Lead Brand Designer

Rithum™ is the world’s most trusted commerce network, accelerating how brands, suppliers, and retailers work together to deliver seamless e-commerce experiences. We provide an unmatched platform for brands and retailers, enabling them to accelerate growth, optimize operations across channels, scale product offerings and enhance margins.

Today, more than 40,000 companies trust Rithum to grow their business across hundreds of channels, representing over $50 billion in annual GMV. Using our commerce, marketing, and delivery solutions, our customers create optimized consumer shopping journeys from beginning to end.

 

Overview

As a Lead Brand Designer, you lead the creation of our high-quality brand marketing assets that span across digital, sales enablement materials, event booth designs, and social content; ensuring the brand stands out visually in a crowded and competitive landscape. You own the end-to-end design process and play a pivotal role in bringing our brand to life across multiple touchpoints. You are responsible for owning and influencing the creative direction for the Rithum brand, ensuring consistency across all internal and external communications and client/prospect touchpoints.  As a member of the Content Marketing team, you bring the brand narrative to life through strong creative design in collaboration with product marketing, communications, and executive leadership teams.  

 

Responsibilities

• Creates visually engaging content for various marketing channels, including social media, email campaigns, website, and digital ads, leveraging a mix of photography, graphic design, and multimedia elements. 
• Provides creative design expertise for presentation decks required by teams across the business including the executive leadership team.  
• Maintains a consistent visual identity across all content while adapting to platform-specific requirements and best practices.  
• Serves as the primary point of contact on all creative requests: agreeing approach, budget alignment and coordinating execution including briefing and overseeing approvals when required.
• Curates and manages a library of brand assets, including logos, graphics, photography, and slide templates, ensuring accessibility and consistency for internal and external stakeholders.  
• Develops and enforces brand guidelines to maintain brand integrity and visual coherence across all touchpoints.  
• Conceptualizes and designs visuals for demand generation ad campaigns across various platforms (6Sense, Google Ads, Partner Articles, etc.) ensuring alignment with Rithum’s brand guidelines and campaign objectives.
• Collaborates with Demand Gen team to understand target audience(s) and campaign goals, translating them into compelling visual narratives. 
• Leads the ideation and development of event branding and design elements, including signage, booth graphics, promotional materials, and digital/video assets.  
• Comfortable working in Asana with ability to proactively communicate deadlines and workload management.
• Works closely with event managers to understand event objectives and audience to maximize the impact of Rithum’s presence at each event.  
• Manages relationships with external agencies and contractors where required for scale, including designers and other creatives, providing direction, feedback, and managing project timelines and budget.  
• Negotiates contracts, scope of work, and pricing agreements with agencies and contractors, maximizing value while adhering to approved budget.   
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams including marketing, product, sales, and executive leadership to align creative strategies with business objectives.  
• Presents creative concepts and recommendations to stakeholders, incorporating feedback and insights to refine and enhance creative deliverables.  
• Stays informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and creative best practices, incorporating innovative ideas and techniques into Rithum's creative output.  
• Proactively explores new design trends, visual styles, and technologies to maintain Rithum's competitive edge and relevance in the market. 

 

Qualifications 

Minimum Qualifications  

• 5+ years of experience in graphic design with at least 3 years of experience in a b2b SaaS organization, preferably including brand visual creation.  
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), Adobe XD, and Canva. 
• Expertise in Microsoft PowerPoint, with the ability to create visually compelling and on-brand presentations and corporate templates
• Must have events booth design experience
• Must have an online portfolio
• Experience in exploration and adoption of AI-based tools to improve design production workflows. 
• Advanced understanding of branding, marketing, video, animation and UX principles & processes.
• Experience developing creative strategies for projects supporting core marketing and business objectives.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and ability to self-organize, adapting approach to be effective where necessary, but also able to challenge and steer when relevant.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in related field/expertise.
• Prior work experience with a demonstrated track record of results in a SaaS or e-commerce company.
• Knowledge of Figma and InDesign.
• Web design, coding and video editing skills would be highly desirable, but not essential.
• UX/UI experience for landing page creation.    

 

Travel: 

• Up to 10% 

  

What it’s like to work at Rithum 

When you join Rithum, you can expect to work with smart risk-takers, courageous collaborators, and curious minds.

As part of the Rithum team, you are valued, supported, and included. Guided by a transparent culture and accessible, approachable leadership, we offer career opportunities aligned to your ambitions and talents. To ensure work and life balance works for you, we also offer an array of resources to support you and your families, including comprehensive benefits and wellness plans.

At Rithum you will:

• Partner with the leading brands and retailers.
• Connect with passionate professionals who will help support your goals.
• Participate in an inclusive, welcoming work atmosphere.
• Achieve work-life balance through remote-first working conditions, generous time off, and wellness days.
• Receive industry-competitive compensation and total rewards benefits.

 

Benefits 

• Medical, dental and vision benefits: Affordable health care plans and company HSA contributions, starting on Day 1
• A 6% 401(k) match
• Competitive time off package with 20 days of Paid Time Off, 9 Company-Paid holidays, 2 paid floating holidays, 7 paid sick days, 2 Wellness days, and 1 Paid Volunteer Day; at 3 years of service PTO increases to 22 days, and at 5 years it increases to 25 days
• 12 weeks primary caregiver leave & 4 weeks secondary caregiver leave
• Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance
• Pet insurance
• Legal assistance and identity theft insurance plans
• Life insurance 2x salary
• Access to the Calm app and the Employee Assistance Program
• $65/month Remote work stipend for internet
• Culture and team-building activities
• Tuition assistance
• Career development opportunities
• Charitable contribution match up to $250 per year

 

Rithum is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other protected characteristic. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations in accordance with the law for qualified applicants. If you require assistance during the interview process due to a medical condition or need support accessing our website or completing the application process, please reach out to us by completing the Accommodations Request Form. Your comfort and accessibility are important to us, and we're here to ensure a seamless experience as you explore opportunities with our team.