Senior Designer, Growth and Performance San Jose, California or Remote (PST hours preferred)

NEX; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Designer to join their dynamic team. This role focuses on creating engaging content that drives customer acquisition and enhances brand presence. You will collaborate with various teams to develop innovative design strategies and ensure high-quality execution in a fast-paced environment. With a commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technologies, this opportunity offers a front-row seat to the evolving gaming landscape. If you're passionate about design and eager to make an impact, this is the perfect chance to showcase your skills and grow within a product-driven culture.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Flexible working hours

Flexible vacation policy

Product-driven culture

Hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on user acquisition and social content experience required.
• Proficient in Adobe products and advanced design strategy.

Responsibilities

• Partner with various teams to create design strategies and shape the creative roadmap.
• Design content that drives meaningful customer engagement.

Skills

Critical thinking

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Advanced design strategy

User acquisition experience

Social content experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Design

Bachelor's Degree in Illustration

Bachelor's Degree in Video Production

Bachelor's Degree in Motion Graphics

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Job description

San Jose, California or Remote (PST hours preferred)

Nex is helping families reconnect with the joy of movement through fun, social, and interactive content that’s accessible to all ages. Its award-winning Nex Playground console, launched in December 2023, uses cutting-edge AI, mobile and vision technologies to merge digital and physical worlds, immersing players in the experience using their natural body movement. Nex Playground games range from original sports and fitness titles, to educational games and titles in collaboration with Hasbro and Sesame Workshop, Universal Dreamworks, Mattel, Paramount, and more.

Since its founding, Nex has been recognised as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has been awarded the prestigious Apple Design Award. Nex Playground is also kidSAFE+ COPPA certified, highlighting the company’s firm stance on privacy and safety for kids and families. To learn more, visit nex.inc or follow the company on Instagram and Facebook.

Location: Remote (USA only — PST hours preferred) with some office travel required
Annual salary: USD 125,000 to USD 150,000
Type: Full-time
Reports to: VP of Marketing

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Designer, Growth & Performance to work closely with the internal Growth, CRM, and Social teams, who can operate at a fast pace. Each group is a lean, hands-on team, that has worked on some of the industry's biggest games and brands, driving customer acquisition at scale.

The role will balance high-quality craft and crisp execution with agility and speed to iterate and learn. You may be a good match if you love to generate and test creative quickly, monitoring the latest social and UA design trends to drive big impact. You understand how to appeal to diverse segments, are able to take design risks, and how to look beyond the numbers to understand what customers really want and will engage with.

What You'll Do

• Partner with Growth, CRM, Social, Design, Data & Analytics, and Marketing to create well-articulated design strategies and shape the creative roadmap.
• Maintain full awareness of all aspects of the creative process from concept to approval.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to ensure brand standards and deadlines are met, keeping things moving in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Design content that drives meaningful customer engagement with measurable business impact.
• Develop creative assets for campaigns across multiple areas of Nex Playground business.
• Join design activities such as brainstorm and research sessions to support ongoing creative needs and brand development.
• Develop frameworks, guidelines, audits, and processes to help define and enhance marketing content development and throughput.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Design, Illustration, Video Production, Motion Graphics, or related field with a minimum of 7+ years of hands-on user acquisition and social content experience.
• Critical thinking, business understanding, communication, organizational skills, and advanced design strategy.
• Demonstrated metrics literacy, with experience defining, tracking, and reporting on content metrics through effective communication and presentation.
• Ability to adapt quickly and work independently in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
• Ability to multi-task with a demonstrated ability to work on multiple projects at the same time and meet project deadlines.
• Familiarity working with compliance and legal teams during the design and approval process.
• Proficiency in Adobe products or other relevant applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
• A portfolio or selection of past work to share.

Preferred Qualifications

• Illustration skills highly preferred.
• Ability to combine design elements with Motion graphics and Video Editing for short-form content.
• Interest and understanding of eCommerce, gaming, entertainment, toys, marketing & advertising trends of today’s media landscape, and how people engage with advertising.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation package.
• Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
• Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
• Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field.

Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.

We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!

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