Job Description

Babylist is looking for a part-time Visual Designer who can help us develop a wide array of assets to support our content and marketing strategies.

As a Freelance Visual Designer, you’ll get to:

• Constantly show off your creativity
• Suggest fresh design styles and creative directions that suit our brand needs
• Create animations, illustrations, mood boards, and other supporting assets
• Work from anywhere! (Your couch? The beach?)

The ideal candidate is curious, collaborative, driven, agile and a great problem-solver

This is a part-time, contract role (20-30 hours) and can be remote within the U.S., ideally in Texas, California, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, South Carolina, or Wisconsin.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with the visual design team to build, design and innovate our growing brand
• Ensure brand consistency across multiple projects and consumer touch points
• Design a range of editorial and marketing assets (including but not limited to editorial design and layout, digital advertising, infographics, etc.)
• Design projects and tasks effectively and simultaneously, and deliver assignments on time
• Communicate effectively and consistently with stakeholders on project development
• Create and evolve thoughtful presentation layout for branded decks (Google Slides and Keynote) for the executive and ad sales team

Who You Are

• Driven, passionate, versatile and open-­minded
• Strong collaborative skills, working towards a common goal; our designers have the opportunity to work with experts in various fields and are expected to bring ideas to the table
• Empathetic and user-centric, understanding our audience and approaching your work from a user-first principle with strong interest in how design affects user experience
• Able to give and receive feedback is a must; you thrive in an environment of constant feedback
• Ability to deliver against tight timelines, managing multiple and competing work priorities
• Proactive, self­-motivated, team player with little to no ego; you’re a problem-solver who gets things done
• You are resourceful, diligent, and have a strong attention to detail
• Cross-platform thinker: mobile, web, mobile web, video, organic, paid channels, collateral, and experiential
• Hungry for creating bold visual design and a portfolio to prove it
• Nice to haves: Illustration and/or video editing skills; A passion for babies and their stuff

What You’ve Done

• Exceptional technical skills in Adobe Creative Suite
• 2-3 years of applicable design experience

Please include a link to your portfolio. Applications without a portfolio link will not be considered. A brief design test will be required for consideration.

Why You Will Love Working at Babylist:

• We get stuff done
• We have a real impact on people’s lives
• We’re passionate about our users and we genuinely appreciate them
• We work at a sustainable pace for long-term success (yes, we’re profitable)
• We are growing and have meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We’re a technological and data-driven business
• We believe in autonomy and reward taking initiative
• We have experienced leadership that is always open to new ideas