Marketing Design Manager

Location: Hybrid in Toronto

Job Type: Full Time - Permanent

Hours: Mon-Fri, 40 hours/week

If interested, please apply to this through our career site using the link provided:

https://jobs.lever.co/homestars/e9ca43ae-311a-4502-8f88-6497d048f317

Perks of joining HomeStars:

All our roles are currently remote. Office equipment supplied!
Equity in the business: Share in HomeStars’ success with a $5,000USD/year grant
Comprehensive benefits package. We want our employees to stay healthy!
Monthly wellness activities to support your mental and physical health
Home Improvement Credit: All employees receive a yearly credit to use toward a service from HomeStars
December Closure: Our whole team takes a break in the last week of December, every year
Personal Days: 5 extra days off per year, on top of vacation and sick days
Beautiful brick & beam office in the heart of Toronto’s entertainment district, including a rec room with lounge, ping pong, darts, and foosball

The Opportunity:

As the Marketing Design Manager at HomeStars, you will have the opportunity to be a part of an amazing growth story as we continue to expand our reach. You’ll be responsible for conceptualization to implementation of the design solution that meets Marketing and business strategies. This role focuses primarily on - 1. Elevating the HomeStars brand improving the overall Brand look/feel for optimized experience (landing pages, website design); 2. Design concept to production for various digital channels 3. Corporate and Sales enablement tools (One pagers, presentation templates, Banner creation) 4. Managing a direct report.

Your typical day at HomeStars:

Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Customer Success and other functional teams to ensure we design on brand and tell a compelling story to our customers.
Develop and recommend design strategies and collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure designs are on brand and accessible to users.
Conceptualize and build Impactful brand experiences that elevate the HomeStars brand identity into the future across various content development and distribution channels.
Brainstorm creative ideas with the marketing and other cross-functional teams.
Establish design guidelines, standards, best practices and build templates to empower all teams to scale leveraging brand elements in their collateral - Sales presentations, UX design and Email templates.
Coding in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to update WordPress sites. Generate business impact through testing and improving the design of the website, landing pages, and other marketing assets.
Maintain the function/impact of websites, emails by enforcing design standards and optimization techniques for performance goals.
Design visual imagery for websites and ensure that they are in line with branding.
Communicate and present to stakeholders design ideas using user flows, process flows, site maps, and wireframes. Incorporating functionalities and features into websites.
Mentor and manage other designers to support them achieve business & brand objectives

Must-have qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Design or a related experience.
Minimum 5 years experience working as a Marketing Designer or in a related field.
Experienced as a people manager or a function leader.
Expertise in designing for web and mobile.
Experience in designing for Salesforce Pardot.
Proficiency using Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Comfortable using Sketch and/or Figma. Bonus if you have experience with Premiere, After Effects, PowerPoint, and Canva.
Experience working in WordPress - able to code themes and plugins from scratch.
Experience in fundamental coding in HTML, CSS, PHP, JQuery, and JavaScript
Nice-to-have qualifications:
B2B marketing experience is an asset
Understanding of marketplaces, mobile apps and UI/UX design
Experience with Accessible design principles
Preferred previous experience
Marketing Manger
Graphic Designer
Marketing Design Manager

About HomeStars

HomeStars is Canada’s leading platform connecting homeowners with qualified service professionals for their home improvement needs. Every month, over half a million homeowners visit HomeStars to research and select the best-rated professionals nearby. Check out homestars.com to learn more!

HomeStars Core Values

Our Core Values are woven into everything we do. They guide how we behave, how we act, and what we will aspire to be. They underpin the culture of HomeStars and act as drivers for impact, personal growth, and collective performance.

Customer Obsessed: When our customers thrive, we thrive. We put their needs first.
Think Big: We think without limits. We believe in the possible.
Embrace Candor: We speak up, listen and challenge respectfully.
Act Like an Owner: We’re invested, we own our outcomes.
Bias for Action: We take action to accelerate our success. Speed matters.
We’re Stronger Together: Our differences empower us, our will to win unites us.

HomeStars has recently been recognized as:

Great Place to Work® CertifiedTM
Best Workplaces for Hybrid Work, Canada 2022
Best Workplaces Managed by Women, Canada 2021
Best Workplaces in Technology, Canada 2020
Best Workplaces for Today’s Youth, Canada 2020

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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