Responsibilities

- Partner with product, marketing and engineering to create an extraordinary brand experience across retool.com, marketing campaigns, branded content moments, events, product experiences, etc - Help maintain and expand flexible brand system for Retool that scales to meet the needs of the business - Collaborate within the brand team to establish how Retool’s visual identity is strategically expressed across all experiences - Act as a champion for the brand and how design is applied globally - Brief and collaborate with external partners for various needs across illustration, motion, video and other agency engagements to execute projects with high production quality - Design through iteration, experimentation and learned user behaviors - Ensure consistency in brand work across all marketing channels while seeking opportunities to experiment and grow the capabilities of our visual system - Be an active participant in design at Retool, providing thoughtful feedback across design and product teams in critiques, reviews, and more

Requirements

- Minimum of 10 years of experience in visual design in-house or in an agency setting - Experience and understanding of the formal elements of graphic design—including typography, color, layout, and composition - A creative focus on visual design applied across various surfaces such as web, environmental experiences, print and digital campaigns, video, product, etc. - Passion for branding, demonstrable through a portfolio of strong work in a variety of contexts and execution with a focus on brand systems - Experience working with motion designers to conceptualize animated visualizations as a part of a brand system–individual motion experience is a plus - Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively - A curiosity to stay educated on the latest design technologies and techniques, tempered by a desire to establish an original, opinionated style—not follow trends - A track record of successfully collaborating with design, marketing and business partners to translate project needs, audience insights, and constraints into informed design decisions - An ability to balance many simultaneous projects, independently prioritize work based on project objectives and business goals, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment - A proactive, self-starter work ethic with the ability to operate independently within a small team; Thoughtful, empathetic and creative.

Preferred

- Secondary design skills are a huge plus! Motion, 3D, sound design, prototyping, creative coding, etc.