Performance Marketing Designer

About the role

The Performance Marketing Designer is a high-impact direct response design position on the Creative Team at Achieve, a leading financial services company. It offers a talented digital designer the opportunity to directly drive business growth and expand our team’s capabilities with innovative, highly engaging ads, emails and other digital creative.

Responsibilities

• Leverage AI content and collaborate with human writers to concept and design high-quality, engaging creative that test hypotheses, drive business results, and provide insights about our audiences.
• Utilize skills in video production, editing, and motion graphics to create compelling, eye-catching visual communications that resonate with our target audience for a range of channels including email, Meta, Tiktok, display, native and more.
• Support Brand design needs as business priorities require.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand business goals and challenges, identify creative testing opportunities, and drive creative testing that helps reach channel goals.
• Participate in group discussions and brainstorming sessions; be fully engaged, provide value, and stay solutions-oriented.
• Build strong relationships with fellow members of the Creative Team; share your ideas generously, support fellow team members as necessary, and celebrate their victories.
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality assets within deadlines.
• Adhere to all production processes, and help determine ways to improve current processes and/or create new ones.
• Embrace AI tools with proactive curiosity, exploring and finding time-saving solutions that you can share with the team.
• Take ownership in all your projects; be proactive in finding solutions to keep moving them forward.
• Ensure all projects are on brand and compliant to regulatory and legal requirements.
• Immerse yourself in each advertising channel to understand the targeting, user mindset, competitive landscape, and best practices.
• Harness these insights to craft powerful, channel-specific creative that resonates with users and drives results.
• Lead the charge in digital design innovation by staying ahead of current trends, pinpointing test-worthy opportunities, and spearheading discussions to cultivate creative hypotheses for rigorous testing.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience designing direct response creative; emails, digital ads, landing pages, and other digital acquisition user experiences.
• An online portfolio demonstrating a diverse range of creative, ideally including email and brand design as well as other direct response examples.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office Suite & Google Suite.
• Experience using AI tools to increase efficiency and output volume.
• Eager to learn on the job and proactively gain insights to inform design decisions.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to multitask and meet tight deadlines.
• Able to produce high volumes of work efficiently in a remote team-oriented environment.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills: especially the ability to articulate your creative choices to a non-creative audience.
• Familiarity with online marketing performance KPI and metrics and how to understand them.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on a performance creative team in a highly iterative testing culture.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience designing direct response emails, troubleshooting rendering issues and working directly with developers to implement.
• Experience creating ads for Meta, TikTok, and other social media platforms.
• Experience in and desire to grow skills in video production, editing, motion graphics, in programs such as Adobe Premiere and After Effects.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience working on a performance creative team in a highly iterative testing culture.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience designing direct response emails, troubleshooting rendering issues and working directly with developers to implement.
• Experience creating ads for Meta, TikTok, and other social media platforms.
• Experience in and desire to grow skills in video production, editing, motion graphics, in programs such as Adobe Premiere and After Effects.

Additional Information

• Achieve Well-being With Hybrid and remote work opportunities
• 401 (k) with employer match
• Medical, dental and vision with HSA and FSA options
• Competitive vacation and sick time off, as well as dedicated volunteer days
• Access to wellness support through Employee Assistance Program, Talkspace, and fitness discounts
• Up to $5,250 paid back to you on eligible education expenses
• Pet care discounts for your furry family members
• Financial support in times of hardship with our Achieve Care Fund
• A safe place to connect and a commitment to diversity and inclusion through our six employee resource groups
• Join Achieve, change the future
• At Achieve, we’re changing millions of lives. From the single parent trying to catch up on bills to the entrepreneur needing a loan for the next phase of growth, you’ll get to be a part of their journey to a better financial future.
• We’re proud to have over 3,000 employees in mostly hybrid and 100% remote roles across the United States with hubs in Arizona, California, and Texas.
• We are strategically growing our teams with more remote, work-from-home opportunities every day to better serve our members.
• A career at Achieve is more than a job—it’s a place where you can make a true impact, have a sense of belonging, establish a fulfilling career, and put your well-being first.