Art Director, OpenStore
Shopify business acquisition company
Job no longer available
Shopify business acquisition company
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide life-changing liquidity to ecommerce entrepreneurs.
Role
Who you are
- A successful candidate will be able to lead their projects and brands through great design, strategic thinking, partnership with x-functional stakeholders, all while being laser focused on driving revenue and contribution dollars for their brands
- Operating in a fast paced, often ambiguous environment is critical
- You take ownership
- You are comfortable driving projects end-to-end that execute and eliminate blockers, helping you and the company move fast with confidence
- You know when to raise your hand and ask for help
- You can work through ambiguity
- Your experience will enable you to focus on the elements that matter most and drive clear insights that inform the team’s priorities
- You love to learn
- You continually explore ways to improve your skills and knowledge through taking on new challenges and experiences
- You are collaborative, organized, and thoughtful
- You actively solicit teammate’s feedback and can get things done through informal influence
- You demonstrate judicious decision-making and embrace intellectual friction as a feature of improvement, not a relationship bug
- Experienced in dealing with ambiguity. Self starter who can work without a project manager. Equal parts designer and creative operations abilities
- Excellent communication skills and ability to partner will collaborate with x-functional partners
- Strong Understanding of typography, color theory, and layout
- Mastery of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite are a must. Bonus for After Effects and Premier experience
- Experiences in using project management tools like Clickup, Asana, and Monday
- Ability to manage and execute on multi-touch/channel projects
What the job involves
- The Marketing team is growing and we are looking for a thoughtful Art Director to lead all things design across our growing portfolio of 45+ brands
- The Art Director will play a crucial role in defining and executing the visual and creative direction of a select number of brands in our portfolio across a variety of channels
- The role is 50% hands on designing (roll up your sleeves and get into the day to day) and 50% art directing
- Candidates should be comfortable working across all things digital E-comm, new product launch campaigns, paid social, CRM, promo, and direct mail
- Lead Art Direction and design for brands across all channels. Developing creative for Promotional Events, Go To Market Campaigns, and Improving the Customer. Experience across our Storefronts (Shopify Web Experiences), Paid Social Ads (Meta and Tiktok), CRM and more
- On set and remote photo and video art direction
- Manage team of production designers and freelance support
- Collaborate with producers, copywriters and x-functional stakeholders
- Maintain and evolve brand guidelines
- Work from concept to execution across all channels
- Create new creative workflows, document, templatize, and implement them
- Conduct competitive research and stay up to date with trends, styles, aesthetics for your brands and categories
Our take
Founded in spring 2021, OpenStore helps entrepreneurs looking to sell their Shopify businesses. The platform buys businesses directly, making automated bid offers within 24 hours of a company submitting their details, and closing the deal in as little as 1 week with no transaction fees.
This is an improvement on legacy brokerage services, which typically take a hefty cut and can make for slow sales. It is likely to prove appealing to the 80% of small Shopify sellers reportedly amenable to acquisition. With the hefty investment they raised within months of being founded, which nearly tripled by winter, they are swiftly onboarding talent to scale up and refine their model.
It’s a model that sees OpenStore follow in the footsteps of other holding companies like Thrasio, who provide a similar service for Amazon brands and have enjoyed significant success. The concern here is whether or not OpenStore can hold its own against rivals turning their hands to the Shopify space, especially as this business model has been adopted by many new players like Pattern Brands and Perch. That being said, OpenStore appears to be keeping its head above the water, having closed a funding round of $32 million led by Lux Capital in September 2022.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2022
$32m
LATE VC
Nov 2021
$75m
SERIES B
Total funding: $137m
Company HQ
Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL
Articles
Leadership
Matt Lanter
(Head of Product)Matt has previoudly been Chief of Staff at Founders Fund to Keith Rabois. Before this, they served as Engineering Manager at OpenDoor, and Technical Lead at Facebook.
Jeremy Wood
(Head of Engineering)Previously worked in Engineering at One Kings Lane and Google.
Michael Rubenstein
(President)Previously Founder & General Manager of DoubleClick Ad Exchange (which later became part of Google). Since then, has been on Board of Directors at IAB and President & Board of Directors at AppNexus (later rebranded as Xandr).
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