Visual Designer

BigCommerce, named a 2017 Best Place to Work in Austin, is looking for a talented Visual Designer to join our team!

Designers at BigCommerce are responsible for the creation and maintenance of high-quality, publication ready content in support of our merchant and partner engagement goals. While Designers collaborate with all teams at BigCommerce, the relationship between Marketing and Design will be critical for the success of this role. You will be trusted to deliver content that aligns to our creative vision and guidelines while still meeting conversion and optimization best-practices.

What You’ll Be Doing

You feel passionately that Design is a craft and a critical part of the overall marketing strategy. You have a passion for visual design, but are focused on the mechanics and operations as a discipline.

• Collaborate with design team on conceptual ideas in brainstorming sessions and taking leads on various design initiatives.
• Partner directly with various stakeholders to deliver on-brand, high-quality content and assets.
• Help push the overall bar for design while contributing to the growing BC Design Culture.
• Determine appropriate use of patterns and guidelines for various content needs.
• Take full ownership of your work, including managing multiple priorities and creating awareness of the production pipeline.
• Advocate for and help nurture high-performing brand and content guidelines.
• Ensure content is optimized and organized for requester needs.

Who You Are

• A systems thinker. You quickly embrace and align to guidelines, understanding their application across channels for the entire customer lifecycle.
• Self-driven. You have superior organizational skills, integrity and great follow through on tasks. You don’t get overwhelmed easily.
• Naturally curious. You’re innovative, extremely creative and constantly looking for ways to tweak and optimize process.
• Fun. You’re a charismatic people person who can talk to anyone; you’re flexible, fearless, and excited to help build something awesome.
• Pragmatic. You appreciate the latest design trends but can easily filter out what is and isn’t useful to the task at hand.
• A utility player. You’re willing to help out wherever needed.

Requirements

• 4+ years of design experience working with a marketing team. Preferably with a product or software company.
• Be able to multitask, working on several projects at once with careful attention to detail.
• Experience delivering assets and content for large-scale digital properties, including: responsive websites, social channels, advertising platforms, and email. Experience in print publication is a plus. Specific experience required will vary depending on level.
• Expertise in image optimizing, retouching, manipulation, color correction.
• Expertise in the Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, PowerPoint, Keynote, and JIRA. Experience with Craft, Marketo, and other online publication tools is a plus.
• Delivery experience working in cross-disciplinary teams.
• Understanding of mobile and internationalization is a plus.

Inside BigCommerce

BigCommerce is a robust, flexible commerce platform that provides established and emerging brands with everything they need to launch, promote, manage and scale a successful online store.BigCommerce merchants earn more than retailers on competitive commerce solutions thanks to advanced features, better site performance and streamlined business processes. Founded in 2009, the company has received more than $100 million in funding from SoftBank Capital, American Express, Telstra Ventures, General Catalyst, Revolution Growth and FLOODGATE. BigCommerce supports thousands of retailers around the world from its offices in San Francisco, Austin and Sydney.

We’re a team of smart, passionate and talented people on a mission to democratize commerce. If you’re looking to work with industry leaders and love what you do, we want to hear from you!

Perks & Benefits

• An amazing company culture that doesn’t just talk values, but lives them
• Open vacation policy for salaried team members and generous accrual vacation policy for hourly team members, + paid sick time
• Competitive compensation packages and meaningful stock grants for every employee
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage that starts on day one
• Fully stocked kitchens and craft beers (don’t worry, we also subsidize gym memberships)
• Four especially cool offices in Austin, San Francisco and Sydney
• A free online store to help you live out your entrepreneurial dreams
• Employee-driven teambuilding activities like paintball, rock climbing, social sports leagues, hackathons, movie nights, river floats, etc.
• Time off for volunteering and employee-driven charity events