Here at Scotts Miracle-Gro there is no such thing as a typical day. Our culture is constantly energized by new and exciting growth opportunities and at a rapid pace. Below are details on an open job. If the role interests you and you would like to be considered we encourage you to apply!
Here at Scotts Miracle-Gro, there is no such thing as a typical day. Our culture is constantly energized by new and exciting growth opportunities, at a rapid pace. If you are a visionary creator who sits at the intersection of traditional design and cutting-edge technology, we encourage you to apply!
At Scotts Miracle-Gro, creativity isn’t just a department—it’s our lifeblood. We’re the brand that people trust to grow everything from backyard gardens to big ideas, and we’re looking for a Designer / AI Artist who is ready to redefine how we visualize the future of gardening. This role will be a critical driver of our Amazon business merging aesthetic excellence with the power of generative tools to deliver impactful visual campaigns on time, on budget and with excellence.
This position will be based at the Scotts Miracle-Gro world headquarters in Marysville, a suburb of Columbus, OH.
The Designer / AI Artist acts as the visual engine of our internal creative studio. You won't just be "making layouts"; you will combine your graphic design skill set and high taste level for brand-advancing visual expressions with using advanced tools to augment the human-driven creative process. While the primary focus of this role is driving our Amazon and e-commerce growth, you will also provide critical support for other Big Box retail partners, ensuring a cohesive strategy across our largest sales channels. You will support our Creative Directors in evolving our iconic brands (Scotts, Miracle-Gro, Ortho, etc.) for a digital-first world, ensuring that every asset across all consumer touchpoints - with a focus on digital touchpoints like our DTC website and CRM channels, plus our retail partner eCommerce platforms - are both beautifully reflective of our brands at their best and strategically sound.
Visual Storytelling & Ideation: Concept and execute high-quality visual designs for digital programs and campaigns, with a heavy emphasis on Amazon advertising and product detail pages.
Omnichannel creative strategy and execution: Ensuring our brands’ visual identities and messaging remain cohesive across all touchpoints while adapting to the unique technical requirements of each platform to guides the consumer through a unified brand story, across device or medium.
Hybrid Design Execution: Seamlessly blend AI-generated assets with traditional retouching, typography and layout techniques in various to produce polished, final deliverables
Agile Iteration: Work within an agile marcom environment to rapidly produce personalized creative execution and creative variants for A/B testing, partnering with the marcom channel owners, analytics partners and business units to optimize designs based on performance data
AI-Augmented Creation: Lead the integration of Generative AI into the design workflow to accelerate prototyping, versioning and hyper-personalized content creation.
Innovation Advocacy: Help drive cultural working change to advocate for both the incredible impact new technologies can have to creative and content, and the importance of the human element in the most performance-effective and brand building marketing
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Digital Media, Fine Arts, or a related field.
Experience: 4-6 years of professional design experience, ideally on elite-scale brands. A strong portfolio demonstrating both traditional design principles (typography, color theory, composition) and ideally some examples of experimental AI-generated work.
Tech Literacy and Adoption: Mastery of Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and/or similar creative platforms, and demonstrated experience with incorporating Generative AI tools into the creation of marketing content and creative
Artistic Intuition: The ability to take a strategic brief and transform it into a compelling visual narrative that resonates with diverse consumer segments.
Adaptability: A "lifelong learner" mindset with the ability to pivot as AI technology and design trends evolve daily.
Collaborative Spirit: A team player who can communicate creative concepts effectively to stakeholders and work cross-functionally with brand managers, marcom channel owners and copywriters.
Because at Scotts Miracle-Gro, you’ll never be boxed in. You’ll have the resources of a household name and the freedom to experiment like a startup.
Live Total Health: Options ranging from medical/dental to an incredible 401K match (up to 7.5%) and a 15% discount on company stock.
Onsite Wellness: 2,400 sq. ft. fitness center, Walgreens pharmacy, and Doctor’s office at our Marysville HQ.
Creative Environment: A beautiful log-cabin style campus with a chef-run cafe and the best crushed ice in Ohio.
Unconventional Growth: Career paths here are like a rock climbing adventure—grow through exploration and new experiences rather than a linear ladder.
Inclusion: Join one of our ERGs, including the Scotts Women’s Network, Scotts Black Employees’ Network, and more.
Scotts is an EEO Employer, dedicated to a culturally diverse, drug-free workplace.
The starting budgeted pay range for this role will generally fall between $87,600.00 - $103,100.00 per year. Scotts will consider various factors in determining the actual pay including your skills, qualifications, experience, and geographical location.In addition to the determined base salary, this role is also incentive eligible under our corporate bonus programs.For remote roles where the final candidate resides in Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Oregon or Washington, state required pay thresholds will be factored into base salary.Here at ScottsMiracle-Gro, we believe providing an enriching and engaging employee experience is what sets us apart from other organizations. We recognize our employees are so much more than just their job title so we offer programs and benefits that support them in all aspects of their lives. Wondering how we do it? Below is a glimpse of our highlight reel…
Our Live Total Health program provides you with options to align to your personal needs. Selections range from medical, dental and vision coverage for you, your spouse/domestic partner and dependents to an outstanding wellness reimbursement program to an unbelievable 401K match (up to 7.5%) as well as a 15% discount on company stock and much more
We know our talent is our most precious asset and your unique development contributes to our organization’s success now and in the future. Career growth at our company is not always a ladder. It’s much more like a rock climbing adventure. Grow through exploration and experiences rather than a predictable linear path.
We value the importance of family. We provide access to Maven Family Planning and up to $30,000 to accommodate for adoption, fertility and surrogacy.
Be part of something bigger by joining one of our Employee Resource Groups focusing on diversity and inclusion, family, education and sustainability: Scotts Women’s Network, Scotts Black Employees’ Network, Scotts Veterans Network, Scotts Young Professionals, Scotts Pride Network (GroPride), Scotts Associates for a Greener Earth (SAGE), Scotts Family TREE and our Associate Boards.
Join a company with a strong belief in giving back to the communities where we live and work. We have a shared passion for service and volunteerism and believe participating in community service benefits our communities and strengthens our team.
Not interested in this role? Stay up to date on future opportunities by joining our ScottsMiracle-Gro and Hawthorne Gardening talent communities.
Scotts is an EEO Employer, dedicated to a culturally diverse, drug free workplace.
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