Associate Creative Director - Central & South America

About Backblaze

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.

Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We are seeking an Associate Creative Director! You can work remotely as long as you live in Central or South America. 

About the role

 We’re on the hunt for a one-person creative powerhouse to join our marketing team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on variety, is excited by the opportunity to shape a brand’s identity, and wants to grow within a fast-paced tech environment. You'll contribute to everything from designing sleek UI/UX for website to creating impactful marketing assets like email campaigns, blog visuals, and sales collateral.

What You’ll Do:

  • UI/UX design: Design intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for our web and mobile platforms, ensuring a seamless user experience.
  • Brand creative: Develop visually compelling materials, including email templates, blog illustrations, infographics, and marketing presentations.
  • Agency relationships: Manage creative agency workflow and asset to ensure on-brand and on-time delivery.
  • Collaborate across teams: Work closely with marketing, and sales teams to align designs with brand strategy and user needs.
  • Brand consistency: Maintain and evolve brand guidelines to ensure consistency across all touchpoints.
  • Creative problem-solving: Tackle a wide range of creative challenges, from brainstorming campaigns to polishing visuals for social media.

The Right Fit:

  • Design expertise: Strong portfolio showcasing a mix of UI/UX projects and marketing collateral.
  • Software proficiency: Skilled in tools like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Webflow and a bonus if you know motion graphics tools like After Effects.
  • Marketing knowledge: Experience designing for digital marketing (email, blogs, landing pages, social media, etc.)
  • Detail-oriented: You have an eye for detail and take pride in producing polished, high-quality work.
  • Team player: Collaborative spirit with a can-do attitude and openness to feedback.
  • Growth mindset: Excited to learn and grow in a fast-evolving tech environment.
  • Fluent in English 
  • Need to work US hours either EST or PST

Bonus Points For:

  • Experience with HTML/CSS for minor web design tweaks.
  • Familiarity with branding for B2B tech or SaaS companies.
  • Motion design or video editing skills.

At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you're reading. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Learning, developing, and growing are key parts of our culture. We're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in various ways. We want people to feel comfortable expressing their true selves and to come, stay, and do their best work here.

At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries, but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice.

Back to blog

Common Interview Questions And Answers

1. HOW DO YOU PLAN YOUR DAY?

This is what this question poses: When do you focus and start working seriously? What are the hours you work optimally? Are you a night owl? A morning bird? Remote teams can be made up of people working on different shifts and around the world, so you won't necessarily be stuck in the 9-5 schedule if it's not for you...

2. HOW DO YOU USE THE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION TOOLS IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS?

When you're working on a remote team, there's no way to chat in the hallway between meetings or catch up on the latest project during an office carpool. Therefore, virtual communication will be absolutely essential to get your work done...

3. WHAT IS "WORKING REMOTE" REALLY FOR YOU?

Many people want to work remotely because of the flexibility it allows. You can work anywhere and at any time of the day...

4. WHAT DO YOU NEED IN YOUR PHYSICAL WORKSPACE TO SUCCEED IN YOUR WORK?

With this question, companies are looking to see what equipment they may need to provide you with and to verify how aware you are of what remote working could mean for you physically and logistically...

5. HOW DO YOU PROCESS INFORMATION?

Several years ago, I was working in a team to plan a big event. My supervisor made us all work as a team before the big day. One of our activities has been to find out how each of us processes information...

6. HOW DO YOU MANAGE THE CALENDAR AND THE PROGRAM? WHICH APPLICATIONS / SYSTEM DO YOU USE?

Or you may receive even more specific questions, such as: What's on your calendar? Do you plan blocks of time to do certain types of work? Do you have an open calendar that everyone can see?...

7. HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE FILES, LINKS, AND TABS ON YOUR COMPUTER?

Just like your schedule, how you track files and other information is very important. After all, everything is digital!...

8. HOW TO PRIORITIZE WORK?

The day I watched Marie Forleo's film separating the important from the urgent, my life changed. Not all remote jobs start fast, but most of them are...

9. HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A MEETING AND PREPARE A MEETING? WHAT DO YOU SEE HAPPENING DURING THE MEETING?

Just as communication is essential when working remotely, so is organization. Because you won't have those opportunities in the elevator or a casual conversation in the lunchroom, you should take advantage of the little time you have in a video or phone conference...

10. HOW DO YOU USE TECHNOLOGY ON A DAILY BASIS, IN YOUR WORK AND FOR YOUR PLEASURE?

This is a great question because it shows your comfort level with technology, which is very important for a remote worker because you will be working with technology over time...