Job Description

As a Marketing Designer II at Axelerant, you’ll play a critical role in crafting compelling narratives, visually articulating messaging, and helping to understand the user and business needs. We’re looking for someone to own the creation and maintenance of our marketing assets and content created to support sales and marketing goals. From concept through execution, you will improve our user experience by bringing our brand to life and keeping it consistent across all our various touchpoints.

One of the critical aspects of your role is a thorough understanding of the right balance between business, design, and our personas and serving our brand’s purpose, business missions.

A Marketing Designer II at Axelerant could progress to a Senior Marketing Designer role within three years.

Responsibilities
As our marketing designer, your responsibilities will include areas of design such as typography, iconography, color, illustration, and images. You will use your knowledge, expertise, and skills in all these fields to help our users successfully navigate and become comfortable with our brand.

• Generate bright ideas, concepts, and designs of creative assets from beginning to end.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business/technical requirements into designs that are visually enticing, easy to use, and emotionally engaging while adhering to the brand standards.
• Conceptualize visuals for presentation decks, paid media assets, email layouts, social media assets, charts, and infographics.
• Create editorial layouts and design ebooks, brochures, white paper offer PDFs ready for web and print.
• Scope, create and refine brand master templates and content format editing to ensure style guide adherence, etc.
• Create high fidelity mockups from wireframes, sketches, and low fidelity prototypes.
• Produce brand standards, style guides, and design system libraries across mobile, tablet, and desktop.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience
• Proficiency with InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, InVision, Sketch, Google Slides, and Google Docs
• Strong portfolio of interaction, brand, and visual design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of print & digital environments.
• Self-starter who knows how to collaborate and reach out to others for help. Ability to work on multiple projects and deliver refined design in a pre-defined timeline.
• Be comfortable collaborating in design team reviews, sharing and brainstorming ideas with remote/distributed team
• Special Considerations
• Though you can work from home for all of Axelerant’s role, our salaries are typically paid per India-based compensation plans. Further, you might be required to have a two- to four-hour crossover with the 11 AM to 7 PM India (UTC+05:30) timezone each workday for meetings and coaching.

About Axelerant
We began as an idea in 2012 to build a unique, work from anywhere professional services organization with empowering benefits for our team members. Today, we have achieved that and are continuously improving our career, feedback, performance, and recognition management programs. Further, leadership can happen by anyone, at any time from within Axelerant’s team.

We’re a very collaborative bunch of enthusiastic achievers who are being open about how we’re doing it and kind to make people feel welcome in all that we do. So, when you’re excited about learning from and helping others – you’ll find a great home here.

Discover the Axelerant Difference
Axelerant is an open organization with fantastic team members and a rocking 4.8/5.0 Glassdoor rating. Our growing team of 100+ includes some of the best and brightest from around the world.

Diverse and Inclusive
We believe that a diverse and inclusive team is critical to our success as a global company. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Kindness and openness are core values at Axelerant, and when you qualify for a role, we will make an effort to include and accommodate you, even when that looks different than it seems for others. E.g., non-standard work hours, specialized work equipment, modified work agreements.

Remote & Flexible
All you need is a reliable Internet connection. Work from anywhere you’re comfortable and choose work hours to balance your life.

Unique Culture
Our culture is distinctive. We do everything in our power to create an empowered and fulfilling work environment for team members.

Professional Development
We’re always teaching and learning. Peer mentorship, life coaching, certifications, and training help our team members advance professionally.

International Events
We want you to attend events related to the things you care about. Get sponsored by us when you’re contributing to those events.

Retreats & Meetups
With annual retreats, quarterly town halls, and monthly celebrations, we never let remote get in the way of work or fun.

Leave Policy
52 weekends and 35 days per year of consolidated leave plus maternity, paternity, and sabbatical allowances.