Designer

About Us:

Have you ever had the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of people in a meaningful way and help them enjoy time away with their friends and families building memories?

That is what we do here at HomeAway.com, an Expedia Inc. company. We are the leading vacation rental website in the world with more than one million online bookable vacation rentals. Our mission is to make every vacation rental in the world available to every traveler in the world through our online marketplace and we’re committed to helping families and friends find the perfect vacation rental to create unforgettable travel experiences together.

About Global Creative Studio: The Global Creative Studio (GCS) is an international, multi-disciplinary group of creatives with a deep curiosity about the world and an undeniable passion for travel. As part of the Global Brand and Integrated Marketing team, we’re responsible for imagining, developing, and delivering high-caliber, multimedia marketing programs to engage and inform our travelers (B2C) and property owners/managers (B2B). We’re the dreamers and doers behind global and regional marketing campaigns, always-on editorial channels, and technical initiatives that include content automation and scalability. We seek the industry’s best storytellers, visual artists, and technical experts to grow and thrive with us as we tell the HomeAway story around the world.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an Visual Designer to join, contribute, and work within our Global Creative Studio and help deliver award-winning, world-class creative.

Reporting to the Creative Design Manager, your primary focus will be to set the design direction for integrated marketing materials. This would include creating assets to be used within online and offline marketing campaigns and a variety of digital brand content. You will work alongside a team of Designers, Writers, Developers and Videographers to bring ideas to life. Along the way you will help set a high standard of online user experience, meeting deadlines and working within brand guidelines.

Online portfolio required to apply.

What you bring:

-S tudied the principles of graphic design and can bend them to your will.
-R ecognize the importance of the fine details and your designs illustrate your obsession with those details.
-U nderstand human-centered design and have empathy as you approach creative challenges.
-U nderstand what it means to craft stories and know how those stories can build brands.
-U se campaign level thinking and can take an idea from concept through final execution.
– A creative problem solver and can evaluate a creative approach, brainstorm, and seek unexpected, original and innovative ideas.
-H ave creative confidence, you think big and have the ability to act on your ideas.
-K now the beauty that exists in simplicity.
-K now constraints are inevitable, but can often drive innovation.
-Have f ailed, but you’ve learned from failure.
-P resent your work in a way that captivates your audience.
-H ave the ability to think about email, banner display and landing page templates as a modular canvas that can be re-used over and over.
-H ave a strong responsive design perspective with a mobile first mentality.
-S ee the design of a campaign from an omni channel versus vehicle execution platform.
-C an process information supplied by client/strategy/account services and translate that information into visual ideas and executions.
– Optimistic and tend to focus on the ‘what could be’. To you, problems are simply solutions waiting to be found.
-H ave a sense of humor and thrive in collaborative environments.