Junior Marketing Designer
Job Summary
Job Description
Octopus Deploy is seeking an entry-level Junior Marketing Designer to join their dynamic marketing team. The role involves developing creative skills by working with senior staff on various projects. Responsibilities include creating vector illustrations based on provided content and briefs, designing flyers, updating slide decks with a designer's flair, and maintaining the company's resource library. The ideal candidate should have approximately 1 year of professional experience with tools like Illustrator, Canva, InDesign, and Google Slides. They must be adaptable, open to feedback, skilled in vector illustration, and able to communicate effectively with senior team members and stakeholders. The position requires meeting deadlines in a high-pressure environment and strong organizational skills.
Must have:
- Approximately 1 year of experience with Illustrator, Canva, InDesign, Google Slides
- Experience in drawing vector illustrations
- Adaptable and willing to listen to feedback
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Strong organizational skills
Good to have:
- Understanding of illustration, typography, and layout
- Ability to create custom vector illustrations
- Liaising effectively with stakeholders
- Supporting teams throughout campaign execution
Perks:
- Minimum of 25 days annual leave
- Up to 10 days of paid sick and carers leave
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave with flexible return options
- Stock options
8 skills required
Job Details
Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery, empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Over 4,000 organizations globally – including Ubisoft, ASOS, Xero, Stack Overflow, NASA, and Disney – rely on our Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions.
Founded in Australia in 2012, our team of over 270 Octonauts now spans the globe. We combine high growth and big ambitions with a sustainable, balanced working environment. Our revenue has grown consistently between 30–50% every year for the past 8 years, and we’ve been profitable for 10 out of the past 11 years.
We’ve been remote-first since 2015 and work with an uncommon level of transparency. You can read our public handbook to learn how we work. We have a transparent approach to compensation that ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same, with well-defined career pathways. We foster a supportive, collaborative, and high-trust environment. We leave our job titles at the door and focus on doing what’s best for our customers and team. Our leaders never shy away from answering the tough questions at our all-hands calls or in 1:1s. We conduct interviews and onboarding virtually as part of being a remote-first company.
You'll be joining our dynamic marketing team at Octopus Deploy, where we're passionate about helping development teams deploy software with confidence. Our marketing team works collaboratively across content, demand generation, and digital channels to connect with developers and DevOps professionals worldwide. We value creativity, data-driven decision-making, and a growth mindset. You'll work alongside experienced marketers, content creators, and subject matter experts who are committed to sharing knowledge and supporting your professional development.
We are looking for an entry-level Junior Marketing Designer. The candidate should be ready to develop their existing skills by working with senior creative staff on a range of ambitious and innovative projects. An understanding of illustration, typography, and layout will be needed to help the team produce the best work possible. Responsible for helping create collateral, including blog and social images, flyers, stickers, and much more, with the ability to create custom vector illustrations.
To help our teams work together effectively, this remote position requires you to be located in Australia or New Zealand.
What you'll do:
- Reading the provided content or design brief, researching the topic to understand, and going through a process of creative ideation to create vector illustrations of the content provided.
- Layout of flyers based on templates, but with the ability to think outside the box, extending the design within the brand to suit the content provided.
- Illustrating the Octopus character in fun and inventive ways for swag.
- Elevating the design of slide decks to enterprise level by not only using the slide deck template but further adding your designer's flair to the content. Using brand elements, nicely designed tables, as well as static data visualisations, etc.
- Maintaining our company resource library and making announcements to let employees know it has been updated.
Your background:
- Approximately 1 year of professional working knowledge of the following tools: Illustrator, Canva, InDesign, Google Slides.
- Comfortable being adaptable, flexible, willing to listen to feedback, and using feedback to improve.
- Experience in drawing vector illustrations.
- Communicating with senior team members to receive feedback.
- Liaising effectively with stakeholders.
- Supporting the team throughout the execution of campaigns and projects.
- The ability to meet deadlines in a high-pressure environment.
