Hightouch

Forward Deployed Creative Designer, Email

Hightouch$140K — $180K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Exceptional portfolio showcasing real lifecycle and email campaigns with craft emphasis.
  • Extensive experience designing hundreds of emails for various lifecycle programs.
  • Proficient in latest AI tools and models, with hands-on experience in their application.
  • Experience interacting with complex enterprise marketing teams and navigating brand approval processes.
  • Strong understanding of lifecycle marketing metrics and engagement strategies.
  • Robust aesthetic sense, evidenced through portfolio and ability to explain design choices.

Responsibilities

  • Lead creative direction for enterprise client engagements, ensuring alignment with brand identity.
  • Create on-brand email systems that deliver impactful lifecycle campaigns.
  • Produce high-quality email designs that meet customer expectations and needs.
  • Drive data-informed creative decisions through A/B testing and performance analysis.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to enhance platform workflows and user experience.
  • Develop and document successful email patterns and strategies for scaling best practices.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape the future of AI in lifecycle marketing at a category-defining company.
  • Collaboration with top-tier brands and a fast-paced, craft-focused team.
  • Meaningful equity options with an advantageous exercise window.
  • Location-independent work environment, offering flexibility and autonomy.
Full Job Description
The Role

Most AI-generated emails still look like AI-generated emails. Off-brand color, clunky layouts, the same five templates on a loop. Brands that care about their identity have stayed on the sidelines because the output hasn't met their bar.

We're changing that. Hightouch's Agentic Marketing Platform is the system enterprise marketers are using to plan, generate, and ship lifecycle campaigns with their data, their guidelines, and their voice. Our customers include Domino's, Chime, Spotify, Ramp, Whoop, and Grammarly. They are not going to settle for slop, and neither are we.

We're hiring an AI Creative Designer, Email to be the human who proves what's possible. You'll collaborate alongside our Solutions Engineering team on enterprise customer calls, translate brand guidelines into agentic workflows that actually produce on-brand email and lifecycle creative, and ship the work that makes the case. You will be the most influential creative voice in the room, both for our customers and for our product.

You will define how the most recognizable brands in the world build email with AI, and you will watch the work you direct ship to millions of inboxes.

What You'll Do
  • Lead creative on enterprise engagements. Partner directly with our customers' lifecycle and marketing teams to accelerate the adoption of our Agentic Marketing Platform through on-brand email systems that deliver immediate impact. Understand each brand's identity, engagement goals, and constraints. Build the agentic workflows, prompts, reference libraries, and guardrails that produce work the brand is proud to send.
  • Set the creative bar. When a customer asks "can your platform make an email that looks like this," you're the person who makes it look like that. You'll produce the creative work that turns curiosity into conviction and proves what's possible.
  • Drive performance, not just aesthetics. Partner with customers on A/B tests, iterate on creative based on results, and build the playbook for what drives opens, clicks, and conversions, and reliably lands in the inbox, when AI is in the loop.
  • Shape the product. As the creative voice closest to product and engineering, you'll spot friction, refine workflows, and help shape model behavior to directly influence what we build next!
  • Define the playbook. Document patterns that work, share them with the team, and build the body of knowledge that lets us scale taste across every customer we onboard.
What You Bring
  • A portfolio that does the talking. Real lifecycle programs, real email campaigns, real product launches. Ideally with AI integrated into the workflow, but the bar is craft. If your work is exceptional, we want to see it. (Applications without a portfolio link will not be reviewed.)
  • Deep email design experience. You've designed hundreds of emails across lifecycle programs (onboarding, nurture, retention, win-back) and you have sharp opinions about layout, hierarchy, and what renders well across clients and devices. Comfortable getting into the code and build of an email is a plus.
  • Deep AI fluency. You don't need us to teach you what's new. You're already testing the latest image and generative models the week they drop, you're stringing them together in node based UIs, you have strong opinions about which ones get which jobs, and you know how to push them past their defaults to hit a specific look.
  • Enterprise client instincts. You've worked directly with sophisticated marketing teams, in-house, agency, or consultancy, and you know how to navigate brand reviews, legal, and the politics of getting work approved.
  • Lifecycle marketing literacy. You understand the difference between an email that wins a design award and one that hits an engagement or revenue target, and you can hold both standards at once.
  • Taste. This is the hardest one to write a bullet for, so we'll just say it: you have it, your portfolio shows it, and you can articulate why something works.
Why Hightouch?

You'll be the creative center of gravity for a product that's actively defining a category. The brands you'll work with are the ones you already follow. The team you'll join, Product, Engineering, Solutions, Design, ships fast and treats craft as a non-negotiable. And the work you do will compound: every workflow you build, every customer you ship for, makes the next one easier.

If you've been waiting for the moment to bet on AI in lifecycle marketing before it's obvious, this is it.
Compensation

$140,000-$180,000 USD per year, location-independent. Top of band is reserved for candidates with proven enterprise creative leadership and a portfolio that sets the bar. We also offer meaningful equity in the form of ISO options, with early exercise and a 10-year post-termination exercise window.

About Hightouch

Hightouch is a software company that provides a data integration platform for businesses. The platform allows businesses to connect their customer data from various sources and sync it with their marketing and sales tools. Hightouch's platform is designed to be easy to use and requires no coding or technical expertise. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Hightouch
Size
20 employees
Industry
Founded
2019

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