Tombras, a 400+ person, full-service, national advertising agency with a digital mindset, is seeking a Senior Email Designer for our Email Marketing team.
Where you’ll be working: Knoxville. Relocation assistance may be provided.
As our Senior Email Designer, you’ll be the go-to for building high-performing, visually sharp email campaigns across lifecycle, trigger, and promotional programs. You’ll lead creative direction and hands-on execution, working closely with CRM strategists, developers, writers, and clients to bring campaigns to life.
This isn’t a "set it and forget it" role. You'll concept, build, test, learn, and evolve — helping shape email strategy just as much as you shape the look and feel.
What you'll be doing:
- Design responsive, mobile-optimized emails that drive opens, clicks, and conversions
- Translate testing strategy and segmentation into creative hierarchy and layout
- Lead creative direction for key CRM campaigns and always-on email programs
- Build modular email systems that scale across audiences, lifecycle stages, and brands
- Work in tools like Figma, Stripo, and Litmus to deliver production-ready creative
- Partner with developers and QA to ensure design accuracy across inboxes
- Use performance data to iterate on winning creative and retire underperformers
- Stay on top of industry trends, ESP platform updates, and evolving email standards
What you bring:
- 5–7+ years designing for email — ideally in a fast-paced, test-and-learn environment
- A strong portfolio showing direct response thinking, CTA clarity, and layout intelligence
- Mastery of Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and email-focused tools like Stripo or Litmus
- Working knowledge of email HTML/CSS constraints (you don’t need to code, but you design with code in mind)
- Experience working with CRM strategists, developers, and marketing teams
- Strong understanding of lifecycle marketing, segmentation, and personalization
- Comfort working with ESPs (Salesforce Marketing Cloud a plus)
Why you’ll want to work at Tombras:
You’ll be joining the #1 Agency in North America. Connecting Data & Creativity for Business Results® is working for our clients and creating a flywheel effect fueling both client and agency growth. You’ll be a part of a highly creative agency that has been recognized by AdAge, Adweek, Communication Arts, Fast Company, Forbes and Fortune. Tombras was recently named 2025 AdAge Agency of the Year and 2024 AdAge Independent Agency of the Year.
Tombras Benefits:
Family - It comes first, on every list. Tombras has been family-run since day 1, we strive to facilitate a family-oriented environment rooted in supporting one another.
Dog-friendly offices
Unlimited PTO
Generous parental leave for primary and non-primary caregivers.
Medical (PPO or High Deductible option) for employee + dependents
401(k) Participation
Employer-paid Dental & Vision
A company culture of promotions from within and an atmosphere allowing for varied and rapid career development.
New, Modern building in Downtown Knoxville
Tombras is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
Tombras is an E-Verify employer and participates in the E-Verify program.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice. Job may require traveling overnight, driving long distances as required and sitting for extended periods of time with occasional walking and standing and occasionally lifting or carrying articles weighing less than 10 pounds.
