Art Director

*W2 Contract – Not Applicable for C2C/C2H*

Pay range is $95-$100 per hour with full benefits available, including paid time off, medical/dental/vision/life insurance, 401K, parental leave, and more. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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Art Director

Onsite in New York, NY – Local Candidates Only

We are shaping innovative experiences in service of giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Our multidisciplinary design teams are creating new ways to help people connect, find communities and grow businesses. Together, we are committed to building innovative technologies to serve billions of people around the globe.

We are looking for an Art Director to join our team driving coherence of the brand in product. Visual systems is a pillar within the team focused on mobile and web surfaces, shared product primitives, and libraries that scale the brand across our Family of Apps and Labs.

Our mission is to provide creative direction that helps define the brand. We focus on creating, evolving, and maintaining visual systems that enable expression including iconography, illustration, animation, and design system primitives.

This Art Director will collaborate with other art directors, producers, product teams, and brand strategists on driving our visual design standards and quality. This role will propose creative concepts and strategies, guiding development and shipping solutions that resonate with our global audience across various forms of expression. You should be comfortable working across many mediums, and always be curious and eager to experiment.

The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented creative practitioner, with a passion for design systems, brand, and holistic thinking, who strives for simplicity, and is known as a strategic partner to their cross-functional peers. They should have the ability to adapt to various creative styles and mediums, know how to think systematically and strategically, articulate design decisions, and iterate quickly. They will cover the design spectrum–from quick, rough ideation to polished final deliverables–we’ll look for work that thinks big and gets attention, but also follows a conceptual thread down to the smallest details.

Responsibilities

• Partner deeply with product design to apply brand expression to product moments, driving creative innovation, and delivering brand guidance
• Work independently but also collaborate closely with designers, engineers, content design and brand strategy to ensure a coherent brand expression across our ecosystem
• Develop visual identity platforms, systems and singular artifacts across, typography, palette, illustration, and iconography systems
• Communicate design direction and in addition to being a hands on designer
• Clearly articulate strategic thinking and design decisions to a variety of partners
• Give and solicit feedback from UX design peers in service of building the best products
• Work independently on multiple projects at a high caliber level, keep project timelines on track and show progress
• Employ design and facilitation methods to run workshops and define approaches that drive cross functional alignment
• Clearly articulate concepts with cross-functional teams and vendors (internally and externally) by driving towards shared milestones
• Contribute to a culture of excellence with a focus on craft and quality on the work
• Alongside the Design Ops, align on key priorities with cross-functional teams to build shared goals, milestones and objectives
• Inspire your teammates, give and receive feedback, and critique respectfully
• Able to meet multiple deadlines, prioritize work, and keep projects moving forward

Requirements

• Candidates should have broad experience working on a variety of projects with multiple partners and on tight timelines
• 5+ years experience with product, branding and communication design
• A portfolio that demonstrates product, branding, communication design experience
• Demonstrated experience with engaging launched projects
• Demonstrated experience with systematized design solutions
• Experience in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
• Knowledge of iOS, Android, and WWW design

Requirements

• Experience with design systems and product teams
• Experience working in illustration systems for scaled product design systems
• Experience with in icon systems for scaled product design systems

Crystal Equation Corporation