Enjoy creative storytelling? Get a thrill from designing innovative user experiences? Have experience as an effective team leader? Want to play a key role in strengthening a company’s brand?

We are looking for a Sr. Manager, Creative Design with a background in branding, UX and mobile to take our company branding to the next level and lead our design team.

At The Penny Hoarder, our mission is to put more money in our readers’ pockets, and we do that by sharing inspiring stories from real people and practical tips anyone can use. We make personal finance fun for millions of people each month -- and design is a big part of that user experience, paving the way for increased engagement, trust, and a stronger connection with our audience.

This position will play a key role across the company, working closely with the VP of Marketing and Brand Strategy, along with other key stakeholders, to develop and amplify The Penny Hoarder brand. In addition to leading design on major projects, you’ll manage our small design team, coaching several graphic and web designers to do their best work.

Your team will be responsible for projects to include: imagining new user-centric website experiences in collaboration with our UX Architect; creating engaging, innovative graphics for our social media channels; collaborating with our advertising team to design branded website pages for our partners; and providing a vision for company branding that helps us deepen our relationships with our audience, industry peers and advertisers.

In this role, you’ll...

Provide strategic creative direction on elevating our brand and strengthening our visual presence, executing designs that are based on overarching brand strategy & insights and communicate our company’s values
Lead and motivate a small team of designers on web and graphic requests, providing clear art direction to ensure high-quality deliverables and brand consistency
Design fresh and creative responsive concepts for The Penny Hoarder website, including new experiences and re-imagining those that already exist, with an eye toward increasing community engagement
Bring a mobile-first, UX-focused approach to design, proactively identifying ways to reduce friction for users, using both low and high fidelity wireframes and prototypes
Work with our product management and development teams to extend and optimize web functionality, user interface and navigation that works with various breakpoints and devices, including providing feedback during development to ensure interactions work as designed
Conceptualize and execute innovative approaches to branded content pages that showcase our advertising partners while providing clear value for our community
Provide a cohesive vision for graphics across all our platforms, including Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and email, adhering to best practices
Suggest and implement efficiencies for cross-department collaboration, finding ways to improve our workflows with our product management, editorial and IT teams
Assist with the creation and implementation of our internal design system, continuously expanding and improving upon it
Maintain wireframes and prototypes for key user flows, interactions and design specifications as required throughout the design and testing life-cycle
Serve as a change agent, suggesting new ways of presenting our brand and effectively rallying others around the vision
Manage creative resources across departments and communicate project status, timelines, deliverables, goals, and expectations to internal teams and other departments on a regular basis
Create brand standards and challenge teams to find creative solutions, rooted in audience and market insights

We’re looking for someone who brings...

7 years experience creating responsive web designs and rapidly delivering and iterating on products, including presenting solutions to design challenges
5 years experience leading a team and motivating direct reports to produce high-quality creative work
5 years brand strategy and execution experience working on diverse creative projects in media, lifestyle or fashion categories.
A sophisticated sense of visual design as proven by a user-centric portfolio
Passion for developing intuitive and engaging user experiences on mobile devices, bringing a UX-focused approach to their work, with a strong understanding of web best practices and typography for the web
Experience working in an agile environment
Familiarity with front-end technologies and bootstrap frameworks, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, so they can keep our development team top of mind and make decisions throughout the creative process that make their work easier
Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-moving environment, including adapting in the face of unexpected challenges
A calm, humble demeanor and positive attitude that inspires trust, confidence and collaboration
A mature relationship with feedback, seeking and readily implementing it, while prioritizing the user
Expert-level experience with Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Sketch and InVision
Active approach to staying on top of industry trends and innovations, integrating them into creative work

We’ll see it as a plus if you also have….

Some experience (part or all of your career) designing for news organizations, so you can design with an eye toward flexibility, knowing copy or other assets might change along the way
10+ years experience creating responsive web designs and rapidly delivering and iterating on products, including presenting solutions to design challenges

About Taylor Media

Taylor Media is a digital media startup based in beautiful and walkable St. Petersburg, Florida. We run The Penny Hoarder, a website about interesting ways to earn and save money. Our mission is to provide valuable, relevant tips and inspirational stories that help people put more money in their pockets.

In 2017, Inc. 5000 ranked The Penny Hoarder as the No. 1 fastest-growing private media company in the U.S. for the second consecutive year, and #25 on the overall list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. We’re bootstrapped and profitable, with a brand new state-of-the-art headquarters. Our bold, kind, lead with spark team is one of innovation and progress, and we promote a strengths-based culture that offers our employees room to learn and grow.

Perks of joining us include: Full health insurance coverage, three weeks of vacation time plus seven paid holidays, unlimited sick days, generous retirement plan, parking and communications allowance and an annual learning stipend.

If you found this job on Indeed or another website, please navigate to our website to apply, so you can answer our application questions. You can read more about what it’s like to work with us at http://thepennyhoarder.com/careers.

Taylor Media Corp