Senior Visual Designer
Job Summary
Responsibilities:
Visual Craft: Partner with product designers across pods (insurance financial products home services and others) to bring illustration motion and visual polish into flows that drive measurable conversion lift. Sit in critiques push back and propose visual solutions to product problems.
Illustration & Visual Systems: Design and produce original illustrations icon sets and visual assets that extend our brand into product surfaces editorial pages landmark templates conversion funnels AI/LLM templates and onboarding. Build illustration systems that scale not one-offs.
Motion & Animation: Own motion work end-to-end from storyboard and concept through After Effects composition Lottie export and lightweight SVG/CSS animation specs handed to engineering. Ensure motion ships at the quality you designed.
Design System Contribution: Develop and maintain illustration and motion guidelines as part of our design system defining style usage rules reusable components and motion tokens.
Brand & Sponsored Content: Contribute to high-visibility sponsored content packages and media kit deliverables working alongside BD editorial and brand stakeholders when those projects call for senior visual craft.
Rapid Prototyping: Concept and prototype visual ideas quickly comps moodboards animation tests to align stakeholders before production.
Engineering Partnership: Collaborate with front-end engineers on implementation specifying motion behavior easing timing and fallback states so what ships matches intent.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work across design product editorial BD and engineering. Articulate why a visual choice matters in plain language to non-designers.
Requirements:
58 years of experience as a visual designer graphic designer illustrator or motion designer ideally with time inside a product editorial or digital media environment.
A portfolio that demonstrates range: original illustration work strong typographic and layout craft and motion pieces youve taken from concept to shipped asset.
Deep fluency in After Effects Lottie (Bodymovin or equivalent) Figma and the Adobe suite. Comfort with SVG animation and a working understanding of how motion ships on web.
Experience producing illustration systems that scale across a product or brand defining style rules and reusable components rather than producing isolated assets.
Strong opinions about craft paired with the collaborative instincts to work inside a product design team and respond to business and conversion goals.
Ability to articulate the rationale behind a visual choice in plain language to PMs engineers editors and commercial stakeholders.
Comfortable iterating quickly in a fast-paced environment and distilling direction from open-ended briefs.
Remote-first experience with strong asynchronous communication habits.
You bring people togetherarticulate vision build alignment and foster cross-team collaboration through inspiring narrative.
Must haves:
Minimum of 58 years experience in visual design graphic design illustration or motion design
Portfolio with at least 4-6 projects showcasing illustration systems and motion work with clear rationale
Expert proficiency in After Effects Lottie and Figma
Demonstrated experience shipping motion work to production on web
Nice to haves:
Working knowledge of front-end fundamentals (HTML/CSS/SVG) sufficient to spec animations for engineering
Familiarity with AI image and motion tools (Gemini Whisk Flow Runway) as part of a production workflow
Experience designing for editorial or media brands
Background in advertising sponsored content or branded creative
Experience contributing to a design system
Perks:
- Day off on the 3rd Friday of every month (one long weekend each month)
- Monthly Wellness Reimbursement Program to promote health well-being
- Monthly Office Commutation Reimbursement Program
- Paid paternity and maternity leaves
Qualifications :
Any degree
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
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