Marketing & Brand Designer

1 big thing: Axios HQ makes internal comms work. Its mix of communication software, hands-on editorial services, comms leader community, and best practice resource center is built on years of data and research from newsrooms and universities. We help organizations around the world use it — and communicate more effectively with it — to boost staff transparency, engagement, and trust. 

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Go deeper: Our marketing team is looking for a visual designer with an owner mentality who’s ready to make an impact — internally and externally — on Axios HQ’s brand. This role reports to the VP of Brand & Strategy, but it will also have community with our Product Design team. You will:

• Be a creative brand steward. You will study and uphold our visual identity and help push its public-facing expressions to new heights. You will help build out a new brand style guide and help keep it current. You are creative and proactive.
• Excel at marketing design. From website design to ad and social creative, conference banners, reports, event and podcast promos, email templates, and more, you will have the vision, build the creative, and help bring projects to life. You are conceptual and efficient. 
• Balance brand and performance. You understand that every project has a purpose and that design will influence outcomes. You have a test-and-learn mentality to help improve websites, campaigns, and ad creative with goals in mind. You are curious and technical.
• Deliver cross-functional support. You will work with leaders across the business on projects like leveling up sales decks, designing collateral, and creating brand-appropriate systems and templates to enable teammates. You are communicative and collaborative. 
• Work across mediums. Our most common assets are static, digital creative, but we are excited to expand. Ideal candidates will have some experience in illustration, animation, and/or motion and are eager to work on print projects, too. You are dynamic and flexible.
• Influence our design process. You will help maintain our guidelines, evolve our intake process, keep projects on pace, collaborate on priorities, lead design feedback sessions, support vendors, and communicate progress. You are organized and systems-oriented. 
• Grow with us. We are a growing team with big goals. We hope you want to build with us!

The details: Ideal candidates will have an entrepreneurial spirit — you like to tinker, you’re highly collaborative, you’re solutions-oriented and always learning. In short, you find challenges exciting and have the “how hard could it be” gene. You have a passion for Axios HQ’s mission, as well as:

• 6+ years of design experience at an agency or in-house at a brand
• 3+ years of design or marketing experience with B2B brands / technology brands
• 3+ years of delivering designs to fuel demand generation or growth marketing 
• A strong portfolio of creative campaigns and assets that you have directly built 
• Excellent aesthetic and conceptual sensibility combined with technical ability
• Efficiency across industry standard tools: Adobe Suite, Sketch, Figma, etc.
• A campaign mindset, able to tell a visual story in its best way on different platforms
• Eagerness to analyze competitors and identify visual opportunities to drive differentiation
• Comfortable with and flexible to feedback
• A strong outcomes-focused mentality
• A track record of success in collaborating with stakeholders, including executives, product, sales, and other marketing colleagues, in a way that maintains trust and delivers results
• Demonstrated sense of ownership, project management capabilities, and operational rigor that shows in how you manage multiple moving parts while still hitting deadlines
• An intrinsic desire to delight — in the experiences you create for our audiences, in the relationships you build with your peers, and in the work we do together
• Familiarity with HTML/CSS/JS is a plus

You also have an eagerness to seek inspiration, be excited by opportunity, and learn the next new thing. Tell us about what you’re watching, or a weird website you coded, or the new course you’re signed up for, or an actually surprising way AI is helping you do your job. We’d love to hear it. 

Don’t forget: 

• Axios HQ believes in fair and equitable pay. Base salary earnings for this role are in the range of $90,000–$105,000 and are dependent on numerous factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, and skills.
• Health insurance
• Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
• 401K + match
• Generous vacation policy, plus company holidays
• Company equity
• A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Monthly work-from-home stipend
• Tele-mental health services
• Virtual company-sponsored social events

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:

Axios HQ is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Axios HQ makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.