- Strong organisational skills.
Octopus has an internally open and transparent system for compensation. Any Octonaut can view the compensation for any role at any level. This ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same.
The compensation for this role is:
Level 1:
Maturing- $75,000 AUD/NZD + super & stock options
Performing- $85,000 AUD/NZD + super & stock options
Benefits include a minimum of 25 days annual leave, up to 10 days of paid sick and carers leave, 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave with flexible return options, and stock options. Learn more.
Interview Process
Below is the interview process you can expect for this role. We know interviewing can seem daunting, but rest assured we designed our interview process to move quickly while still getting you all the information you need.
👋🏼Initial chat [30 min]
Talent acquisition screen: Meet with your Talent Acquisition team and get a feel for what it would be like to be an Octonaut!
🧑💻Hiring manager chat [45–60 min]
Hiring manager chat: Designated time to chat with the hiring manager. This is a great opportunity to get to know each other. You should expect the hiring manager to ask questions about your professional background and goals. We welcome any questions you may have for us!
🎉Panel interview [60–90 min]
Final round chat: In this final round call, you meet cross-functional team members. You can expect a mix of leaders and individual contributors to join the chat. By the end of this call, you should have a great idea of what it’s like to work at Octopus. We should also have a great idea of what it would be like to have you on the team! We’ll ask any final questions and encourage you to do the same.
Our public employee handbook is the best place to learn more about life at Octopus. It includes our values, how we structure teams, career progression, leave and benefits, and much more.
If you're enthusiastic about this position, even if you don’t meet all the criteria above, we wholeheartedly encourage you to submit your application. Our talent team is in-house, and we recognize that every individual brings something unique. We take the time to review every application and consider how you might add to the team.
We know your time is precious. If you apply, we promise to update you at least once per week about the status of your application and to give you clear expectations for each step in the journey.
Important Notice About Recruitment Scams
Please be aware that individuals and organizations may attempt to scam job seekers by offering fraudulent employment opportunities under the name of Octopus Deploy or Codefresh by Octopus Deploy. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, text messages, or other communications claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers.
Octopus Deploy will never:
• Ask for sensitive personal information, such as credit card details, bank account numbers, or other financial information during the recruitment process.
• Request payment, fees, or purchases from job seekers.
• Send checks for equipment purchases prior to employment.
Official Communication Channels:
All communication from Octopus Deploy recruiters or hiring managers will come from official email addresses ending in @octopus.com. If you receive messages from other domains (e.g., name.sr.octopus.com or generic addresses like @yahoo.com), these are not from Octopus Deploy.
If you are unsure about the authenticity of a communication claiming to be from Octopus Deploy, do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at recruitment@octopus.com.
Reporting Fraud
If you believe you have been a victim of a recruitment scam, please report it to the appropriate authorities:
United States: Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
New Zealand: NetSafe
Australia: Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC)
Signs of a Recruitment Scam
Be vigilant about the following red flags:
• The sender uses email domains that do not end in @octopus.com (e.g., name.sr.octopus.com or generic addresses like @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com).
• Poor spelling and grammar in emails or official-looking documents.
• Requests for payment, financial details, or fees to proceed in the hiring process.
• Receiving a check and being asked to deposit it for equipment purchases before employment.
• Contacting you through informal channels such as WhatsApp, particularly in the United States.
• Pressure to act quickly or threats of losing the opportunity if immediate action is not taken.
We take fraudulent activities seriously and are committed to ensuring the integrity of our hiring process. Thank you for helping us protect our community and future Octonauts!
[Note to Search Firms/Agencies]
Octopus Deploy does not compensate search firms for unsolicited assistance unless they have a written search agreement with Octopus Deploy and the requisition is position-specific. Any resumes, curriculum vitae and other unsolicited assistance from search firms that do not have a written search agreement or position-specific requisition submitted to any Associate of Octopus Deploy will be deemed the sole property of Octopus Deploy and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Octopus Deploy.
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