Email Designer
WITHIN
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Job summary
WITHIN is seeking an Email Designer to join the Lifecycle team in New York. You will translate campaign strategies and brand guidelines into on-brand email designs across lifecycle touchpoints, from promotions to automated journeys, delivering visually compelling, mobile-first experiences.
The ideal candidate has 2+ years of digital design experience, a strong portfolio, and proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
Qualifications
- 2+ years of professional digital design experience, ideally with email/CRM marketing creative.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating digital design work and visual fundamentals.
- Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Strong understanding of typography, layout, hierarchy, color, imagery, and brand consistency.
- Experience designing responsive, mobile-first digital experiences.
- Understanding of email-specific design considerations and limitations.
- Ability to work within established brand guidelines while elevating the creative.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to deliver polished work in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines simultaneously.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Comfortable receiving, interpreting, and incorporating creative feedback.
Responsibilities
- Design engaging, high-quality email creative for a portfolio of client brands.
- Translate briefs, campaign strategies, and brand guidelines into effective email designs.
- Create designs for promotional campaigns, product launches, newsletters, triggered communications, and automated lifecycle journeys.
- Develop reusable email templates and modular design systems for efficient campaigns.
- Design with a mobile-first and responsive mindset for various devices.
- Apply email design best practices around hierarchy, readability, accessibility, CTA placement, and conversion.
- Collaborate with copywriters, Lifecycle strategists, account teams, and Email/CRM developers from concept to execution.
- Prepare and organize design files for developer handoff.
- Incorporate client and internal feedback while maintaining brand consistency.
- Manage multiple projects across different clients and campaigns.
- Stay current on email, CRM, e-commerce, and digital design trends; bring new ideas.
- Use performance insights and learnings to improve creative approaches.
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Job description
About the RoleWITHIN is looking for an Email Designer to join our Lifecycle team. In this role, you’ll create compelling, on‑brand email experiences that help our clients engage customers and drive measurable business results.
You’ll be responsible for translating campaign strategies, creative briefs, and brand guidelines into polished email designs across a variety of lifecycle touchpoints—from promotional campaigns and product launches to automated journeys and retention programs.
The ideal candidate combines strong visual design fundamentals with an understanding of how people engage with content in the inbox. You’re comfortable working across multiple brands, collaborating with strategists, copywriters, and developers, and designing within the unique constraints and best practices of email.
- Design engaging, high-quality email creative for a portfolio of client brands
- Translate creative briefs, campaign strategies, and brand guidelines into effective email designs
- Create designs for promotional campaigns, product launches, newsletters, triggered communications, and automated lifecycle journeys
- Develop reusable email templates and modular design systems that allow teams to create campaigns efficiently and consistently
- Design with a mobile-first and responsive mindset, considering how layouts and content will adapt across devices
- Apply email design best practices around hierarchy, readability, accessibility, CTA placement, and conversion
- Partner closely with copywriters, Lifecycle strategists, account teams, and Email/CRM developers to bring campaigns from concept through execution
- Prepare and organize design files and assets for efficient developer handoff
- Incorporate client and internal feedback while maintaining brand consistency and design quality
- Manage multiple projects and deadlines across different clients and campaigns
- Stay current on email, CRM, e-commerce, and digital design trends and bring new ideas to the team
- Use performance insights and campaign learnings to continuously improve creative approaches
- 2+ years of professional digital design experience, ideally with experience designing email, CRM, lifecycle, or e-commerce marketing creative
- A strong portfolio demonstrating digital design work and strong visual design fundamentals
- Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop and Illustrator
- Strong understanding of typography, layout, hierarchy, color, imagery, and brand consistency
- Experience designing responsive, mobile-first digital experiences
- Understanding of email-specific design considerations and limitations
- Ability to work within established brand guidelines while finding opportunities to elevate the creative
- Strong attention to detail and ability to deliver polished work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines simultaneously
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Comfortable receiving, interpreting, and incorporating creative feedback
- Experience designing lifecycle marketing programs or automated customer journeys
- Experience working with DTC, e-commerce, or consumer brands
- Familiarity with platforms such as Klaviyo, Braze, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or Attentive
- Familiarity with email QA and testing tools such as Litmus or Email on Acid
- Basic understanding of HTML/CSS and how email designs are translated into responsive builds
- Experience creating or maintaining modular email design systems
- Experience using performance data, A/B testing results, or customer insights to inform creative decisions
- Experience working in an agency or other fast-paced, multi-client environment
- Excel and Typing Test
- Base salary DOE
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Monthly Phone Stipend
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance options
- 401(K) plan with matching
- Dog friendly office
- Professional Development Program
- Base salary DOE
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Monthly phone/internet and food stipend
- Health insurance coverage
- Professional Development Program
- This is a fully in-office role. Candidates must be available to work on‑site five days a week. (Based in Bogota)
WITHIN is the world's first Performance Branding company, partnering with some of the biggest brands in the world to drive business growth through innovative marketing strategies. Our integrated operating model collapses the traditional marketing silos between creative and media, performance and brand, and across media channels. With a full suite of offerings including media, creative, SEO, Lifecycle, Retail Media, Affiliate and Influencer, we’re able to work with our brand partners in an integrated fashion, allowing us to align marketing strategies back to core business objectives. Client teams at WITHIN are trained on how to always act as a trusted business partner, acting as a fiduciary to client needs above our own.
Teams at WITHIN have the ability to work with iconic brands such as The North Face, Timberland, Ben and Jerry's and Jose Cuervo. Everyone at WITHIN wants to grow and be challenged. It’s a collaborative place made up of small, closely knit and versatile teams that are fast and adaptive to solve problems and build systems.
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We weave AI into everything we do, using the latest tech across all teams to innovate, work smarter, and make better decisions. Whether it’s in creative, operations, or anything else, AI helps us level up and do things at a whole new scale. We expect our people to use AI in their daily work, fully embracing it as a critical tool to help us succeed.
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