Email Designer

YAMU Media is looking for an Email Designer to join our team. This role is open for Latin America, Asia and Africa. Please see our job description below and follow the application instructions if interested.

Job Title: Email Designer

About the Role

We're looking for someone whose full-time focus is email creative, not a generalist designer splitting time across web, social, and other deliverables. Our current designers support multiple deliverable types; this role exists because our retention team needs a creative partner who lives inside email design specifically and can move at the speed our lifecycle and campaign calendars demand.

This person owns the email end to end: designs in Figma, then builds and QAs the template in Klaviyo. You are not handing files to a developer. Nothing ships until you've built it.

Key Responsibilities

Email Creative Design

• Design on-brand email templates and campaign creative for lifecycle flows and one-off campaigns

• Design high-performing email campaigns, flows, and templates for retention and lifecycle initiatives

• Create responsive, mobile-first email designs in Figma

• Build a scalable, modular template system that reduces the need for fully custom creative on every send while maintaining strong brand execution

• Adapt designs for different subscriber segments, offers, and campaign types, including:

  • Promotional campaigns

  • Welcome series

  • Abandoned cart flows

  • Post-purchase emails

  • Winback campaigns

  • Product launches

  • Seasonal and retention campaigns

• Work directly with the email strategist to translate strategy and copy into visually effective, on-brand emails

• Turn around design requests quickly enough to support a high-cadence lifecycle and campaign calendar

• Incorporate feedback efficiently without losing production speed

Technical Execution

• Design with rendering constraints in mind, building files that translate cleanly into Klaviyo templates

• Build designs into live Klaviyo templates and flow messages, including conditional and dynamic content

• Own rendering QA before send. Litmus/Email on Acid or equivalent across major clients, dark mode, and mobile

• Maintain the shared block library inside Klaviyo, not just in Figma

• Maintain a library of reusable modules/blocks to speed up future builds

• QA designs across email clients and devices for rendering consistency

• Use AI tools to speed up design workflow without sacrificing quality

Requirements

• -3+ years demonstrating email design experience and a strong portfolio showcasing email marketing and campaign design work

• Advanced proficiency in: Figma, Klaviyo, Adobe Photoshop

• Hands-on in Klaviyo's template editor: drag-and-drop builds, universal/saved content blocks, display and conditional logic, dynamic tags and product feeds, plus link and UTM setup.

• Experience building templates where content varies by recipient, using conditional blocks rather than duplicating the template per segment.

• Familiarity with motion design, GIF creation, or lightweight animation

• Strong understanding of email-safe design constraints and how to design for rendering across clients/devices

• Understanding of email analytics, CTR optimization, and conversion-focused design

• Basic HTML/CSS knowledge for template troubleshooting

• Experience building modular/reusable template systems, not just one-off custom sends

• Ability to work fast without sacrificing brand quality — this role supports an active lifecycle and campaign cadence

• Experience designing specifically for Klaviyo, Omnisend or similar ESPs

• Comfortable collaborating closely with a strategist and taking creative direction while contributing your own point of view

• Active use of AI tools in your design workflow (for ideation, asset generation, or production efficiency)

• Excellent written and spoken English

Nice to Have

Experience in subscription commerce or DTC brand design

Agency experience designing across multiple brand accounts

What Success Looks Like at 3 Months

• Module library live in both Figma and Klaviyo, covering the recurring block types on our top accounts

• Design turnaround supports the lifecycle/campaign calendar without becoming a bottleneck

• Strategist and team report strong collaboration and creative quality

• Continuous improvement through testing, iteration, and performance insights

Your Attributes

• You take extreme ownership with your work and see tasks and projects through to completion by any means necessary without excuses

• You are a strategic thinker who forms your own hypotheses and tests them with data

• You have a customer-driven mindset and understand how email fits into the full retention journey

• You communicate proactively — internally and externally — and never let a problem sit until someone else notices it

• You are highly adaptable and thrive in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift

• You solicit and welcome feedback and use it to improve your work

• You are an AI-native operator who uses AI tools in your daily workflow

• Customer-driven mindset: you strive to see everything through the lens of our client's target customers to inform strategy

• Entrepreneurial instincts: you are a proactive self-starter with a solution-oriented attitude

• Insatiable drive to succeed

• Highly adaptable; welcomes change and can thrive in a high-growth start-up environment

We Offer You

• Fully Remote work

• Become part of a team of smart, open-minded people with individual qualities

• You'll be a part of a rapidly growing company, with plentiful opportunities to grow into leadership roles. And you'll face a steep learning curve & daily data science, technological, and business challenges.

• Work-Life Balance:We understand the importance of balancing work with personal life and offer supportive, flexible work arrangements to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance.

• Yamu Media provides a start-up environment and culture; fast-paced and agile with quick decision-making. It's an honest and open environment where team members at all levels can make a difference and have a say.

• We believe in life-long learning and supporting the development of our team. We are committed to internal promotions, offering clear pathways for advancements as your skills are developed and experience is gained.

Salary: Negotiable depending on experience, with a 3-month trial period. Salaries at YAMU are uncapped and periodically reviewed based on performance and market conditions.

About YAMU:

We are a Demand Generation Agency that helps companies between $1 million - $20 million in ARR scale online. To learn more about us and our process, please visit our website: yamumedia.com

If you're a dedicated, forward-thinking professional with a strong work ethic, a sense of extreme ownership, and the ability to drive results through proactive problem-solving and clear communication, we'd love to hear from you.