Overview

Are you passionate about communicating ideas and products to potential customers in creative and visually compelling ways? Do you like testing your ideas, utilizing the latest analysis tools, and challenging yourself as a digital creative professional? As a marketing designer at Automattic, you’ll work alongside front-end developers, SEO experts, and content architects to craft a range of communications that empower Automattic’s mission to democratize voice.

A few of our requirements for this role:

  • You have a portfolio of visually consistent and relevant advertising and marketing work, across various channels including email, web, mobile, and print, that you’re proud to share with us. Include it as a link in your application.
  • You are comfortable with conceptualizing and assisting the creative direction of digital and offline marketing campaigns from initial market research to front-end implementation.
  • You have industry or agency experience for diverse projects and clients and a proven record of improving conversion rates. Experience with A/B testing, especially on marketing sites, is a plus.
  • You have a strong understanding of design principles including layout, typography, psychology, and HTML/CSS. JavaScript experience is a plus.
  • You collaborate closely with product managers, teammates, and other designers to ensure campaign and strategic goals are met.
  • You have excellent written communication skills, know how to receive and deliver constructive criticism, and work well in a team.

All of our positions require:

  • Great communication skills.We’re a distributed team, so frequent and clear written communication is a must.
  • Self-driven work ethic.You need to be a self-starter who loves taking initiative and seeing things through to completion.
  • Curiosity and the desire to learn.Our business is changing and growing fast, who knows what will be the skills of tomorrow? Flexibility is key.

Does this sound interesting? If yes, let us know what you can contribute to the team. We are lucky to receive hundreds of applications for every position, so try to make your application stand out in your application letter by telling us why you’d like to join Automattic.

Pro-tip: Make sure you spell and capitalize WordPress and Automattic correctly — note the capital W and P, and also the two Ts in automaTTic.

About Automattic

Automattic wants to make the web a better place. Our family includes Jetpack, WooCommerce, Longreads, WordPress.com, and more. With WordPress.com, you can create beautiful websites and blogs for free and enhance those sites with our premium services. A fully distributed company, Automattic — celebrating ten years in 2015 — has over 500 staff in more than 50 countries.

Want to make the web a better place for more than a billion people each month? We’re hiring. Everyone works from the location they choose. We’re spread out all over the world in more than 50 countries. We track about 70 percent of our projects on P2-themed WordPress.com blogs, 25 percent in private chat rooms, and the rest on Slack. Because of the geographic variance, we’re active 24/7. We care about the work you produce, not just the hours you put in.

BENEFITS

• Open vacation policy (no set number of days per year). We encourage all employees to take the time they need for vacation, to pursue their own interests, to stay healthy, and to spend time with friends and family.
• Home office setup and coworking allowances. Working from a coffee shop? You can use your coworking allowance for the requisite latte!
• We happily provide or reimburse hardware and software you’ll need, as well as books or conferences that promote continued learning.
• Company-sponsored life insurance.
• Open maternity/paternity leave. If you’ve been with Automattic for 12 months, your leave is fully paid.
• WordPress-branded laptop at your four-year anniversary. A spiffy set of wireless headphones at your seven-year anniversary.
• Paid two to three-month sabbatical encouraged every five years.
• We cover all costs of company travel, so dust off that passport! Your team will get together one to three times per year in locations around the globe.
• Other benefits are country-specific, and include health, vision, and dental insurance; matching retirement/pension contributions; childcare vouchers; income protection; travel insurance; and discount offers.