Design Director, Product Marketing
- Full-time
Company Description
Job Description
Square, Inc. New York is looking for a Design Director (Product Marketing) to oversee the Design group on our East Coast Creative team. You will collaborate with our various product and marketing teams, including PMs, PMMs, Product Designers and Engineers to craft smart, effective marketing solutions that help tell the story of Square’s growing ecosystem of products. We work across the latest emerging platforms, covering web and mobile experiences, UX, UI, visual design, prototyping, experiential installations, photography, video, and animation.
You’ll be directing and contributing to all aspects of our visual communications, building, managing, and mentoring a team of growing to highly experienced and multidisciplinary Designers and Art Directors, collaborating with other disciplines, and presenting work to partners and executive leadership. You are confident enough to share and sell your ideas, and perceptive enough to know when to encourage others to share theirs. Experience in and passion for people management is a must, and there will be a core component of strategy to the job as well: you’ll be asked to connect dots, organize thoughts and develop plans to match teams’ expectations.
You will:
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Copy, Strategy, Engineering, Product, and Program Management to define key objectives for each deliverable and campaigns
- Define team processes that focus on end-to-end support of Square’s marketing efforts, through research, strategy, execution, launch and beyond
- Champion Square’s brand standards and design systems
- Motivate and encourage your team to make sure the output of our efforts is the best it can be, maintaining a high level of creative execution while meeting the needs of our stakeholders
- Provide guidance on how our team of designers can grow and progress their careers at Square
- Shape the vision of a team that aligns with the Creative Studio’s and Square’s future, ultimately making sure that the team supports the success of our sellers
Qualifications
You have:
- 10+ years' experience
- Experience in people leadership and management; this includes: hiring, training and developing, leadership-by-example, and organizational design
- Aesthetic sensibilities and experience executing multiple styles of digital, product, illustration, film, and motion graphics concepts
- Great understanding of the opportunities and limitations of the modern web
- An ability to oversee the development process of a project and quality control on functionality and design polish
- A positive attitude with an open mindset and a will to improve to serve Square’s mission statement
For consideration, please include your portfolio in your application.**