Communication Design Manager

Plivo is a cloud communications platform that empowers businesses to connect, engage and interact with their customers with confidence.

Plivo’s mission is to simplify business communications. Thousands of businesses around the globe, including IBM, Workday, Wolters Kluver, Zomato, Yahoo, and Splunk, rely on Plivo to power their voice and SMS communications on a global scale. Plivo becomes a reliable communications platform with its Premium Communications Network that spans 190+ countries.

Founded in 2011, Plivo has over 300 employees remotely across the US, India, and Europe. Plivo was a part of YCombinator and is backed by prominent investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Battery Ventures.

Plivo has been profitable for the past 7+ years, an unusual milestone for companies of this scale. Plivo’s success has landed it among the leading global CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service) companies and at the cutting edge of the CPaaS sector, which has a market size of USD 12.5 billion in 2022. It is projected to reach USD 45.3 billion over the next five years.

Plivo is a people-centric organization with a culture of ownership. We offer industry-leading compensation and benefits, including excellent healthcare coverage, to our employees.

Plivo is looking to hire someone who wants to influence their own growth in areas of design as a part of the marketing function. If you are looking for an opportunity where you can pursue your design interests across business lines and where a title doesn’t define who you are but a stepping stone to something bigger.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take charge and lead a small marketing design team and become more effective by incorporating best practices.
• Set team goals, measure performance, and elevate the quality bar of the team while taking ownership of deliverables.
• Expected to represent depth in the craft of visual design: as an individual contributor, as a mentor and guide for more junior colleagues, team and peer functions.
• Take leadership to express and communicate a brand through distinct graphics, patterns, motion, interaction, and creative methods.
• Work in partnership with cross-functional leadership.
• Optimize on project management and maintain a high quality of deliverables from start to finish.
• Understand and evolve the brand standards and guidelines of all products.
• Experience with diverse content and subject matter.
• The ability to clearly present your point of view, express ideas, and accept feedback

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience.
• Can work on website, branding projects, marketing campaigns, and social media video collateral.
• Strong understanding of design patterns, color theory, typography, illustrations, and iconography with great attention to detail and consistency.
• Demonstrate senior working experience as a visual/UI designer with a strong portfolio supporting your meticulous attention to details.
• Knowledge of design processes, particularly as applied to marketing deliverables.
• Knowledge of capabilities and limitations in Web development such as HTML and CSS.
• Ideally worked in a startup or tech company to help adjust to the pace and autonomy at Plivo
• Tools:
• Proficiency in current design and prototyping tools such as Adobe suite, Figma, AI design tools, etc.
• Good old’ pen and paper or whiteboarding to define concepts