ingredient, Marine Glycoproteins, an upcycled natural byproduct of lobster processing that hydrates, soothes and repairs dry, damaged skin. From scrappy beginnings to the launch of our rebrand, new Lip Treatments, national news coverage and viral TikToks, we have the momentum to become a category leader and are hiring a highly creative, marketing-minded designer to join our team, produce world-class creatives and execute disruptively unique campaigns with us.

Learn more about us and our story at www.MarinSkincare.com.

Marin Skincare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.