Senior Design Manager, WeTransfer
Maternity Cover
Secure file transferring and creative collaboration tools
Job no longer available
Secure file transferring and creative collaboration tools
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To send big files around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years experience leading and designing high end digital interactive projects
- Experience with management in a similar role
- Experience inspiring, leading and managing designers and other creative disciplines
- Experience working in a fast paced agency environment
- Strong skills in UI visual design
- An eye and passion for details
- Understanding that with more responsibility comes more autonomy
- Stellar interpersonal and communication skills with both internal and external stakeholders
- Fluent in English (both written and spoken)
- Ability to handle multiple projects and be flexible and adaptable to client needs
- Actively scans the web for the best of the best inspiration, examples of our craft and shares your exciting finds with the team
- Ability to manage uncertainty and enjoys solving undefined problems
- Based in AMS (not open to relocation)
What the job involves
- As a Design Manager you’ll be part of our diverse, fast-paced advertising studio team, working alongside a talented team of designers, copywriters and developers to bring digital interactive ad experiences to life.
- You'll lead the crafting and execution of a wide range of digital projects and frequently collaborate with our brand, marketing and editorial teams
- Working in the Advertising Studio means you'll collaborate with top tier brands on leading campaigns, all while helping shape the evolution of advertising and the creative studio at WeTransfer
- Day to day, you’ll help with the management of our team including mentorship and investing in the success of your direct reports, leading initiatives that build the long term culture.
- You’ll champion our team and culture at a project and team level, share inspiration widely and be considered a tastemaker on the team.
- You will ensure that the team has everything they need to do their jobs to the highest standard and impact.
- You will also proactively propose and own the implementation of processes and tools to increase productivity and improve results
- You will work closely with Studio leadership and well as will the Advertisement Sales and Strategy teams to ensure we are planning and delivering on all our strategic priorities in the most aligned way.
- You will also ensure these priorities are clear for all Advertising Studio team members and in full alignment with our project planning and resource allocation
- You will be providing guidance and feedback to team members across all stages of projects, enabling the team to deliver engaging digital advertisements on our transfer platform and beyond.
- You have impeccable design skills, a passion for art & technology, and always actively scanning the web for the latest design trends.
- You’re naturally a strategic thinker and someone who is always looking to extend the boundaries of what’s possible in digital design
- Taking responsibility for the day-to-day management and career growth of your direct reports, as well as the team’s creative output and business impact
- Facilitate collaboration with our diverse team of designers and developers
- Lead pitches and craft presentations with supporting design concepts and mockups (static and animated)
- Provide hands on guidance to the team to ensure each project meets our creative guidelines and maintains a high degree of quality and innovation
- Mentor and lead all Designers that work alongside you on projects and provide constructive creative feedback
- Foster a collaborative, creative and inclusive learning environment
- Take ownership of internal initiatives that help inspire the team and streamline processes
- Foster strong and collaborative relationships with key internal stakeholders within the company
- Identify areas for growth and understand how to frame up opportunities for senior leadership to help action
- This is a maternity cover for 6 months starting in August
Our take
WeTransfer is a platform that allows users to send files quickly. The founders created the service with the aspiration to become the simplest way to send big files around the world.
The company differentiates itself through the fact that it's a certified B corporation. Even though WeTransfer is mainly known for its file-sharing service, the company operates a number of other services, such as Collect (tool encouraging creation and collaboration), Paper (sketching app) and Paste (collaborative presentation tool). One of the main goals of the organisation in the following period is to raise awareness of these services.
Over the coming years, WeTransfer is looking to continue its product development to ensure it remains competitive against the likes of Dropbox and Google Drive.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2019
$40.4m
SERIES B
Feb 2015
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $65.4m
Company benefits
- Learning and development budget - Raise your game from great to spectacular
- Talks and workshops - Make your brain bigger (or at least more full of stuff)
- Health and wellbeing budget - Ever wanted to try goat yoga?
- Lunch on us - Healthy, delicious food to keep your brain ticking along
- Flexible working - Keeping it virtual-first since 2020
- Summer hours - Get some extra Vitamin D during July and August with Fridays off
- Days off for personal milestones - Two consecutive paid days off to for big ‘life things’ (like—but not limited to—marriage, or a move)
- Charity leave - Take time to do nice things, on us
Company HQ
Omval, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Alexandar Vassilev
(CEO, not founder)They have extensive experience in engineering and product management. They were the former CEO of Joyn GmbH. Prior to becoming CEO at WeTransfer, they were the company's Chief Product and Technology Officer.
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