Associate Creative Director - Remote - Backblaze

About Backblaze

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.

Founded in 2, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We are seeking an Associate Creative Director!

About the role

 We’re on the hunt for a one-person creative powerhouse to join our marketing team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on variety, is excited by the opportunity to shape a brand’s identity, and wants to grow within a fast-paced tech environment. Youll contribute to everything from designing sleek UI/UX for website to creating impactful marketing assets like email campaigns, blog visuals, and sales collateral.

What You’ll Do:

• UI/UX design: Design intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for our web and mobile platforms, ensuring a seamless user experience.
• Brand creative: Develop visually compelling materials, including email templates, blog illustrations, infographics, and marketing presentations.
• Agency relationships: Manage creative agency workflow and asset to ensure on-brand and on-time delivery.
• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with marketing, and sales teams to align designs with brand strategy and user needs.
• Brand consistency: Maintain and evolve brand guidelines to ensure consistency across all touchpoints.
• Creative problem-solving: Tackle a wide range of creative challenges, from brainstorming campaigns to polishing visuals for social media.

The Right Fit:

• Design expertise: Strong portfolio showcasing a mix of UI/UX projects and marketing collateral.
• Software proficiency: Skilled in tools like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Webflow and a bonus if you know motion graphics tools like After Effects.
• Marketing knowledge: Experience designing for digital marketing (email, blogs, landing pages, social media, etc.)
• Detail-oriented: You have an eye for detail and take pride in producing polished, high-quality work.
• Team player: Collaborative spirit with a can-do attitude and openness to feedback.
• Growth mindset: Excited to learn and grow in a fast-evolving tech environment.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with HTML/CSS for minor web design tweaks.
• Familiarity with branding for B2B tech or SaaS companies.
• Motion design or video editing skills.

At this point, we hope youre feeling excited about the job description youre reading. Even if you dont meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Learning, developing, and growing are key parts of our culture. Were eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in various ways. We want people to feel comfortable expressing their true selves and to come, stay, and do their best work here.

Backblaze Perks:

• Annual Company bonus plan
• RSU grants for full-time employees
• Healthcare for family, including dental and vision
• 401K
• ESPP program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Maternity & paternity leave
• MacBook Pro to use for work plus a generous stipend to personalize your workstation
• Childcare bonus (human children only)
• Fertility treatment and support
• Learning & development program
• Commuter benefits
• Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts include candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is $124,000 - $143,000.

At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries, but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.