Spot & Tango is Hiring a Senior Graphic Designer (NYC/hybrid)
As an early member of Spot & Tango’s Creative team, you’ll play a key role in shaping how our brand shows up across every touchpoint. You’re a senior-level graphic designer with exceptional taste, strong fundamentals, and the confidence to take projects from “rough idea” to “nailed it.” You’re equally comfortable executing pixel-perfect layouts and stepping back to think about visual hierarchy, storytelling, and brand consistency. You thrive in environments where expectations may be broad one day and highly specific the next—and you know how to move work forward regardless. You’re proactive, organized, and naturally fill in gaps before they’re pointed out. While your background is rooted in graphic design, you also enjoy dabbling in art direction and creative production—and you’re excited to grow in that space. You will report directly to the Creative Director and work day-to-day with a tight-knit group of creatives and marketers.
About the company
Spot & Tango is an innovative pet health & wellness brand that delivers personalized meal plans on a subscription basis. Our recipes are developed by leading animal nutritionists and are made with only real, human-grade ingredients... and nothing artificial! We have lofty goals (to make every dog in the country healthier, and every pet parent happier!) and we are looking for the right people to help us get there. This is an exciting opportunity to join a VC-backed, high-growth e-commerce startup and have an outsized impact in an extremely fast-paced environment. Plus, you get to think about dogs all day!
REQUIREMENTS
5+ years of professional design experience, with a strong portfolio showcasing branding, digital, and print work that is both playful but also refined
Deep experience with Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
Extensive experience with digital design (performance and brand ads, organic social, email, blog, landing pages, and marketing content)
Some experience with animation, illustration, and/or photo editing
Experience with physical design (packaging, marketing collateral, OOH)
Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate design decisions
Curious by nature, always looking to improve craft and process
Self-motivated, organized, and comfortable working in an agile, fast-moving startup environment
Based in New York City Metropolitan Area or willing to relocate
Nice to Haves
Experience working with e-commerce or DTC brands
Freelance or client-facing experience, including negotiating rates, creating briefs, coordinating contracts, and managing creative deliverables
Video editing experience in native platforms (CapCut, TikTok) and/or Adobe tools (Premiere, After Effects)
Illustration experience crafting simple doodles
Pet lovers strongly encouraged—this role includes real, in-person time with dogs on set (yes, it’s as good as it sounds) 🐾
RESPONSIBILITIES
Develop graphic design solutions across all customer touchpoints—both digital and print—including performance and brand advertising, packaging, marketing collateral, blog and social content, landing pages, digital assets, email and SMS graphics, and more
Collaborate closely with designers, product, marketing, and engineering partners to ideate and design engaging experiences across web and mobile
Create designs with purpose—thinking strategically about customer acquisition and retention (we are a subscription business) and designing with clear business goals in mind
Help manage external creative partners (photographers, copywriters, illustrators, freelancers), including scoping, briefing, gathering contracts & paperwork, coordinating timelines & deliverables, and ensuring all assets meet brand standards
Contribute to evolving brand systems and workflows, including deck templates, Figma libraries, and asset organization
Support art direction and creative production needs for photo and video shoots, including visual research, mood boards, shot lists, prop selection, and on-set support
