Senior designer

THE ROLE: Senior Graphic Designer: Luxury Fashion Ecom

We’re looking for…

This is more than a design job, it’s a rare opportunity to build an incredible fashion-focused design portfolio as you lead a design team shaping an influential premium and luxury flash sale brand at the forefront of e-commerce. We're looking for a skilled Senior Designer who lives and breathes both style and visual storytelling, someone who’s excited to roll up their sleeves and is ready to inspire an established team of talented designers.

Skill is critical, collaboration is key. Whether it’s working with the Creative Directors to plan a seasonal Creative campaign, working with our talented Art Director’s and photographers to achieve world-class editorial imagery that meets the needs of your brand, or working cross-functionally to improve how we visually merchandise our daily sales on site— you’ll have the tools, trust, and team to make a real impact—on the brand, on the category, and on your portfolio.

What You’ll Do

Creative Design

• Quality is your top priority. Watching trends
• Design engaging, high performing digital assets for use on our site, or in digital marketing and social campaigns.
• Optimize designs for performance and user experience; Learn what works for our customers and evolve your work, and your team’s work, leading with your sophisticated sense of typography, layout, image selection, and motion design skills.
• Create and implement new templates, systems, and design treatments that scale across channels.
• Retouch, color correct, and digitally modify our in-house fashion editorial imagery to meet the visual merchandising needs of our sales events and seasonal Creative Direction.
  
  

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Create assets for that are on-trend, elevated, and present our brand as a fashion authority.
• Lead, mentor, and manage Designers and Associate Designers—reviewing work, giving feedback, and supporting their growth.
• Design, maintain, and enforce visual brand guidelines to ensure consistency across all touchpoints (create the rules and know when to break them!).
• Collaborate with Copywriters, Merchants, Marketers, and Creative Operations Project Managers.
• Guide the team through project cycles, helping them prioritize, problem-solve, and create even stronger work.
• Manage multiple complex projects at once and drive initiatives forward from concept to delivery.
• Participate in and lead brainstorms that result in strong, innovative creative ideas.
• Being nimble is a competitive advantage! Embrace change and manage your team through periods of rapid change.
• Ensure timely delivery of high-quality assets that meet both aesthetic and functional goals.
  
  

Innovation & Best Practices

• Stay current on luxury, fashion, and e-commerce design trends and technologies.
• Help evolve the visual direction of our brands, championing ideas that excite and push boundaries.
  
  

About You

We’re building something bigger than just a brand, and we want someone who brings passion, kindness, curiosity, and craft. You are a driven, collaborative, and detail-oriented Senior Designer who thrives in a fast-paced, ever-evolving creative environment.

You Are

• A seasoned designer with 5+ years of experience, preferably in fashion, beauty, or lifestyle e-commerce.
• A hands-on creative with a portfolio that reflects exceptional digital design skills—especially showcasing your typography, use of imagery, motion-design, and retouching abilities.
• Experienced with Adobe Creative Suite. Figma and motion/video/animation experience is a plus.
• Comfortable managing a team and giving clear, constructive feedback.
• Confident in developing and applying brand systems but motivated to experiment and innovate within them.
• Excellent at multitasking, prioritizing, and communicating across cross-functional teams.
  
  

What We Offer

• A creative environment that encourages experimentation, inclusion, and fun.
• A chance to shape the future of a growing e-commerce brand with a loyal customer base.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
  
  

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employee(s) assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employee(s) assigned to this job. Rue Gilt Groupe reserves the right at any time, with or without notice, to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job position or assign additional job responsibilities within your general skill set or capabilities. Rue Gilt Groupe is proud to be an Equal Opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

We Encourage You to Apply

Even if you don’t meet every single qualification, we’d still love to hear from you. We value passion, curiosity, and a commitment to learning as much as experience.

We celebrate diverse perspectives and strive to create an inclusive environment for all our Associates.

Expected Base Salary Range: $80,000 - $90,000

Rue Gilt Groupe is committed to providing Associates with equal pay for equal work and carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to, prior experience, education, certification(s), license(s), skills and expertise, location, internal equity, and other factors that are job related and consistent with business need. Our goal is to support, reward and compensate the entire individual. Depending on role eligibility, your offer may also include bonus/commission, stock options, 401(k) participation, paid time off, medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance. Therefore, final offer amounts may vary from the amount stated.

About Us

Ready for the most memorable – and stylish – experience of your professional career? Then join us at Rue Gilt Groupe. Combining three complementary brands, Rue La La, Gilt, and Shop Simon, we are the premier off-price e-commerce portfolio company.

Our model defined the online treasure hunt through its daily sale events allowing our customers to discover over 5,000 premium and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off full-price retail. We believe in fashion for all, sparking delight through daily discovery and shopping as an occasion to celebrate! World-class merchandising, technology and marketing bring our shopping experience to life, and we hire world-class people to do it. Living our values and being empowered, tenacious, passionate, collaborative, innovative, and kind is something we strive for every single day. We meet over coffee and brainstorm new ways to spark delight for our members. Volunteer on- and off-hours together. Plan some serious surprises for our coworkers, because nothing ignites innovation like a breakfast cereal buffet or an afternoon slice of cake.

And we don't hesitate to use our associate discount – after all, we're as enthusiastic about style as our customers. The way we work? It's so much more than what happens between the weekends. It empowers us to think, create, and innovate, so we can deliver the first-rate experience today's customer’s demand.

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