Digital Designer
Creative Department
Full- Time (Hybrid)
Norwalk, CT, US
OVERVIEW
If you love all things creative and wine, here’s a fantastic career opportunity with Direct Wines, Inc. We are looking for a highly motivated and talented digital designer to join our growing creative team. This candidate will be producing engaging, high impact digital content in line with the company’s brand, aesthetic, and marketing strategy. This includes social (Meta, Pinterest, TikTok), eCommerce, and email. They should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment—across multiple brands—providing high-quality creative to tight deadlines. They should be a team player that has good communication and organization skills, which are essential, as the role requires working closely with people across the business to develop projects from brief to execution.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain and design visual content across ecommerce sites
- Design marketing emails in line with the marketing brief
- Conceptualize new campaign ideas that are digital-first and consumer centric
- Produce high-quality, on-brand content, including designs and other multimedia assets for both paid and organic social
- Remain current on social media trends, tools, and best practices, incorporating new strategies and features into our paid media efforts
- Create detailed shot lists and mood boards that clearly convey the vision for photoshoots in internal or external content studios
- Collaborating with internal marketing and creative teams to ensure designs align with the brand aesthetic, while also meeting ecommerce best practices
- Work cross departmental with marketing, innovation, creative and wine planning teams
- Present creative concepts and designs to internal stakeholders, incorporating feedback and iterating as needed to achieve desired outcomes
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
- 3+ years of experience in digital design
- Previous experience in an agency or brand environment (preferred)
- A portfolio of relevant and impactful work
QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong understanding of branding and marketing
- Develop and execute smart creative solutions across multiple brands simultaneously
- Experience working with ecommerce websites
- Passion for social media and a deep understanding of various social platforms, features and trends
- Comfortable working in a collaborative team environment
- Ability to clearly present ideas and concepts
- A team player with exceptional organizational and communication skills
- Ability to prioritize multiple projects and be proactive in your task and time management
- Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
- Working knowledge of Canva (a plus)
OUR COMPANY
Direct Wines, Inc. is a dynamic, innovative, wine-loving company that helps consumers across the U.S. discover exciting wines that are perfectly suited to their tastes – all with the convenience of home delivery. We are proud to provide a highly personalized wine service in partnership with licensed retailers Laithwaites and The Wall Street Journal – and we are passionate about consumer satisfaction.
As the leading Third Party Provider in the alcohol beverage industry, Direct Wines, Inc. provides professional services to licensed wine retailers across the US. These include access to national brands, marketing planning, and execution, logistics support for distribution management and customer service. We offer scalability and economies that individual, state-licensed retailers would struggle to deliver on their own. It is also the role of Direct Wines Inc. to ensure compliance in the highly regulated alcohol beverage industry.
BENEFITS
Full time employees also receive a complete benefit package including:
- Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
- Company paid Short-and Long-term Disability and Life Insurance
- 401(K) with employer match
- Paid time off (Vacation, Sick, Birthday)
- Employee wine discount
- Company paid WSET certification
Direct Wines is an equal opportunity employer committed to recognizing and expanding diversity in our work and our outreach to vendors and consumers. We prohibit discrimination against any applicant, employee or business partner based on any legally-recognized basis, including, but not limited to: race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age (40 and over), national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), veteran status, uniformed service-member status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.