Are you passionate about helping designers elevate their creative workflows through advanced tooling? Do you enjoy empowering creative teams to adopt new technologies and drive meaningful impact in their day-to-day work?
As the Creative Specialist at Smartly, you will enable designers to get the most value out of Smartly’s Creative Suite by delivering expert training, supporting strategic customer conversations, and ensuring seamless integration with industry-standard design tools. You will play a key role in driving product adoption, customer satisfaction, and long-term retention by equipping creative teams with the skills and knowledge to succeed.
As the Creative Specialist at Smartly, you will…- Act as the main subject matter expert on Smartly’s Creative Suite and creative tooling, supporting Customer Success, Sales, and Product with advanced creative guidance.
- Partner closely with Customer Success to support pitches, demos, and exploratory creative conversations focused on advanced capabilities and workflows.
- Build and deliver training programs, workshops, and best practice sessions for new and experienced designers using Smartly’s tools.
- Conduct expert-level live demos (virtual and in-person) to help designers integrate Smartly with Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, After Effects, and other industry-standard tools.
- Collaborate with teams across Customer Success, Sales, and Product to identify common creative pain points, upskilling needs, and opportunities to improve user adoption.
- Develop documentation, guides, tutorials, and templates to support ongoing creative education and self-serve learning.
- Measure the effectiveness of training and enablement programs using adoption, retention, and customer feedback metrics, and iterate based on insights.
- Stay current with design trends, creative software, AI in creative, and evolving advertising best practices to ensure Smartly’s creative training is modern and relevant.
- Have at least 4 years of hands-on experience as a designer, with strong expertise in digital advertising, graphic design, UI/UX, illustration, or motion design.
- Are highly proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, After Effects, and familiar with HTML5 and other creative tools.
- Have proven experience delivering creative or technical training to advanced learners.
- Can clearly communicate and demo complex creative concepts to experienced designers.
- Understand creative workflows end-to-end, especially within digital advertising and campaign production.
- Are empathetic, customer-focused, and comfortable driving designer-to-designer conversations.
- Can manage multiple projects independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Have experience with LMS platforms or content creation tools (a plus).
- Hold a degree in Graphic Design, UI/UX, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
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Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers.
Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it.
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