Contract Marketing Designer

Daffy; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Daffy is seeking an experienced Contract Marketing Designer to lead high-visibility marketing work during the end-of-year season, including Year in Review, landing pages, paid campaigns, and reusable templates.

You will work with the VP of Marketing to translate briefs into polished creative and develop scalable design systems in Figma and Claude for web, social, and presentations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of marketing, brand, or visual design experience.
• Strong portfolio across web, campaigns, social, and presentations.
• Fluency in building design systems in Figma and Claude, ready for engineering handoff.
• Experience creating scalable templates and systems for non-designers.
• Experience working within an established brand system and knowing when to push it forward.
• Ability to work independently, move quickly, and turn ambiguous briefs into polished creative.
• Strong communication skills collaborating with marketers, writers, engineers, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the design of our Year in Review and other high-visibility campaigns.
• Design and refresh key marketing landing pages and assets.
• Develop paid acquisition creative across channels and audiences.
• Create campaign concepts, illustrations, and social assets.
• Design presentations, one-pagers, and sales/partner materials.
• Build reusable templates and systems to empower the team.

Skills

Marketing design

Brand visual design

Design systems

Figma

Claude

Independent worker

Communication

Campaign assets

Tools

Figma

Claude

Job description

Daffy is a mission-driven organization focused on helping people be more generous, more often. We're looking for an experienced Contract Marketing Designer to join our team during our busiest stretch of the year: the end-of-year giving season.

You'll take ownership of high-visibility marketing work, including our annual Year in Review, key landing pages, paid campaigns, and a new set of reusable templates and systems our team can continue using in 2027.

We're looking for someone who can take a brief, quickly understand the goal, develop strong creative, and get polished work out the door without a lot of hand-holding.

Engagement: Contract, approximately 30 hours/week, November – February. We’d ideally have you start as soon as possible, with an overlap with our in-house designer before their parental leave.

What You'll Work On

This is a hands-on role spanning both consumer and business marketing. You’ll work closely with our VP of Marketing and wider marketing team on projects including:

• Owning the design of our annual Year in Review
• Designing and refreshing key marketing and campaign landing pages
• Developing paid acquisition creative across channels and audiences
• Creating campaign concepts, illustrations, and social assets
• Designing presentations, one-pagers, and sales/partner materials
• Building reusable templates and systems leveraging Figma and Claude that make it easier for our team to create great work independently
• Partnering with marketing and engineering to move work from concept through launch

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of marketing, brand, or visual design experience, ideally at a consumer fintech or high-growth venture-backed startup
• A strong portfolio demonstrating excellent visual judgment across web, campaigns, social, and presentations
• Fluency in building design systems in Figma and Claude, including preparing designs for engineering handoff
• Experience creating scalable templates and systems for non-designers
• Experience working within an established brand system while knowing when and how to push it forward
• The ability to work independently, move quickly, and turn ambiguous briefs into polished creative
• Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating closely with marketers, writers, engineers, and other stakeholders

Bonus Points

• Experience using AI tools to accelerate design exploration, production, or repetitive workflows
• Familiarity with financial services, charitable giving, employee benefits, or other complex products that require making information easy to understand

Location

Remote or Hybrid (Bay Area)

What's In It For You

• The opportunity to shape campaigns for one of the Top 10 donor-advised funds in the country, now managing over $2 billion in charitable assets.
• The chance to work with world-class founders, Adam Nash (Apple, eBay, LinkedIn, Wealthfront) and Alejandro Crosa (LinkedIn, Twitter, Slack), and a talented team united by a bold mission.
• A supportive, motivated team that cares deeply about our mission & our members.
• 2–3 examples of work most relevant to this role, including at least one landing page and one creative asset
• A short note on how you're using AI in your design workflow and how you’ve used it to help other non-designers
• Your hourly rate and availability from November through February

About Us

Aside is a venture-backed technology company on a mission to help people be more generous, more often. Founded by tech veterans Adam Nash (Wealthfront, Dropbox, LinkedIn) and Alejandro Crosa (Slack, Twitter, LinkedIn), Aside has raised over $30 million from Ribbit Capital, XYZ Ventures and Coinbase Ventures, along with more than 50 prominent angel investors.

Aside powers Daffy — the Donor-Advised Fund for You™ and one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies of 2024." When you join Aside, you'll be working on Daffy, a modern giving platform that's become one of the Top 10 Donor-Advised Funds in the U.S., with over $2 billion in charitable assets, and more than $500 million distributed — helping members set money aside for charity, invest tax-free, and donate to over 1.7 million U.S. charities.

At Aside, your work has a direct impact on a product people love, on a mission that matters, and on the future of giving!

Aside, Inc. is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity. It's important to us that people of all identities and backgrounds see themselves represented and included in our work, so we actively encourage people of all identities and backgrounds to apply.