Art Director

Our mission is to inspire entrepreneurs and shoppers to find something new. We buy great brands built on Shopify, unlocking liquidity for small business entrepreneurs looking to start new adventures. We manage nearly 50 brands with over 100,000 products across apparel, beauty, home goods, and electronics.

Our team of e-commerce experts and engineers uses our proprietary technology and tooling, and advantages from our size, to grow our brands at scale.

Two million people have purchased OpenStore products, and soon, we’ll launch a consumer shopping app, helping people discover products in an all-new way. OpenStore was started in 2021 by top investor and operator, Keith Rabois, a former executive at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square, and a co-founder of Opendoor. We are backed with $150M+ from world-class investors such as Atomic, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Lux Capital.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY: 

The Creative Studio is growing and we are looking for a thoughtful Art Director to lead all things design across our growing portfolio of 45+ brands.

The Art Director will play a crucial role in defining and executing the visual and creative direction of a select number of brands in our portfolio across a variety of channels. This is a hands-on design role and candidates should be comfortable working across all things digital  E-comm, new product launch campaigns, paid social, CRM, promo, and direct mail.

A successful candidate will be able to lead their projects and brands through great design, strategic thinking, partnership with x-functional stakeholders, all while being laser focused on driving revenue and contribution dollars for their brands. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Lead Art Direction and design for your brands across all channels (Promo, Campaign, Social, Ads, CRM, Storefronts)

• On set and remote photo and video art direction 

• Manage production designer for lower lift templatized design work. 

• Collaborate with designers, producers, and x-functional stakeholders. . 

• Maintain and evolve brand guidelines 

• Concept best in class digital ads 

• Create new creative workflows, document, templatize, and onboard your peers so team can work in a consistent way. 

• Conduct competitive research and stay up to date with trends, styles, aesthetics for your brands and categories. 

WHO YOU ARE:

• You take ownership.  You are comfortable driving projects end-to-end that execute and eliminate blockers, helping you and the company move fast with confidence. You know when to raise your hand and ask for help.

• You can work through ambiguity. Your experience will enable you to focus on the elements that matter most and drive clear insights that inform the team’s priorities

• You love to learn.  You continually explore ways to improve your skills and knowledge through taking on new challenges and experiences.

• You are collaborative, organized, and thoughtful. You actively solicit teammate’s feedback and can get things done through informal influence. You demonstrate judicious decision-making and embrace intellectual friction as a feature of improvement, not a relationship bug.

WHAT YOU HAVE: (add minimum, core qualifications here, 4-6 bullet points)

• Experienced in dealing with ambiguity. Self starter who can work without a project manager. Equal parts designer and creative operations abilities. 

• Excellent communication skills and ability to partner will collaborate with x-functional partners. 

• Strong Understanding of typography, color theory, and layout design. 

• Proficient in Adobe creative suite and Figma

• Experiences in using project management tools like Clickup, Asana, and Monday. 

• Ability to manage and execute on multi-touch/channel projects

OpenStore is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer where we welcome and celebrate differences. We are committed to providing a workspace that is safe and inclusive, where everyone feels supported, connected, and inspired to do their best work. If you require any accommodations to participate in our recruitment process, please inform us of your needs when we contact you to schedule an interview.