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Group14 Technologies

Group14 is the new world leader in scalable energy innovation. Founded in 2015 to enable the electrification of everything, Group14’s advanced battery materials breakthrough brings new levels of energy performance to battery powered devices and vehicles. A series C start-up and Washington’s newest unicorn, our company is regarded as the most attractive battery materials start-up around. We truly are committed to powering the global electrification of everything.

WE’RE ON A QUEST TO ELECTRIFY THE WORLD

The electrification of everything starts with amazing people. We believe that a more sustainably powered world requires solutions for today, not years from now. The passion, collaboration, perseverance, and bravery of our team continually inspires us to push beyond the conventional to deliver the truly incredible with everything we do.

Who we are

Marketing and Brand at Group14 is on a mission to evangelize the truly revolutionary work that our company is doing to transform and shape the future of energy storage, celebrating the uniqueness of our industry changing products, processes, and technologies. We enable battery manufacturers and world leading OEMs in automotive, consumer electronics, and beyond to innovate things that we haven’t been able to imagine before because of the limitations of modern batteries. Our small but talented team is committed to providing content, creative, and messaging for customers and consumers to imagine an all-electric future where everything that can be powered by batteries is powered by rechargeable batteries connected to a 100% renewable powered grid.

Our team and everyone at our company is committed to cultivating a more sustainably powered world with solutions for today, not years from now.

What you’ll be doing

We’re looking for a multimedia Production Designer to join the marketing and brand team. At Group14, designers are makers and storytellers that use design to bring ideas to life. They lead project designs into uncharted creative territories without blinking, extending visual language, while always being mindful of how it looks and how it works within the context of the brand and the needs of the team.

Your job will be to creatively support and art direct, depending on need: email, website, wayfinding, social content, presentation/event decks, video, and more. You’ll support marketing and brand leadership to visually communicate the future of breakthrough advanced battery materials through visual storytelling about Group14 as an innovative leader. We are looking for a candidate who has a strong understanding of storytelling across visual mediums, has deep customer empathy, and understands how to work collaboratively across disciplines with a willingness to roll-up their sleeves and get into the weeds as well as an enthusiasm to contribute creative perspectives and invention.

As a Production Designer, you believe in the power of design as language. You’re energized by solving complex communication challenges with beautiful, on brand, visual solutions. You advocate for the company relentlessly and wield the power of design thinking in everything you do.

At Group14, you’ll work closely with the marketing team and an Art Director to successfully go from brand/communications initiatives to launch and amplification. You’ll bring consistency to and elevate the experience by crafting beautiful designs and imagery to correspond with messaging, narratives, office, and apparel to help us communicate about our company in the most effective way possible across channels.

Who you are

You are a creative designer who can crank out assets and design needs for digital, social, presentation decks, and physical mediums (signage and apparel). You’re responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open and collaborative peer environment.

You demonstrate strong visual design skills and design thinking prowess and will assist and lead the creation of online visual design, typography, visual concept, logos, icons, and other interactive platforms.

You know how to create design boards and identify how to extend a visual language for any given project and can utilize as well as create assets to design all sorts of digital and physical deliverables.

You effectively communicate and coordinate with other disciplines to ensure designs are on brand and in-line with company expectations.

You’re comfortable with ambiguity and have experience navigating it, but you’re also not afraid to ask questions and embrace a growth mindset with compassionate curiosity and ownership.

What we’re looking for:

• 3+ years’ experience designing across media
• Formal design training
• Previous experience collaborating with creative and/or brand leads
• Proficiency in Mac OS, Figma (or similar) Adobe CS (Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.), Google Suite, Microsoft Office
• A portfolio of work and/or work examples that demonstrate the scope of your skills and experience
• Collaborate well with others and understands how to influence with compassion
• Effective collaboration in cross-functional design and product teams
• Management of multiple projects in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment

Other qualities we’d love for you to have:

• Handy with a digital camera
• Digital animation
• Film shooting and editing experience
• B2B or B2C clean tech, sustainability, manufacturing, or nanotech experience

Reasons to love Group14

Culture – Join a small but growing team where every member is visible and valued. As a company we pride ourselves on building a culture of diversity, inclusion, and fun.

• Competitive wages – We want to attract, reward, and retain the top talent. We are looking for you – the best and the brightest
• Growth opportunities – career development and (on-the-job training). As a startup we wear a lot of hats and we stretch and grow every day in our skills and achievements
• Benefits – competitive healthcare benefits (100% employee coverage | 80% dependent), 401k & Matching, and Equity packages for all eligible employees

Please note: We are not able to accommodate candidates in need of work sponsorship at this time.

Group14’s top priority is the health and safety of its employees, their families, and the communities where they live and work. As part of our commitment to health and safety, we require all U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and receive their booster shot in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines, subject to reasonable accommodation and other requirements of applicable federal, state, and local law.

We love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn’t just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each and every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel Group14 is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work.

At Group14, all employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We are committed to identifying and developing the skills and leadership of people from diverse backgrounds.

– NO RECRUITERS PLEASE-

• Responsibilities

• Act as Senior Producer of the Brand team, and support with production needs, primarily digital and print design projects
• Leverage your deep understanding of the creative process to maintain project calendars and schedules, and guide your teams and stakeholders through the project lifecycle
• Liaise and coordinate multiple projects across all of Lucid’s teams: Marketing, Sales, HR (Human Resources), and Brand teams, providing PSAs to stakeholders as applicable
• Maintain project management platforms (Asana, Smartsheet) according to project calendars
• Set expectations and manage schedules effectively yet with a flexible manner showing solution-focused thinking beyond problem identification
• Ensure final deliverables are executed against creative targets for all projects
• Direct changes in project content or copy as needed ensuring a streamlined update process
• Be immersed in our company values and passions, instilling the integrity of the company and of brand
• Maintain constant and consistent communication with clients through email, Teams, phone, and project management software
• Solicit, review, and incorporate feedback from the team as works best
• Conducting creative request discovery.

• Qualifications

• 8 years of experience working on brand-centered projects
• A degree in a related field or equivalent work experience
• Experience working with external agencies, creators, and talents
• Skilled in managing a high volume of creative and content
• Passion for mission-driven brands
• Expert aptitude in project management tools like Asana, Smartsheet, etc.
• Versed in all aspects of multimedia content production