About Us

Very Great is a New York-based company launch platform, building next-generation consumer brands. Founded in 2016 by Eric Prum and Josh Williams, Very Great empowers passionate entrepreneurs with best-in-class creative, manufacturing, sales and marketing infrastructure to rapidly develop, launch and scale digitally-native consumer product brands. The current family of brands includes W&P, Courant and Wild One, with future brand launches currently under development.

About the Role

Our Senior Digital Designer will masterfully lead and execute day-to-day digital projects across multiple platforms including ads, email, paid social, and more. This individual will be responsible for creating digital communications that align with each brand’s style and business goals in order to provide an engaging experience that is beautifully designed and drives business. You will apply expert knowledge of digital platforms and graphic design to bring each brand's aesthetic to life. You understand performance insights and are motivated by results. 

The role reports into the Director of Creative Planning and Operations and can be fully remote or work out of our NYC coworking spaces. 

Responsibilities

• Execute and lead day-to-day projects across all digital media to achieve performance marketing goals

• Advise brand teams with suggestions for e-commerce, social, and digital platform optimizations

• Build or adapt files for digital deliverables to be designed within several brand identities

• Create content as part of campaigns that may include both static and animated media

• Collaborate within several internal brand and creative teams to translate forward thinking design into practice

• Partner with the growth team to unlock new testing opportunities and audiences

• Help identify the formats, styles and messages that drive the most efficiency and scale

• Oversee and mentor digital designer(s) and intern(s)

• Retouch, color correct, edit and format imagery to work with a variety of email and ad needs

About You

• 5+ years of experience working in creative advertising at a start-up or growth organization

• Thorough knowledge in building digital assets across web, paid social, and email marketing

• Highly proficient in Adobe CC tools, especially After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator

• Well versed and aware of how deliverables like websites, emails, social posts, animations, video, and gifs come to life and monitor trends and evolutions across these platforms

• Desire to manage and guide direct reports and interns

• High bar for quality, rigor and integrity in their own work and colleagues

• Passion for creative excellence, branding and visual communications plus performance insights and data