The GridX Design team is looking for both a strategic and hands-on Creative Director to join the team to lead creative and brand design. Our Creative Director will partner with Design and Marketing in the ideation, implementation, and execution of GridX branded experiences and moments for both internal and external audiences.

Role & Responsibilities

• Work alongside Design, Marketing, and customer teams to design and develop strategic, branded campaigns, digital experiences, and sales enablement toolkits.
• Champion GridX brand strategy through every customer journey and touchpoint, with both internally and externally facing audiences.
• Work with Design, Solutions, and Product teams to ensure products and services are accurately portrayed across channels.
• Create tests using current users, synthesize large volumes of data, and understand design impact through data and metrics.
• Gather insights and feedback from audience members and translate insights to concerted improvements to brand strategy, design system, and marketing objectives.
• Create comprehensive customer journeys, conversion funnels, and mock-ups that illustrate use-cases and experience outcomes.
• Mastery of application, color, space, typography, iconography, illustration and UX laws with excellent aesthetics to unlock brand across journey touchpoints.
• Ability to design engineering ready comps for our corporate website, digital properties, and outbound messages and work with engineering resources to develop and deploy.
• Clearly communicate desirability, feasibility, and viability of creative/design decisions and value of proposed creative/designs.
• Take ownership of projects end-to-end, and balance scope against time, cost and quality.
• Manage 3rd party contract resources, tools and systems on behalf of GridX.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant creative and brand design experience
• Portfolio with examples of relevant work experience
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Ability to facilitate design thinking exercises–digitally and in person
• Demonstrable experience designing and building strategic, branded campaigns
• Strong knowledge of the creative/brand/design industry and market trends
• Formal design training in Communications Design, Graphic Design, or Customer Experience
• Ability to work across time zones in a dynamic start-up setting

Your Location

Because much of the team is based in Denver, CO, it is preferred that the selected candidate be located in the Denver area. The role will include occasional work at a GridX Industrious shared office or attendance at offsites and/or customer sites, as determined by your role’s responsibilities and agreed to with your manager.

Your time is valuable! Please note we will only be reviewing applications for those who reside in our preferred location.

Compensation

Compensation is based on your specific location, and, for this position may range from $135,000 to $160,000/year base salary + benefits/perks. Please note this range is an estimate and actual pay may vary based on skill set, qualifications, experience and location.

Our Interview Process

Intro Call (20-30 minutes)

Interview #1 In Depth Experience Discussion with Hiring Manager (VP Design) (45-60 minutes)

Interview #2 Discussion with Dir. of Product Design and Dir. of UX Engineering (45-60 minutes)

Interview #3 Discussion with Marketing Team (45-60 minutes)

Interview #4 On-site Discussion with Hiring Manager and Team (45-60 minutes)

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k Match
• Stock Options
• Parental Leave
• Be part of creating our clean energy future

Our Values

Our values are closely-held beliefs designed to drive the right actions and the right decisions that are authentic to GridX. We expect results delivered in a way consistent with GridX values. In exchange, we reward high performance. We:

• eXplore the possible - Everyone is empowered to innovate, fail and iterate in delivering our clean energy future. Consistent progress is our default.
• eXecute on big goals - We are owners, taking responsibility for achieving results. We think long-term, sweat the details, and use resources wisely.

• eXcel together - Collaboration and camaraderie are at our core. We cheer for and challenge each other to be our best. We win together.
• eXemplify success - We do the right thing and act with integrity, even when no one is looking. We prove that it’s possible to do well by doing good.

About GridX

GridX is the catalyst of our clean energy future. Utilities and energy technology providers rely on our analytics solutions to tell people exactly what they can expect to pay when making clean energy decisions, like changing to a time-of-use rate plan, buying an electric vehicle, installing solar and more. The result is less strain on the electric grid, happier customers and increased consumer investment in sustainable technologies. Working at GridX puts you at the center of realizing our clean energy future.

At GridX, we value the diversity of our employees and partners. We believe that our company thrives when we support and celebrate our differences.

No recruiters or phone calls, please. GridX does not accept unsolicited resumes from any agencies that have not signed a mutual service agreement. All unsolicited resumes and profiles will be considered GridX property, and GridX will not be obligated to pay a referral fee. This includes resumes submitted directly to hiring managers without contacting the Talent Acquisition Department.

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.