The Position

You:

• In-depth knowledge of best practices in graphic/interactive design, styles and layout techniques
• Proven experience executing demand generation assignments from creative conception to production
• Skilled at designing creative assets that support an integrated campaign throughout the entire buyer/customer journey
• Demonstrated experience working within an Inside Agency Model
• Customer-centric with comfort working directly with customer executives, Apptio employees, and partners at a global scale
• Articulate communicator
• Detail-oriented
• Highly motivated, innovative yet pragmatic and organized without being mechanical
• Able to juggle multiple projects at once
• Able to work within specified deadlines to complete projects on time
• Excited to share new ideas to help evolve our visual design
• Open to feedback and eager to grow design skills
• Flexible on travel ranging from one trip per quarter up to one trip per month

Us: You will work in the Global Creative Services team under the Global Creative Team Lead. We are a smart, fun, collaborative team who strives to bring the Apptio brand to life in everything we create while ensuring creative aligns with storytelling throughout the buyer and customer journeys. We take pride in producing creative that builds brand and delivers demand generation results and customer loyalty.

What we want you to do: 

Manage the pre-production, production, and post-production activities required to create impactful Apptio assets.

• Subject Matter Expert on graphic/interactive design within creative services team
  • Work to understand our addressable market and improve how visual design effectively communicates our value proposition
  • Manage all assigned design projects from conception to delivery
  • Incorporate current design trends and best practices
  • Generate ideas to portray design concepts for integrated campaigns that demonstrate how creative is consistent but not repetitive across channels and throughout the buyer and customer lifecycles
  • Stay current with industry developments and tools
• Pre-Production
  • Convert creative briefs into visual designs by determining the most impactful way to deliver against business goals balancing creative strategy with generating business results
  • Develop a workback plan that sequences the key activity milestones required to hit asset delivery date
  • Proactively communicate expectations of stakeholders, other design team members and outside agency resources
• Production
  • Design original pieces following brand and digital guidelines
  • Optimize existing pieces to integrate effectively into campaign or other demand generation program
  • Drive creative reviews with stakeholders and balance brand, design and stakeholder requests
  • Meet or exceed each milestone date within agreed upon workback schedule
  • Liaison between key stakeholders and other design team members to ensure deadlines are met
  • QA all final designs to ensure quality and brand /integrated campaign adherence
• Post-Production
  • Understand how to publish to and manage finished assets within a global Digital Asset Management System
  • Reengage as requested by campaign, program or channel owners to optimize existing assets

 Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in graphic arts, design or related field
• 3-5 years of experience in graphic design in both print and digital platforms
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Adobe Digital Publishing)
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and ability to work within Workflow tools such as WorkFront
• Strong typographic, color theory, and composition skills in both digital and print
• Experience creating Infographics and Mainstage Event Presentations and Booth Creative
• Conceptual thinker yet balance with ability to take direction and meet tight deadlines

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience within SaaS Business to Business (B2B) firms
• Design experience working within Experience Platforms such as Adobe AE, Sitecore, Epi-Server Experience Manager or equivalent MarTech solution
• Experience is supporting personalization within Account Based Marketing Programs
• Co-branding and partner design experience
• Ability to align design to storytelling within an integrated campaign and or throughout the customer journey

 **Apptio benefits include Company-Paid employee health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, and generous contributions to a health savings account. We also offer participation in a flexible spending account, 401k and other voluntary programs.

The Company:

Apptio® fuels digital business transformation. Technology leaders use Apptio's machine learning to analyze and plan their technology spend so they can invest in products that increase the speed of business and deliver innovation. With Apptio, they translate raw costs, utilization, and billing data into business-centric views that help their organization optimize spending, plan strategically, and drive digital strategy that funds growth of the business. Technology leaders can gather instant recommendations that result in 30% saving on cloud services. For more information, please visit www.Apptio.com.

Apptio Inc. is not open to 3rd party solicitation or resumes for our posted FTE positions. Resumes received from 3rd party agencies that are unsolicited will be considered complimentary.

Apptio, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Apptio, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.