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Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading capital venture funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

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The Opportunity at Culture Amp Who are we looking for? We’re looking for an experienced design leader to join Culture Amp’s marketing practice as we expand our brand reach and impact globally. You will work closely with cross-functional marketing teams to deliver innovative multi-channel marketing campaigns and initiatives to introduce the brand and product to existing and new audiences and markets. You are a creative leader and brand design expert, who brings curiosity to everything you do. You know how to tell an engaging story and skilfully take stakeholders and collaborators on the journey with you. You’re equipped with strong conceptual thinking skills to push boundaries and experience bringing creative ideas to life through polished execution, designing systems for scale and guiding a team with best practices. A successful design and creative lead brings together innovative ideas, design thinking, craft and collaboration to drive successful projects and business outcomes.   The Team   Creative is an integral part of Culture Amp and design is instrumental in creating memorable and impactful brand experiences, connecting our audiences with Culture Amp’s mission of creating a better world of work. This is an opportunity to be part of a highly cross-functional marketing team and have a measurable and meaningful impact on the company’s growth trajectory.   What you'll need to be successful

• 7+ years of experience working as a designer with-in a marketing function client side, or equivalent agency experience. Experience working in a fast growth business is highly desirable
• A portfolio that shows strong strategic thinking and the application of innovative design ideas and systems for brand and digital marketing across applications such as user interface design, multi-channel campaigns, content marketing, activations and physical events
• Proven experience managing and guiding a multidisciplinary team or direct reports, and contractors or creative agency partnerships to deliver complex creative projects end-to-end
• Digital design knowledge and an interest in driving creative technology and innovation to optimise and scale design processes, templatise production and improve efficiencies with-in creative workflows
• Creative problem solving and critical thinking skills to connect and simplify complex ideas and evolving project requirements
• Excellent judgment in decision making, managing and communicating trade-offs when collaborating with multiple stakeholders
• Excellent organisation and communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate the ‘why’, and lead discussions around your process, explorations, and conclusions
• A growth mindset and drive to continually experiment with new ideas, develop and improve your skills
• A passion for mentoring designers and growing design capability
• Required technical skills and program competencies:
• High proficiency with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) and familiarity with project management and marketing operations tooling, for example - Slack (comms), Asana (project management), Hubspot (email marketing) and Canva (templates).

What you'll be doing

• Manage and guide a small team of design reports, contractors and agency partners (as needed) to deliver impactful creative and set new standards for brand and marketing design at Culture Amp
• Own the concept development, creative direction and brand application for integrated campaigns and creative project delivery. Applications could include campaign identities, OOH, digital and micro sites, editorial content, reports, social media assets, video and experience design direction
• Drive the development of audience focused creative (buyer, customer, segment, industry, region profiles) for brand campaigns and multi-channel marketing initiatives to meet business targets
• Partner with marketing functions (demand generation, regional, product, brand marketing) to contribute to cross-functional planning and strategy discussions, and advise on creative resource management to achieve project and business goals
• Inspire, motivate and collaborate with mixed creative disciplines; designers, illustrators, photographers, motion designers and video editors to develop high quality creative and provide feedback and clear guidance on execution to collaborators
• Present a vision, concepts and solutions to stakeholders, communicate the impact of design in solving business problems, rationalise decisions and incorporate feedback
• Facilitate and contribute to creative workshops and ideation sessions with creative partners and collaborators to drive research, experimentation and continuous learning
• Mentor, develop and grow passionate designers to hone their craft and contribute to building a network of contractors and agency partners as the business scales

You are

• A collaborative leader and creative thinker. You understand what it takes to bring a diverse group of people together to bring new ideas to life
• You are prepared to get in and deliver work. You are equally comfortable with design execution as you are leading a team to deliver the work
• Progress over perfection. You are someone who is comfortable taking initiative and operating in an exciting but at times ambiguous environment with tight deadlines

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are: 

• Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
• Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
• Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
• Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
• Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
• Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
• Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
• Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
• 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
• MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only) 

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. 

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it. 

 

 

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