Creative Designer Jobs

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Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents and Petco partners. We are 29,000 strong, working together across 1,500+ pet care centers, 250+ Vetco Total Care hospitals, hundreds of preventive care clinics, eight distribution centers and two support centers.
Petco is aggressively focusing on building out our retail media network offerings across marketing, data and cross functional partnerships to drive results for our vendors and advertisers. We are looking for a Sr, Art Direction who will be accountable for hands-on design and art direction of strategic omni-channel communications that help the advertisers within the Petco Adworks network be successful. This person will work across many marketing and merchandising departments to recommend strategic art direction and creative strategy. Having experience and proficiency in pushing for ongoing excellence, designing go to marketing creative assets for media, email, in store signage, print and other marketing materials is critical.
Key Duties

• Partner with copywriters throughout the creative development process to ensure seamless integration of verbal and visual communication, with attention to message hierarchy, emphasis, and story flow
• Support visual storytelling across a range of digital and print media - crafting engaging, impactful visual communications appropriately styled for each medium to ensure consistency of experience throughout the consumer shopping journey
• Communicate with Program Manager and Art Director on timely and consistent basis and engage in relevant status meetings to prioritize and manage timelines and deliverables
• Synthesize feedback from multiple stakeholders including outside vendors or brands, internal Petco marketing, internal Petco Retail Media team members and media partners
• Work as a part of a cross-functional creative team within Petco Adworks to support advertising brands and vendors in their creative executions within the Petco Adworks suite of offerings
• Adhere to project timelines and expectations for interim and final creative deliverables as established by the Program Lead
• Collaborate with Petco Enterprise creative team to maintain synergies across brand and vendor executions and to ensure brand creative is following Petco style guides
• Work within preferred project management system to streamline feedback and productivity with outside teams

Role Requirements

• Strong visual portfolio with expertise in omni-channel creative development, with focus across all levels of marketing funnel
• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university or equivalent experience
• Prior experience or knowledge of Retail Media Network offerings, Media creative executions and designing creative for media executions preferred
• 4-8 years experience working in marketing or advertising creative environments
• Previous experience working as a Graphic Designer in dedicated team
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and can flex to deliver a wide scope of creative asks from conceptual to executional
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, working excellence in Microsoft Suite
• Prior experience being client, vendor or leadership facing in key presentation moments, with comfort articulating design and strategy recommendations
• Organized, efficient and agile – able to meet deadlines with ease while working on multiple projects simultaneously

Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification.
The pay range(s) below are provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be different in other locations.
$87,100.00 - $130,700.00
Hourly or Salary Range will be reflected above. Exact rate of pay will be based on position, location, and experience level. For a more detailed overview of Petco Total Rewards, including health and financial benefits, 401K, incentives, and PTO -see https://careers.petco.com/us/en/key-benefits