Dogdrop: Visual Designer (Open to remote)

Product Designer is needed in Los Angeles, United States.

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Client: Dogdrop

Location: Los Angeles, United States (Open To Remote)

Contract: Part Time

The Role

Expect to use creativity, innovative thinking, your design skill set, and emerging technologies while you collaborate with company leadership, marketing, sales, advertising, and product.

Each time you finish a project, it should be with the goal of continuously improving our overall brand while simultaneously meeting key company metrics.

Your primary responsibilities will be:

• Design assets for retail locations, web, marketing, events, communications, products, and anything else that requires design to communicate Dogdrop’s story in a visual way.
• Continue to develop and maintain the visual brand identity, including layouts, typography, color palettes, illustration, photography and other visual elements.
• Participate in cross-functional strategy, timing, and process discussions as it pertains to the brand and our visual design principles.
• Collaborate with designers, architects, engineers, marketing managers, etc on dynamic and diverse projects. Effectively and accurately communicate with the rest of the team so they understand what to expect from you and so you can collaborate efficiently with them.
• Work simultaneously on multiple projects with short timelines, ensuring that deliverables are completed on time, on budget, and of the highest quality.
• Leverage new technologies to improve your end result, process, and optimize your time.
• Collaborate and source suppliers to achieve our design goals on projects that require doing so.
• Occasionally participate in design efforts outside of your area of expertise as necessary.

About You

• You hold a BA/BFA college degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, or Communication Design or sufficient work experience to supplement this if you do not have a degree.
• You have at least 3 to 5 years professional experience in visual design.
• You have a deep understanding of how to use design thinking and the creative process.
• You must be able to show a portfolio of work that reflects creative thinking, process, an understanding of tradeoffs, a broad range of skills, and exceptional design taste.
• You have in-depth knowledge of the product development lifecycle as it relates to visual design (such as printing procedures, proofing colors, reviewing web and mobile app development etc.).
• You are able to communicate your design ideas and decisions with other teams and company leadership in an open, professional, and effective manner.
• You have a history of telling compelling stories through unique creative assets and visual interactions.
• You have a deep understanding of how to prioritize your own work based on company deadlines and level of importance across tasks.
• You excel at staying organized with your design files and cloud storage so that the entire team can leverage and understand what you have created.
• You’re able to design and format content and typography at an advanced level.
• You have proven expertise using Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc.).
• You have advanced experience in Figma.
• You have advanced experience creating Web and Social Media assets for advertising and marketing.
• You have a strong desire to continue to learn and grow beyond your current skill set and level of understanding, not only so you can adapt to the changing landscape of a startup but as a personal value.
• You’re able to context switch, think fast, and re-organize priorities when things shift - we’re a small team!

Extra Points

• You have experience working with/at companies who create software products (websites, apps, etc).
• You know how to create motion graphics and animate vector and 2D graphics for commercials, advertisements, and websites using tools such as After Effects.
• You have experience using video editing tools such as Premiere and DaVinci Resolve to create video assets for story telling, ads and commercials.
• You have an understanding of how to tie design concepts back to business insights and data, and be able to articulate how design decisions impact the company’s overall goals and objectives.

This is an hourly, part time role (20 to 30 hours per week) that has the opportunity to expand to a full time role. This position is ideally based in Los Angeles, California, and reports to the Head of Product & Design. We are open to remote candidates.