Designer – Yahoo Creative

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

Yahoo Creative Mission

Deliver world-class advertising solutions through our creative and technical expertise to maximize value for our advertisers and partners.

Yahoo Creative is a full-stack global creative solution that allows advertisers to take full advantage of a team of creative experts to help scale their campaigns either across the Yahoo DSP or through unique proprietary formats across our range of iconic publishers. From pre-sales ideation to post-sales execution; the team supports everything in between including creative design, development, testing and implementation. The global, cross functional team protects and enables revenue while maintaining the integrity of the user experience across all Yahoo’s brands.

The Design Team & This Role

Yahoo Creative has a global team of Designs across the U.S.A and UK. We strive to maintain a lively and energetic culture rooted in strong communication, transparency in process and global cross-team collaboration. We passionately support career growth, continuing education, training and development for our designers at all levels.  Yahoo Creative Design creatively supports all features and formats across the Yahoo ecosystem with this role focused on delivering high-quality design execution of our proprietary formats and other solutions specific to our publishers (Yahoo Homepage, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance etc).

About You

• Curious by nature and constantly enjoy learning and being challenged with a wide variety of responsibilities.

• Love working with diverse colleagues, clients, teams and also bring your own voice, energy and unique strengths to the team.

• Verbal and written communication skills are impeccable and your ability to self-start, self-initiate and be resourceful only gets heightened in a highly complex environment.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, creative, ever-changing environment and maintain quality, speed and accuracy while under pressure to meet deadlines.

• Well-versed in graphic design fundamentals including color theory, typography, composition, perspective, imagery, branding and identity systems.

About the Role

• Liaison via Slack and Salesforce between creative sales managers, Ad Solutions Engineers  and developers  to coordinate campaign deliverables from concept to build.

• Review campaign briefs to identify how best to set up the campaign for success.

• Participate in kickoff calls with other Yahoo partners to review creative specs, brainstorm and set deadline expectations.

• Ability to make design decisions independently to create top quality and high performing ads.

• Work as a team on brainstorms, creative reviews and other collaborative efforts to continually optimize creatives.

• Create pre-sale pitch mocks and post-sale assets in an organised manner with a clear file structure.

• Hand off design assets to spec with clear direction for engineers to build post sale ad units.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with both internal and external partners.

• Efficiently self manage your daily schedule of high volume and high revenue projects, hitting deadlines and communicating effectively.

The Ideal Candidate: 

• Internship/work experience in an interactive/web graphic design role, preferably in advertising and marketing.

• Some experience with layout programs such as Sketch/Figma.

• Strong command of the full Adobe Creative Suite, as well as other relevant software required to keep current with trends and design skills.

• Experience with optimising and editing video formats.

• Basic knowledge of interactivity, motion graphics and animation.

• Strong desire to be on the cutting edge of online display advertising.

• Comfortable with the Adobe Creative Cloud workflow, libraries and font system.

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field with some real world experience.

• Passionate about design and often finds inspiration. 

• Thrives in an ever changing environment and eager to learn new tools and platforms as needed.

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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