Web Designer

Marketing Plus, Inc. is looking for a full-time Web Designer to join our team. This role will focus on designing, building, maintaining, optimizing, and securing websites for businesses throughout the Twin Cities, Southern Minnesota, and Northern Iowa regions.

The ideal candidate has strong WordPress experience, a solid eye for design, an understanding of website security and SEO best practices, and the ability to manage multiple website projects while meeting deadlines and communicating clearly with team members.

Position Overview

The Web Designer will report to the Digital Marketing Manager and work closely with our internal marketing, graphic design, and digital teams to create professional, user-friendly websites that support each client’s brand, goals, and marketing strategy.

This role includes building new websites, updating existing websites, troubleshooting technical issues, improving site performance, and preparing websites for launch. The Web Designer will be expected to follow each client’s brand guidelines and brand voice, ensuring each website feels consistent with the client’s visual identity, messaging, and audience.

While WordPress is the primary platform used in this role, a basic understanding of WIX, Squarespace, BigCommerce, and other website platforms is preferred.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities include designing and building WordPress websites, making content changes, updating coupons and promotions, updating plugins, handling PHP updates, resolving basic website technical issues, adding ad tracking, installing custom widgets, and supporting website integrations as needed.

Before launching websites, this person will be responsible for establishing basic on-page and technical SEO, including page titles, meta descriptions, heading structure, internal linking, image optimization, redirects when needed, and other foundational SEO items.

The Web Designer will also ensure websites are optimized for desktop, tablet, and mobile responsiveness, while supporting secure and reliable website experiences. This includes following best practices related to website security, data security, form security, and PCI compliance when applicable.

This person will be responsible for tracking project progress in our project management system, keeping task details updated, documenting completed work, noting next steps, and communicating delays, questions, or project needs in a timely manner.

Work Schedule & Flexibility

This is a full-time, 40-hour-per-week hybrid position. Mondays are required in-office, with additional in-office days as needed for team meetings, client meetings, project collaboration, training, or other business needs.

Marketing Plus, Inc. prides itself on schedule flexibility and putting family first. We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer flexibility whenever possible, as long as it does not interfere with meeting deadlines, communicating with clients and team members, attending required meetings, and keeping projects moving forward.

Ideal Qualifications

The ideal candidate should have experience in WordPress website design, responsive design, website maintenance, basic technical troubleshooting, on-page SEO, technical SEO, and website security.

Education or training in web design, graphic design, digital media, visual communications, or a related field is preferred.

We are looking for someone who is dependable, organized, self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to balance both design and technical website needs. Strong communication skills, creative problem-solving abilities, and experience using project management systems are also preferred.

Benefits

Marketing Plus, Inc. offers:

401(k)
Hybrid work schedule
Schedule flexibility
~40 hours per week
Collaborative team environment
Opportunity to work with a wide variety of local and regional businesses

About Marketing Plus, Inc.

Marketing Plus, Inc. helps businesses throughout the Twin Cities, Southern Minnesota, and Northern Iowa regions grow through strategic marketing, digital advertising, website services, direct mail, print marketing, and campaign planning. As part of our team, you’ll work alongside marketing professionals, designers, web specialists, database experts, and print professionals to help clients create strong, secure, optimized, and effective websites.

Pay: $20.00 - $28.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Albert Lea, MN 56007

Salary : $20 - $28