Best Designs Operations Specialist

DesignRush.com, a B2B Media Platform that drives brand discovery & growth, is seeking a Best Designs Operations Specialist with experience in the web design industry to grow the platform’s B2B community.

Our platform offers four key values to users:

• Best Designs: Agencies can enter their finest work and compete for the best web logo, app, print, packaging, and video design awards every month.
• Agency Directory: Brands hire qualified agencies based on their expertise, location, clients, and various other factors.
• Marketplace: Businesses can post their projects at no cost and receive proposals from verified agencies.
• Trending Brands: Brands can feature their expertise and achievements via news, interviews, and trends articles to get recognized as industry leaders.

The candidate must be a proactive and independent thinker who can take ownership of the tasks at hand and ensure timely and high-quality output through collaboration with external partners and other team members.

Goals:

• Increase the number of project submissions to our monthly competition
• Continuously grow the number of judges reviewing submitted designs
• Ensure content deliverables are increasing in quality and number, leading to traffic growth

The ideal candidate will have:

• 2+ years of experience in sales, link-building, or PR
• Ability to manage internal design-related projects & client campaigns end-to-end
• Proven communication and relationship-management skills

This position offers a base salary and monthly bonuses. This is a full-time, remote work-from-home position.

DesignRush is seeking to make IMMEDIATE hires.

Responsibilities:

• Drive monthly growth in paid submissions and jury sign-ups through outreach, partnerships, and process improvements
• Own the end-to-end submissions pipeline - from agency outreach through payment, judging, and winner announcement
• Grow the jury pool: recruit new judges, coordinate judging cycles, ensure timely reviews
• Coordinate with content team to ensure articles (judge profiles, winner features, category pages) are produced on schedule and at target volume
• Execute link-building and parasite SEO initiatives to grow category page rankings
• Own cold outreach campaigns to agencies, influencers, and design events for submissions, judging, and sponsorships

Requirements:

• 2+ years in sales, link-building, PR, or content operations, with web design/creative industry experience
• Demonstrated ability to run end-to-end campaigns (outreach → conversion → retention)
• Working knowledge of marketing fundamentals
• Can independently track and present monthly KPIs in a structured format
• Experience with tools such as: ClickUp, Klaviyo, HubSpot, GA4, GSC, Ahrefs, Microsoft Suite, Figma, WordPress & AI-assisted workflows
• Strong written & verbal communication
• Proactive and detail-oriented - flags issues with a plan, not a status update
• Able to work between 5 a.m. and 2 p.m. EST

Recruitment steps:

• Apply via LinkedIn
• Receive a short questionnaire
• Send back answers + CV
• Recruiter Interview
• Receive a short test
• Interview with the Hiring Manager
• Get feedback

We kindly ask for your CV and all correspondence to be in English.