Designer II - Creative

Summary

Shutterfly is a family of brands that helps customers create personalized products and capture meaningful moments. The Designer II - Creative will develop, execute, and produce creative across marketing channels and customer touchpoints, balancing concept development with high-volume production. The role partners with creative and cross-functional teams to deliver polished, consistent, and effective design solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop creative from concept through production and final execution, translating ideas into polished design solutions across channels
• Contribute original thinking during brainstorms, kickoffs, reviews, and collaborative working sessions
• Create work with a strong attention to typography, composition, imagery, hierarchy, and brand consistency
• Execute and adapt creative across a high volume of assets, formats, and channel requirements while maintaining quality and consistency
• Partner with Creative and cross-functional teams to understand objectives, ask thoughtful questions, establish alignment, and deliver effective creative solutions
• Look beyond the immediate ask to identify opportunities to strengthen the idea, approach, or final work
• Present concepts and design rationale clearly and confidently to Creative leadership and cross-functional partners
• Bring ideas to life through thoughtful design and image selection that supports the creative concept and brand
• Manage multiple projects and priorities, communicating proactively around progress, questions, risks, and dependencies
• Incorporate feedback thoughtfully and use it to strengthen the work
• Stay curious about emerging tools, technologies, and creative practices that can improve how we think and work

Skills

• • 3+ years of professional design experience, including experience within retail and/or eCommerce
• • Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Advertising, Fine Arts, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
• • A portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft, conceptual thinking, and execution across multiple marketing channels
• • Comfort balancing conceptual creative work with hands-on production, including adapting and extending creative across multiple assets, formats, and channels
• • Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma
• • A strong foundation in typography, composition, hierarchy, grid systems, color theory, design systems, and brand systems
• • A strong eye for photography, with the ability to source and select compelling imagery that supports the creative concept and feels authentic to the brand
• • Experience developing creative for digital marketing channels and customer-facing marketing touchpoints
• • An understanding of how brand, customer, and performance objectives come together within marketing creative
• • Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate the thinking behind your work
• • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects while maintaining creative quality and attention to detail
• • Confidence working through ambiguity, solving problems, and taking ownership of your work
• • A collaborative mindset, openness to feedback, and genuine interest in continued creative growth
• This opportunity can be remote, but candidates must reside in a state in which Shutterfly is registered to do business. This includes all US states except District of Columbia, North Dakota, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wyoming
• • Background working with established consumer brands
• • Familiarity with photoshoot planning and pre-production, including supporting Art Directors with shot lists, sourcing visual inspiration, and preparing creative for shoots
• • Motion design, animation, or motion graphics capabilities
• • Working knowledge of generative AI image and video tools, including effective prompting and the ability to incorporate AI into creative exploration and production workflows

Qualifications

Must Haves

• • 3+ years of professional design experience, including experience within retail and/or eCommerce
• • Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Advertising, Fine Arts, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
• • A portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft, conceptual thinking, and execution across multiple marketing channels
• • Comfort balancing conceptual creative work with hands-on production, including adapting and extending creative across multiple assets, formats, and channels
• • Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma
• • A strong foundation in typography, composition, hierarchy, grid systems, color theory, design systems, and brand systems
• • A strong eye for photography, with the ability to source and select compelling imagery that supports the creative concept and feels authentic to the brand
• • Experience developing creative for digital marketing channels and customer-facing marketing touchpoints
• • An understanding of how brand, customer, and performance objectives come together within marketing creative
• • Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate the thinking behind your work
• • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects while maintaining creative quality and attention to detail
• • Confidence working through ambiguity, solving problems, and taking ownership of your work
• • A collaborative mindset, openness to feedback, and genuine interest in continued creative growth
• This opportunity can be remote, but candidates must reside in a state in which Shutterfly is registered to do business. This includes all US states except District of Columbia, North Dakota, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wyoming

Nice to Haves

• • Background working with established consumer brands
• • Familiarity with photoshoot planning and pre-production, including supporting Art Directors with shot lists, sourcing visual inspiration, and preparing creative for shoots
• • Motion design, animation, or motion graphics capabilities
• • Working knowledge of generative AI image and video tools, including effective prompting and the ability to incorporate AI into creative exploration and production workflows

Benefits

• This position may be eligible for a bonus incentive, health benefits, a 401K program, and other employee perks.
• This opportunity can be remote, but candidates must reside in a state in which Shutterfly is registered to do business. This includes all US states except District of Columbia, North Dakota, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wyoming.