Performance Marketing Designer

Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running a large, fast-growing, and high-performing network of public charter schools takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates, and supporters alike. We are growing fast in New York and expanding to Florida, and we would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure children have access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through our doors a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.

About the Role

The Performance Marketing Designer will play a central role in driving enrollment, talent acquisition, and audience growth through high-performing creative.We are looking for a designer who combines strong visual craft with a performance mindset - someone who understands how creative influences behavior and can use testing, audience insights, and data to improve results. The ideal candidate brings a blend of design excellence, marketing intuition, and analytical thinking. They can create compelling assets across channels while continually optimizing creative to improve engagement, conversion, and acquisition outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Performance Creative Development

• Design and develop creative assets across paid social, display, search, email, web, video, and emerging digital channels.
• Translate marketing objectives, audience insights, and campaign strategies into compelling visual concepts.
• Create scalable creative systems and asset libraries that support campaign growth and efficiency.
• Develop multiple creative variations to support testing and optimization efforts.

Creative Optimization

• Partner with marketing and analytics teams to identify opportunities for creative improvement.
• Apply performance insights, audience behavior, and campaign data to refine and evolve creative.
• Support A/B testing initiatives through iterative design and rapid experimentation.
• Help establish best practices for performance-focused creative development across the organization.

Digital Experience Design

• Design landing pages, conversion experiences, and digital touchpoints that support recruitment and enrollment goals.
• Collaborate with copywriters, strategists, and marketers to improve user experience and campaign effectiveness.
• Balance brand standards with performance objectives to maximize impact.

Creative Collaboration

• Partner closely with copywriters, strategists, photographers, videographers, and marketers to develop integrated campaigns.
• Contribute to concept development, campaign planning, production, and launch.
• Present creative work and articulate the rationale behind design decisions.
• Help raise the overall standard of creative excellence across the organization.

Qualifications

Required

• 4–7 years of experience in performance marketing, digital design, advertising, growth marketing, or related fields.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating both creative quality and measurable business impact.
• Experience designing for paid social, digital advertising, email, web, and other performance marketing channels.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Understanding of marketing funnels, audience targeting, testing methodologies, and conversion optimization.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred

• Experience working on mission-driven, education, nonprofit, or consumer-facing brands.
• Motion graphics, video editing, or animation experience.
• Experience partnering closely with performance marketing or growth teams.
• Familiarity with marketing analytics and performance reporting tools.

What Success Looks Like

• Develops creative that improves engagement, conversion, enrollment, and acquisition outcomes.
• Creates work that is both strategically grounded and visually exceptional.
• Builds scalable creative systems that enable testing, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Helps audiences better understand and connect with Success Academy's mission.
• Elevates the quality and effectiveness of performance marketing creative across the organization.
• Uses design as a tool to drive measurable results and meaningful impact.

Compensation, Benefits & Perks

At Success Academy, we invest boldly in our Network team with a comprehensive package designed to support your health, financial future, and overall well-being:

• Day-One Health & Wellness: Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting your first day (SA covers 82% of our core medical plan), plus a free One Medical membership and confidential mental health support via EAP/Talkspace.
• Financial Security: 403(b) retirement plan with a 3% employer match, up to $2,400/year in employer HSA contributions, employer-paid life/disability insurance, and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligibility.
• Time to Recharge: Generous paid time off, paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Perks & Stipends: A $50/month cellphone stipend ($600/year), pre-tax commuter benefits, backup family care, and performance-based earning incentives.

This is a hybrid position based in NYC Financial District office, requiring on-site work Tuesday through Thursday, and remote work on Monday and Friday.

Exact compensation may vary based on skills and experience. This position is not bonus eligible.

Compensation Range$80,000—$110,000 USD

Success Academy Charter Schools is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to flourish in a multicultural world. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.

Success Academy Charter Schools does not offer employment-based immigration sponsorship.