Designer, Shark
Marketing is one of the largest teams at SharkNinja. The team includes Digital, Brand, D2C, Media, PR and Creative. Each team focusing on how we give our consumers the ultimate product experience. Marketing is for the person that is not afraid to dive deep and show a genuine interest into the world of Consumer Goods. These are the people that are consistently asking themselves what can we do to we make things even easier for our consumers. Marketing at SharkNinja is for the person who is never satisfied with creating anything less than the best product on the market.
At SharkNinja, our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day, whether that’s with our 5-star products, our customer service, or even our tweets. We thrive on passion and innovation, and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to create the next big thing. We take a team approach to our projects—everyone has a voice. We’re not just saying that. We want individuals to push limits, look outside the box and think the unthinkable. And we’re willing to bet it’s this commitment to making better products and happier employees that’s contributed to our explosive growth. So, we’re looking for motivated individuals to join us on this exciting ride. We need people who think big, move fast and want to make a significant impact. Are you game?
Learn more about SharkNinja's innovative approach to thinking and how it’s helping us “positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world,” here:
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We're looking for a Designer to join SharkNinja’s Creative Team. The ideal candidate should be versatile and able design, think and work across all platforms for all of the SharkNinja brands. Our culture is fast-growing, fast-paced and unpredictable. (We know everyone says this, but seriously, we mean it.) There’s a real opportunity to do creative work you can be proud of and make a significant impact on our lifestyle-driven consumer brands.
A good candidate has a robust knowledge of design and branding, and is ready to roll their sleeves up and get to work. She/he is curious, conceptual, driven and versatile. As a member of the Creative Department, the Designer will develop designs for in-store instances including packaging and displays. Ability to jump into digital design work (social campaigns, videos, websites, apps, and email) is a plus. Experience and a passion for bringing product stories to life and creating brand loyalty is a must.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Brand Marketing, Product, Digital and Creative team members from beginning stages to final execution for ongoing and seasonal in-store visuals.
- Present product concepts and mocked-up visuals to senior executives; iterate with direct cross-functional feedback.
- Influence cross-functional teams (Brand Marketing, Product Marketing, Engineering, and Quality) to develop product concepts, including: manifestos, product definitions, and marketing campaigns
- Ensure creative consistency across channels
- Support department when needed across a range of projects (while primary focus is in-store creative, there may be times when he/she needs to roll up his/her sleeves and help with things like presentations, marketing campaigns, and digital creative)
Required Skills, Mindset, and Functional Expertise
- An impressive portfolio with a demonstration of creative problem solving skills across a range of mediums, with heavy focus on packaging and in-store display.
- Understanding of point of purchase, comfortable with current trends, excited about learning new ones.
- Experience with pre-production, offset, and digital printing.
- Working understanding of the customers purchasing experience; research, point-of-purchase, out of box experience.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort level with fast-paced, highly iterative environment, with a passion for constantly driving for better answers
- Team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to change and able to drive action in the face of ambiguity
- Detail- and action-oriented with can-do attitude and “how can we” thinking
- Open to being challenged and believes constructive feedback drives better results and outcomes
- Comfort level presenting to, directly communicating with and being challenged by senior leadership
- Desire to becoming fully versed in our products and be able to conceptually and visually bring them to life
- Maintaining focus on the consumer; so that all product communication is as consistent and impactful as possible
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years agency or creative department experience
- Depth of printing experience and current with latest techniques and best-practices
- Proficient with the Adobe CS family of programs
Who is SharkNinja?
At SharkNinja, our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world. We work very hard to provide our consumers with high quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation, and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to create the next big thing. We take a team approach to our projects, where everyone has a voice. We want individuals to push limits, look outside the box and think the unthinkable. With the explosive growth we have been experiencing, we’re looking for motivated individuals to join us on our exciting journey. People need to think big, move fast and want to make a significant impact. Are you ready?