Business Insider is hiring a digital designer

The Subscription Marketing team at BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium subscription service, is seeking a Designer/Developer who will be responsible for the design (or adaptation of existing design work) and programming of all forms of emails and marketing assets. We are looking for designers who are passionate about front-end development and the creation of beautiful HTML emails, pages, and ads.

Focused on driving subscription business via these creative assets, the workload will be comprised of one-off requests, as well as recurring communications like:

• Direct-response marketing centric individual campaign/promotional emails
• Direct-response marketing centric display ads & landing/squeeze pages to convert users from: clicks to leads to subscribers/sales

This individual will be responsible for the on-time production and programming of all electronic communications listed above. All pieces will require a degree of individualized design.

Qualifications

• Experience with responsive design with an emphasis on direct-response marketing focused experience where layout/typography/readability/user-action take priority over ‘pretty’
• Experience with HTML (hand coding) and inline CSS including, but not limited to, text overlays, bulletproof buttons, and more that renders correctly across email clients, devices and browsers.
• Ability to convert Photoshop and/or Sketch files into full functioning HTML Templates
• Experience with designing emails containing personalization and dynamic content elements
• Knowledge of email clients, especially Gmail, and methods to employ in order to get emails to render consistently across many email clients with a strong sense of web design and user experience fundamentals
• Proficient in Photoshop and/or Sketch
• Familiarity with email testing tools (such as Litmus) and Email Service Providers (such as Sailthru)
• Must be able to furnish a portfolio of past e-communications projects and prove experience with responsive coding.
• The designer will be comfortable with smoothly accommodating a fluctuating production pipeline and many different personalities, preferable with agency experience.
• Creative design and programming tests will be administered to all selected candidates.

Requirements

• Knowledgeable about direct-marketing design practices.
• Able to create high-quality designs while understanding the final end-goals (such as direct-marketing vs brand-marketing).
• Capable of executing pixel-perfect responsive HTML email templates.
• Convert mockups to HTML email templates that meet the standards of most modern email clients (including Gmail, Apple Mail, and Outlook) and Display Ads.
• Identify and recommend coding standards and improvements.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Git, Responsive Design.
• JavaScript/jQuery knowledge preferred.

Please apply and share your portfolio here. Thanks in advance.