Design Lead for Samsung CRM at VML

Senior CRM email design support for Samsung Europe, focused on elevating creative quality, improving consistency and accessibility, and enabling scalable delivery across up to 17 markets. The work centred on flagship campaigns, sales activity, and lifecycle communications, combining hands-on design with clear guidance for local teams.

Client

Samsung

Role

Design Lead

Year

2023-2025

The Brief

Samsung required high-quality, scalable CRM email campaigns to support product launches, sales events, and ongoing lifecycle communications across Europe. The challenge was maintaining creative quality, consistency, and accessibility at scale, across multiple agencies, internal teams, and up to 17 European markets.

I was brought in as a Senior Designer within VML’s CRM team to elevate the design standard of Samsung’s email campaigns.

Approach

My role focused on improving the creative execution and usability of Samsung’s CRM output, while making it easier for internal teams and local markets to deliver campaigns consistently. I led the design of key CRM email campaigns, including flagship phone launches and major sales periods, with an emphasis on clear hierarchy, scannability, and visual craft. Where appropriate, I introduced lightweight animation to add impact while remaining technically robust across email clients.

For larger campaigns, I established the core template styles in Taxi, setting the visual direction and structure for the campaign. Samsung’s in-house designers and local markets then adapted these templates for rollout, allowing campaigns to scale efficiently without sacrificing quality.

Key areas of focus

Improving visual hierarchy, spacing, and layout consistency

Supporting localisation across up to 17 European markets

Raising accessibility standards around contrast, legibility, and alt text

Introducing animation where it added value without compromising delivery

EMail Guidelines

Variation in execution across markets led to gradual quality drift over time. To address this, I created a practical set of CRM email guidelines that clarified expectations and supported more consistent delivery.

Alongside day-to-day campaign work, these guidelines were paired with Figma templates to improve accessibility, visual consistency and execution quality across Samsung Europe’s CRM output.

The guidance was adopted across multiple European markets and used for flagship launches, sales periods and lifecycle communications, helping teams deliver at scale without compromising quality.

Figma Templates

I created a set of reusable Figma templates and components that mirrored Samsung’s Taxi email modules. These were used internally to explore layouts, modules and interaction patterns for desktop and mobile before implementation in Taxi.

Figma allowed me to quickly prototype and validate ideas within Samsung’s CRM constraints, particularly for briefs that required new or more complex email patterns. For example, it was used to explore concepts for an automated CRM newsletter driven by customer sales history and preferences, with confidence that designs could be built accurately in Taxi.

The templates were also used for collaborative concept work and pitches, and as visual references when defining new modules for Taxi development.

Modular email layouts for standard and flagship campaigns

Reusable components for headers, CTAs, product modules and footers

Rapid prototyping within Taxi constraints

Design references for new Taxi modules

Outcome

This work improved both the quality and reliability of Samsung’s CRM email output across Europe. Campaign templates were adopted by up to 17 European markets, supporting more consistent execution across regions. Accessibility considerations became more embedded in everyday CRM output, and flagship launches and sales campaigns benefitted from stronger, more coherent creative execution.

30+

email campaigns designed

6M+

users reached with flagship campaigns

17

European markets using the new guidelines