Manager, Marketing Creative
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About the Role
AfterShip is hiring a Manager, Marketing Creative to build, lead, and reinvent the Marketing Creative team. You will hire and develop designers, evolve the brand system, and direct creative across campaigns and product launches.
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Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and grow a high performing, distributed team of designers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development
- Set the creative vision for AfterShip's brand system, partnering closely with the VP, Marketing to evolve our identity
- Own creative direction across every marketing surface including paid campaigns, product launches, sales enablement, lifecycle marketing, social, email, and AfterShip.com
- Build and scale an AI powered creative production engine that combines cloud based workflows, automation, and design systems
- Create systems that empower non designers to self serve routine creative needs
- Lead creative planning and prioritization across Product Marketing, Growth, Partnerships, and other cross functional teams
- Manage external freelancers and creative agencies, providing clear direction and maintaining quality standards
- Continuously improve creative operations, processes, and team effectiveness
Requirements
- 3+ years of people management experience, with a proven track record of hiring, managing, coaching, and developing creative teams
- Experience building or scaling a creative organization, including establishing processes, workflows, and quality standards
- Direct experience leading or contributing to a brand evolution or rebrand
- Experience partnering cross functionally with Product Marketing, Growth, Partnerships, Product, and other stakeholders
- In house B2B SaaS or DTC e commerce experience preferred
- A strong point of view on modern visual identity and brand design
- AI fluent, with hands on experience leveraging AI tools to accelerate creative production
- Proven success leading distributed teams and collaborating across time zones
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About Us
- AfterShip is transforming the global eCommerce landscape as a post purchase SaaS company.
- Founded in 2012, AfterShip unifies shipping & labels, order tracking, AI predictive delivery, and returns management.
- Over 20,000 businesses rely on AfterShip to build trust, reduce costs, and drive repeat purchases.
Your Mission
- We're hiring a people leader to build, lead, and reinvent our Marketing Creative team.
- You'll hire, develop, and inspire a team of designers while evolving AfterShip's brand system.
- This is a builder role to design a modern, AI powered creative production engine.
What You'll Do
- Build, lead, and grow a high performing, distributed team of designers.
- Set the creative vision for AfterShip's brand system.
- Own creative direction across every marketing surface.
- Build and scale an AI powered creative production engine.
- Create systems that empower non designers to self serve routine creative needs.
- Lead creative planning and prioritization across cross functional teams.
- Manage external freelancers and creative agencies.
- Continuously improve creative operations, processes, and team effectiveness.
Who We're Looking For
- 3+ years of people management experience with a proven track record of hiring, managing, coaching, and developing creative teams.
- Experience building or scaling a creative organization.
- Direct experience leading or contributing to a brand evolution or rebrand.
- Experience partnering cross functionally with Product Marketing, Growth, Partnerships, Product, and other stakeholders.
- In house B2B SaaS or DTC e commerce experience preferred.
- A strong point of view on modern visual identity and brand design.
- AI fluent, with hands on experience leveraging AI tools to accelerate creative production.
- Proven success leading distributed teams and collaborating across time zones.
Why You Should Join Us
- Great Place to Work Certified.
- Innovative & Inclusive Culture.
- Ambitious Mission with Real Impact.
- Thrive & Grow with no ceiling to what you can achieve.
- Flexible Work Setup: remote first with hybrid flexible options in hub locations.
Salary range for this role
- CAD 110,000 CAD 145,000.
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