Contractor - Email Designer

MNTN; United States; On-site; USD 82,656 - 123,984; Part time

Job summary

MNTN is seeking a senior email designer to refresh and modernize our library of marketing emails. You will redesign templates in Figma, create lightweight animations, and optimize deliverability while maintaining on-brand visuals.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of email design experience, a portfolio focused on email work, and deep knowledge of major email clients. This is a 3-month contract with potential extension.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing marketing emails.
• Portfolio focused on email design (not broader design).
• Expert proficiency in Figma.
• Strong understanding of email design constraints across major clients and devices.
• Experience balancing creative with technical realities like image weight and deliverability.
• Experience creating lightweight animations that improve engagement without hurting deliverability.
• Ability to translate performance insights into stronger creative and iterative design.

Responsibilities

• Redesign and modernize MNTN's library of email templates in Figma focused on performance, usability, and brand consistency.
• Design high-converting marketing emails that are concise, engaging, and optimized for click-through.
• Create lightweight animations and interactive elements that are email-client friendly.
• Apply email design best practices including hierarchy, scannability, mobile responsiveness, accessibility, and deliverability.
• Partner with Marketing to iterate quickly based on campaign goals and performance insights.
• Deliver organized, developer-friendly Figma files that are production-ready.

Skills

Email design

Figma

Campaign design

Accessibility

Deliverability

Tools

Figma

Job description

At MNTN, we put our people first, full stop. This allows our company culture to be defined by our team members and their shared values, like trust, ambition, quality, radical honesty, and compassionate leadership. It’s why we all really love working for the Hardest Working Software in Television™ (and also why we were named one of Ad Age’s Best Places To Work in 2025.)

We pride ourselves on bringing unrivaled performance and simplicity to Connected TV advertising. Our self-serve technology makes running TV ads as easy as search and social, helping brands drive measurable conversions, revenue, site visits, and more. It’s what led MNTN to being named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2023. You can learn more about us and everything we do by visiting https://mountain.com/.

We’re committed to innovation that empowers, not replaces. At MNTN, AI is a tool for growth, enhancing efficiency while keeping a people-first approach. Our goal is to streamline workflows and drive new solutions—without compromising the human element that makes our company great.

So if wanting to do more, own more, and make a bigger impact comes naturally to you, then you may be the person we’re looking for to join us in our next stage of growth.

You’ll partner closely with our internal teams to modernize our email program, beginning with a complete refresh of our existing templates before supporting ongoing campaign design. If you know how to simplify layouts, create lightweight animations, optimize for deliverability, and design emails that convert, we’d love to hear from you.

• Initial design exercise as part of the selection process
• 3-month contract to start, with potential for extension
• Phase 1: Redesign approximately 15 existing email templates over a 2–3 week period

What you’ll do

• Redesign and modernize MNTN's library of email templates in Figma with a focus on performance, usability, and brand consistency.
• Design high-converting marketing emails that are concise, engaging, and optimized for click‑through—not just aesthetics.
• Create lightweight animations and interactive elements that enhance engagement while remaining email-client friendly.
• Apply email design best practices, including hierarchy, scannability, mobile responsiveness, accessibility, and deliverability considerations.
• Partner with Marketing to iterate quickly based on campaign goals and performance insights.
• Deliver organized, developer-friendly Figma files that are production-ready.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years designing marketing emails, with a portfolio that demonstrates deep email expertise.
• A portfolio heavily focused on email design. We're specifically looking for email design work, not product design, web design, or broad marketing portfolios.
• Expert proficiency in Figma.
• Strong understanding of email design constraints across major email clients and devices.
• Experience designing emails that balance compelling creative with technical realities like image weight, rendering, spam considerations, and performance.
• Experience creating lightweight animations (GIFs or similar) that improve engagement without sacrificing deliverability.
• Ability to translate performance insights into stronger creative and continuously improve designs through iteration.

What success looks like

• Refreshes MNTN's existing library of 15 email templates within the first 2–3 weeks while elevating visual quality and usability.
• Delivers polished, on‑brand email designs that are optimized for engagement and production.
• Brings fresh ideas for simplifying layouts, improving scannability, and increasing email performance.
• Establishes a reliable rhythm of delivering 1–2 high-quality email designs each week after the initial template overhaul.

Please note: When applying, include a portfolio showcasing your email design work. We're specifically evaluating candidates with deep experience designing marketing emails and are not considering portfolios focused primarily on web, brand, or product design.

About MNTN

MNTN provides advertising software for brands to reach their audience across Connected TV, web, and mobile. MNTN Performance TV has redefined what it means to advertise on television, transforming Connected TV into a direct‑response, performance marketing channel. Our web retargeting has been leveraged by thousands of top brands for over a decade, driving billions of dollars in revenue.

Our solutions give advertisers total transparency and complete control over their campaigns all with the fastest go‑live in the industry. As a result, thousands of top brands have partnered with MNTN, including Tarte, Decked, and National University.