Mid-Level Designer – Brand & Visual Systems
Job Description:
- Develop original concepts and visual directions across identity, campaign, editorial, packaging, environmental, and digital projects
- Translate strategy, audience needs, and client objectives into distinctive and relevant design ideas
- Build and extend cohesive visual systems across multiple applications, formats, and touchpoints
- Own defined design workstreams from early exploration through refinement, production, and final delivery
- Present and articulate design thinking clearly to internal teams and, when appropriate, clients
- Respond thoughtfully to feedback while advocating for the quality and integrity of the work
- Collaborate with creative directors, designers, strategists, writers, project managers, and external creative partners
- Prepare accurate, production-ready files and coordinate with printers, fabricators, developers, photographers, illustrators, and other vendors
- Manage priorities across multiple projects while maintaining craft, consistency, and attention to detail
- Contribute ideas, references, and constructive feedback to the broader studio practice
- Stay curious about emerging creative tools and technologies
Requirements:
- 3 to 5 years of professional design experience within a design studio, agency, or strong in-house creative team
- Portfolio demonstrating strong concepts, layout, typography, composition, art direction, and visual system thinking across multiple formats
- Evidence of strategically grounded and visually ambitious work, with ability to adapt rather than rely on a single aesthetic
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
- Experience carrying work from initial concept through production and final delivery
- Ability to communicate design decisions clearly and participate confidently in presentations and critiques
- Strong organizational skills, sound judgment, and ability to manage multiple deadlines
- Collaborative working style, openness to feedback, and high degree of accountability
- Familiarity with motion, 3D, prototyping, web tools, or other emerging creative technology is a plus
- Working Pacific time zone hours (within reason) required
Benefits:
- Health coverage
- Paid time off
- Holidays every month
- 401k
- Equipment support
- Professional development