Location: Remote
Discipline: UX / Product Design
Experience: 5+ years
Compensation: TBD
Thorn is a non-profit focused on building technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Working at Thorn allows you to apply your skills, expertise, and passions to directly impact the lives of vulnerable children. Our staff solves dynamic, quickly evolving problems with our network of partners from tech companies, NGOs, and law enforcement agencies. If you can bring clarity to complexity and lightness to heavy issues, you could be an excellent fit for our team. To get more info and view the application,click here.
About the Role:
In order to best serve the creative and messaging needs of internal stakeholders, Marketing is standing up the Thorn Creative Lab (TCL), which will be the creative services hub within the organization.
The Lab will comprise a mix of automated and full-service support for projects, including market research, campaign development, digital services, messaging & media outreach and asset creation.
The Visual Designer will drive the Thorn mission through well-crafted visual narratives across all channels and audience touchpoints and high-quality web and email experiences. Projects will draw on a designer’s big-picture creative skills as well as on detailed design and build execution, including social media graphics, donor presentations, executive presentations, designing & building emails, designing & building landing pages. Approximately 80% of this role’s workload will be design projects and 20% web & email build projects.
What You’ll Do:
Design for various TCL projects, including brand initiatives, marketing campaigns, product launches, web design, email design, social media campaigns, research reports, infographics, donor presentations and other assets as needed. Recent projects this role could have impacted are: Multi-channel product launch campaign
Google slide presentation for a TED-x conference
2020 Impact Report and associated campaign
Utilize templates to build simple responsive web pages in Wordpress, Hubspot and/or Ghost
Utilize templates to build responsive emails in Hubspot
Design email and website templates and collaborate with a contract front-end developer to develop templates
Be a responsive, nimble and trusted resource for cross-functional partners across the organization
Engage functional expertise, including visual communications, web design, UX design and brand identity across the marketing team and, as needed, external agency resources to successfully deliver against goals
Serve as the visual steward of the Thorn brand and sub-brands to ensure consistency in all outward-facing communications. Maintain brand standards while keeping brand style guides and templates up to date
Manage individual workload and timelines to ensure on-time and successful delivery of all work
Be a key collaborator and team player within the marketing and communications team (including a Communications Director, Sr. Marketing Manager, Marketing Manager and Content & Community Manager) as well as cross-functionally.
What We’re Looking For:
You have a commitment to putting the children we serve at the center of everything you do
5+ years experience working as a brand visual designer, web designer and/or UX designer at a product or service-driven organization
Experience designing for web, social, email and print
Experience authoring and/or building websites, landing pages and emails in Hubspot, Ghost, Wordpress or other CMS platforms
Working knowledge of HTML and CSS
Ability to deliver high-quality work on-time, while balancing competing priorities
Expertise in Sketch and Adobe Creative Cloud
A can-do attitude, willingness to learn and commitment to delivering creative solutions for internal and external stakeholders
Transparency and integrity in all actions, demonstration of good judgment and keen instincts, strong team player
Illustration skills and tech sector experience are a plus
Technologies We Use:
HubSpot
SalesForce
Asana
Sprout Social
Google Analytics
WordPress
Google Workspace
Slack
Zapier
Adobe Creative Cloud
Sketch
At Thorn, we understand the value of developing a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences. We prioritize diversity within our team and encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. Your skills are needed here.
