Freelance Digital Designer
6 month+ contract
(Must be based in any US time zone)

Blurb® is an indie publishing and marketing platform-we help people create, publish, and sell one-of-a-kind books. What kind of books? Any kind you can imagine-in print book, ebook, and magazine formats.

On the Brand and Creative team, we have the enviable job of telling the world about not only the fantastic publishing platform we've created but the incredible books that our global community of customers publishes daily. As a company, we believe that everyone has a story to tell-and it's our job to help them discover how to put it into print. And with Blurb growing and innovating, it's truly an exciting time in the brand's journey.

Your Role

As the Freelance Digital Designer, you'll collaborate with a kind, passionate, and dedicated team to ideate and develop innovative marketing campaigns and best-in-class designs for Blurb's digital channels. You'll be extremely hands-on and creative in order to conceptualize designs for email, landing pages, digital ads, and campaigns. You'll work fully remotely and report to the Senior Art Director.

On a day-to-day basis, you'll

• Design for various platforms and media, including email, web, interactive, motion and social -maintaining high and consistent creative quality and output while applying brand guidelines
• Partner with the copy, content, web, digital, and email teams to translate briefs into actionable, channel-appropriate creative, campaigns, and promotions that inspire and meet business goals
• Contribute to new ideas, trends, and innovative solutions in weekly brainstorms
• Lead presentations and effectively communicate a creative vision-working closely with key stakeholders and teams
• Collaborate with production partners to ensure accuracy and quality of designs once coded
• Manage and execute the entire creative process efficiently and on schedule, working with project managers and creative leadership to ensure that schedules are accurate and realistic, and deadlines are met
• Continually deepen your knowledge of Blurb products, experiences, and customers- including niche prosumers and professional audiences like photographers, graphic designers, and artists

About you

To thrive as a freelance digital designer at Blurb, you have:

• 4+ years of hands-on demonstrated success and expertise in design, typography, color theory, web, email, image selection, and photo editing for consumer-focused brands (mix of in-house and agency work preferred)
• Strong graphic design, typography, compositing, photo editing, and layout skills for projects ranging from interactive to email to social to motion to experiential to broadcast. Plus, the ability to motivate and inspire against assigned projects
• Demonstrated ability (and excitement) to be in the design trenches

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  Digital-centric portfolio and sample projects submission are required during the interview process.

About Blurb/RPI

Blurb®, the flagship brand of RPI's eCommerce Division, is a software driven self-publishing platform that unleashes the creative genius inside everyone. Blurb's platform makes it easy to create, design, publish, promote, and sell professional-quality printed Photo books, Trade books, Journals, Magazines, and eBooks. Blurb authors have created millions of books using our full suite of free book-making tools and Adobe Creative Cloud integrations. Find us online at www.blurb.com