Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external partners, setting the creative bar and ensuring cohesion across all deliverables
• Independently drive design and brand projects from concepting to execution, and also know when to step back and gather feedback or ask for help
• Oversee design systems and ensure visual consistency, ensuring materials are executed to a high level of craft and clarity across all mediums and audiences
• Lead thoughtful, constructive critiques, where we focus on the work not the ego
• Take as much responsibility as possible, often managing your own projects
• Define, refine, and protect brand aesthetics
• Sketch, storyboard, and prototype websites, publications, and brand guides, decks, one-pagers, digital brochures, investor materials, and corporate communications
• Be a team player with a "no task is too small" attitude, but also know when to delegate and how to mentor others
• Maintain asset libraries and archives

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in graphic, brand or communication design experience at a creative agency, brand, technology company or similar environment
• 3+ years of experience leading projects, teams or cross-functional initiatives
• Mastery of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• Exceptional graphic design fundamentals, typographic sensibilities, strong grids, hierarchy and systems thinking
• Experience building and evolving design systems
• Proven ability to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment, while having the vision and autonomy to create systems and process for the future
• Confident in the work, but balanced by healthy self-doubt (most of us are usually wrong)
• Smart, kind, creative, collaborative
• Verbally and visually articulate
• Comfortable mentoring junior designers and contributing to a healthy team culture

Preferred

• A strong network of freelance creative collaborators across design and web development

Benefits

• A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family, including:
• Flexible paid time off
• Health insurance (the company pays 100% of gold level PPO plan for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
• Dental insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees and 100% for their partners and dependents)
• Vision insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
• Disability insurance (the company pays 100% for a policy to provide long term financial support if you become disabled)
• Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
• Relocation assistance to facilitate your move to Portland (if needed).