Senior Art Director, Remitly
EMEA & APAC
3 days a week in office
International payments company
Be an early applicant
International payments company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.
Role
Who you are
- 6-8+ years of experience in visual design, digital design and execution across multiple channels
- Strong command of Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
- A proven track record of leading creative for campaigns or regions, with in-market results to show for it
- The ability to turn strategy and customer insight into compelling creative, with distinct conceptual directions rather than just stylistic variations
- Experience directing external agencies and raising the quality of their work
- Experience mentoring or coaching junior creatives
- Strong judgment and structured thinking when problems are ambiguous, plus the ability to build alignment and handle conflicting viewpoints constructively
- A track record of reliability, ownership and self-management in a hybrid environment
- Bonus: motion design skills, experience with AI creative tools for ideation and production, and experience presenting creative to senior stakeholders and partners
What the job involves
- Remitly's mission is to transform the lives of immigrants and their families by providing the most trusted financial services on the planet. Our EMEA & APAC Creative team makes work that connects with local cultures and drives business results across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, covering brand campaigns, digital performance, motion, broadcast and out-of-home
- As a Senior Art Director you'll be a senior specialist and project leader. You'll own regional creative from concept through delivery and optimisation. You'll work independently, hold the team to a higher quality bar, coach junior designers, and partner with global teams and external agencies to move Remitly's brand forward. You'll be accountable for measurable creative outcomes. This role is based in our London office (hybrid, 3 days onsite per week) and reports to the Creative Lead for EMEA & APAC
- Lead creative development for regional campaigns across brand and performance channels, making sure the work meets or exceeds the global quality bar
- Turn briefs into well-reasoned, insight-led concepts that bring clarity to ambiguous problems and put the customer first
- Own design projects end to end. You'll choose the methods, timelines and creative approaches that best achieve business objectives
- Review agency and partner work and push it higher, keeping it on-brand, accurate and excellent
- Audit existing creative using data, insight and market context to find ways to improve or optimise it
- Design with a global mindset, keeping non-English languages and localisation in mind from the start
- Communicate timelines, risks, blockers and dependencies before anyone has to ask, so stakeholders always know where things stand
- Work with global creative, marketing, brand and performance teams to bring regional needs into broader creative strategies, and speak for those needs in cross-functional forums
- Guide and coach junior designers, and help teams in different locations share what they know
- Find and put in place improvements to processes, templates and delivery that raise quality, efficiency and consistency across the team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Since its inception in 2011, Remitly has focussed on helping immigrants to send money across the world faster, cheaper and easier. The company has grown exponentially since then and now operates across multiple continents. Remitly put down most of its success on putting its customers first.
The emergence of digital banks with low transaction fees cross-country has increased competition in a space where Remitly was dominant for many years. The company must continue to innovate its product to ensure it is the go-to place for these types of payments.
That said, Remitly continues to partner with exciting companies and improve their service for loyal customers. The company is setting its sights beyond its core remittance service, such as through the introduction of Passbook, an app that allows customers to access digital banking through a partner bank.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Jul 2020
$85m
LATE VC
Jul 2019
$135m
SERIES E
Total funding: $435.8m
Company benefits
- Spend up to $1,000 per year on costs related to continuing education or on travel to countries Remitly serves, allowing you to gain insights to our customer’s journeys
- All of our office spaces offer our employees a place to collaborate and celebrate. With locally sourced artwork and vibrant designs, they create an environment that all can enjoy
- Fill your cup up outside of work and take advantage of our generous paid time off policies, leave policies, and flex working hours to ensure you are able to meet the demands of life outside of work
- Tap into the learning routines, resources and affinity groups Remitly provides to help you further your own DEI journey
- Contribute to the communities we serve through volunteering, employee giving, or civic advocacy
- Remitly provides rich benefit plans intended to cover the needs of our diverse teammates
Company HQ
Central Business District, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Matt Oppenheimer
(CEO & Co-Founder)After completing an M.B.A from Harvard Business School he worked as a Director for Barclays before founding Remitly in 2011.
Josh Hug
(Vice Chair & Co-Founder)He was a Director at Real Networks for 7 years before co-founding Shelfari, which was acquired by Amazon as he stayed onboard to run it as CEO.
Share this job
View 27 more jobs at Remitly