Marketing Designer

About Caribou 

At Caribou, we’re on a mission to help drivers save money and take control of their car payments. Caribou does this by using technology to unlock low rates, and people to make the process easy and enjoyable. We offer a fully online application and a dedicated team to walk you through the process. We put Drivers in control.

In the last year alone, we grew revenue by 5x and raised a $50M Series B. We’re built by leaders from the technology, automotive, and finance industries, and we’re proud to be backed by a great team of venture capital investors, including QED Investors, Goldman Sachs, Moderne Ventures, Accomplice, Link Ventures, Motley Fool Ventures and others.

About the Role

Caribou is looking for a Marketing Designer to be a critical part of conceptualizing and creating assets that meet the needs of Caribou’s rapidly growing customer base. As part of the design team, the Marketing Designer will report to the Marketing Design Lead and work closely with the design team and stakeholders across Marketing to produce on-brand designs that create a seamless user experience and elevate our brand. The ideal candidate will promote and practice user-centered design in creating deliverables across landing pages, email, social platforms and digital advertising campaigns, to name a few. The Marketing Designer will:

• Maintain the look and feel of our brands’ visual style while finding new and exciting ways to translate our visually identity and think cohesively across various touchpoints
• Design for projects that include, but are not limited to marketing campaigns, ads, landing pages, social media, emails and internal facing design
• Collaborate closely with internal teams to help ensure that the strategic goals and objectives are met
• Build design concepts that concentrate on the end user of the product, help them best understand the key messaging and call to action, and arrange the information hierarchy accordingly

This role can be based out of Caribou offices in Washington, DC; Denver, CO; Austin, TX. Alternatively, the role may be based remotely within the U.S. This role requires attendance at occasional in-person team meetings. Caribou currently requires that all personnel and visitors to any of its offices are fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.  As a result, candidates must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be eligible for this position (subject to any exemptions or accommodations due to medical or religious reasons).

About You

You are a talented and experienced graphic designer who is looking to join a fast-paced, high-growth Marketing team. You are results oriented, and a quick learner who loves being challenged to grow quickly and take on more responsibility. You have/are:

• A BFA or BA in Graphic Design or equivalent program or
• At least 3 years of digital design experience (experience working on an in-house team is a huge plus)
• A Working knowledge of interface design (UI, UX)
• A Strong portfolio of work displaying a range of digital media applications, for example: web, email, digital ads, social, etc. 
• Excellent communication skills, organization and time management skills
• A team-player, collaborator, problem solver and owner with a passion for detail
• An expert in Adobe Creative Suite (ie: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Presentation Software (ie: Keynote), Google Suite
• Animation, motion graphic, and illustration expertise is a huge plus
• Knowledge of Sketch and Figma is a plus
• A working knowledge of HTML and CSS is a bonus

How we will take care of you

Everyone at Caribou is a valued team member, and we always strive to live up to our value Take Care of Each Other. Our compensation and benefits package includes: 

• Competitive base salary compensation: $75K-100K
• Equity in a high growth startup
• Fantastic health, dental, vision, and mental health insurance, and a generous PTO plan
• Company-paid for short & long term disability insurance and basic life insurance 
• Optional benefits include HSAs, FSAs, voluntary life insurance, and pet insurance.

Our Core Values

We come from all walks of life and are joined together by our shared values, which guide our work. This helps us improve life for our customers, our communities and our team members.

• See people as people
• Take care of each other
• Commit to the mission
• Move quickly and bravely
• Get better every day
• Seek truth

Caribou is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, marital status, military or protected veteran status, genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law. This position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above, and the scope and responsibilities are subject to change. A pre-employment background check is required as a condition of employment.