Design Manager, Compass
$95-110k
Monday - Thursday in office
4+ days a week in office
Real estate technology platform
Be an early applicant
Real estate technology platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$95-110k
Monday - Thursday in office
4+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone find their place in the world.
Role
Who you are
- A Creative Risk-Taker – Someone who isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo and redefine what corporate marketing looks like in real estate
- A Strong Leader – Experience managing and motivating designers, helping them grow while maintaining high creative standards
- An Effective Collaborator – Ability to work closely with leadership, incorporating strategic input while maintaining a strong design perspective
- A Master of Execution – Experience leading large-scale campaigns and projects from concept to completion, including delegation and resource management
- A Branding Expert – Deep understanding of branding, typography, color, layout, and visual storytelling
- Seven or more years of related work experience
- Portfolio demonstrating exceptional and highly creative design
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
- Experience in creating graphics for different social media platforms
- Extraordinary attention to detail and the ability to produce error-free work
- Proven ability to uphold established creative standards and brand consistency across all projects
- Proficiency in AI-powered creative tools such as ChatGPT, DALL-E, Adobe Firefly
- Demonstrated expertise in applying generative AI to creative and design workflows, with a proven ability to develop scalable prompt systems, evaluation frameworks, and team practices
- Strong understanding of spatial design and the ability to execute impactful large-scale installations; prior work in environmental of experiential design is a plus
- A passion for design, ability to anticipate and stay abreast of graphic design trends
- Strong creative thinking, aesthetic and layout skills
- Impeccable file management, organizational and time management skills
What the job involves
- @properties, a brand under Compass, is looking for a visionary Design Manager to drive groundbreaking corporate marketing that sets our brand apart. This role requires a bold creative leader who thrives on pushing boundaries, developing innovative marketing campaigns, and inspiring a team of designers to elevate the brand
- Working closely with internal stakeholders, the Design Manager will play a critical role in executing high-impact corporate marketing initiatives, ensuring our visual storytelling and brand identity remain at the forefront of the real estate industry
- Lead and Inspire: Manage and mentor the day to day of a team of graphic designers, leading weekly meetings, fostering collaboration, and encouraging creativity that pushes industry norms
- Innovate & Execute: Develop and oversee cutting-edge corporate marketing campaigns that enhance brand visibility and engagement
- Big-Picture Thinking: Spearhead large-scale projects and events, ensuring seamless execution while delegating tasks efficiently across the team
- Strategic Collaboration: Partner with internal stakeholders to bring fresh ideas to life, ensuring alignment with brand goals and market trends
- AI Design Leadership: Owns and evolves the use of AI across creative and design processes. Defines standards, workflows, and best practices that integrate AI into concept development, production, and iteration while maintaining brand quality and creative integrity
- Team Enablement & Education: Coaches and upskills the design team in advanced AI-assisted design methods, driving more strategic, efficient, and sophisticated use of AI
- Creative Oversight & Feedback: Ensure all corporate marketing materials—digital, print, and experiential—are visually compelling, cohesive, and strategically aligned, providing initial design feedback to the team. Projects will include but are not limited to event brand identities, video concepts and storyboards, animated graphics, print collateral, strategic brand campaigns, print and digital advertisements, email campaigns, social media graphics, signage, presentations, large-scale event collateral, and experitiental activations
- Project Management: Balance creative vision with practical execution, managing timelines, deliverables, and internal expectations
- Embraces Innovation: Continuously explores new design trends, AI tools, and emerging technologies to enhance creative output
- Future-Focused Mindset: Anticipates industry shifts and proactively adjusts strategies to keep the team and brand at the forefront of design innovation
Our take
Compass uses an AI-driven platform to smooth out and speed up the process of buying, selling, or renting property. It functions much like a traditional broker, but employs tech to reduce the time, uncertainty, cost and friction of transactions for buyers, sellers & agents.
It's disrupting a sector so far largely averse to tech innovation, allowing users to close deals in less time than the industry average of 30-45 days. Compass is now the largest independent real estate brokerage in the USA, with over 29,000 agents nationwide.
Recently, Compass acquired Anywhere Real Estate in a major leap that cements its place among the biggest players in US property. By uniting leading brokerage brands and expanding its agent network on a massive scale, Compass strengthens both its readch and its techn-driven platfrom. The move add new revenue opportunities and efficiencies, positioning the company to navigate today's tough housing market and shape the future of real estate.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jul 2019
$370m
SERIES G
Sep 2018
$400m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Robert Reffkin
(Founder & CEO)After 2 years at McKinsey, Robert worked as a Lazard Associate and White House Fellow. They joined Goldman Sachs in 2006, where they worked as VP of Principal Investment before leaving in 2012 to found Compass. Alongside this, Robert ran 50 marathons in 50 states to raise $1 million dollars for for youth education and enrichment programs.
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