Senior Designer

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29000 companies including Workday Pinterest LG and Rakuten Viber Mixpanels AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption improve retention and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics session replay experimentation feature flags and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit to learn more.

About the Role

Mixpanel is evolving from a single product analytics tool into a multi product platformand our visual identity needs to evolve with it. Were looking for a Visual Designer who wants to help define what that looks like.

Youll work closely with our core brand team exploring ideas developing conceptual directions and bringing our brand to life across digital and print. This isnt about producing assets to spec. Its about pushing our visual language forward while building systems that scale. Youll advocate for brand consistency where it matters and know when to break out and try something new.

We work on abstract conceptsideas that dont have obvious visual solutions. A background in illustration is a big plus because youll often be tasked with making the intangible feel tangible. If youre a designer who loves to explore iterate and craft work that stands out in a sea of generic SaaS this is the role.

What Youll Do

Explore and expand our visual identity

• Concept and iterate through visual directions that push Mixpanels brand forward
• Help define how our identity flexes across contextsweb campaigns events product print
• Balance brand systems thinking with creative exploration; know when to follow the rules and when to break them

Bring abstract concepts to life

• Develop illustrations and visual approaches for ideas that dont have obvious solutions
• Translate complex technical products into imagery that resonates emotionally
• Collaborate with the brand copywriter to ensure visual and narrative work together

Design across surfaces

• Create work for campaigns branded content events digital experiences and print
• Partner with motion designers to conceptualize animated expressions of the brand
• Brief and collaborate with external partners (illustrators animators agencies) when projects require additional expertise

Champion the brand

• Maintain and expand a flexible brand system that scales to meet business needs
• Ensure consistency across marketing channels while seeking opportunities to experiment
• Participate actively in design critiques and reviews providing thoughtful feedback across the team

What Were Looking For

Experience and craft

• 5 years of experience in visual design in-house or agency
• Strong command of the fundamentalstypography color layout composition
• Portfolio demonstrating range across brand systems campaigns web print and environmental work
• Illustration skills or a strong illustration sensibilityyoull be visualizing abstract concepts regularly

Creative mindset

• You love to explore and iterate; youre not precious about early ideas
• You have opinions about what makes design good and can articulate them
• You stay curious about new techniques and technologies but arent chasing trendsyou want to build something original
• Youre excited by the challenge of standing out in a crowded market not playing it safe

Collaboration and communication

• You can translate project needs and audience insights into informed design decisions
• You give and receive feedback thoughtfully

How you work

• You balance multiple projects and prioritize based on business goals
• Youre a self-starter who operates independently within a small team
• Youre proactive thoughtful and bring creative energy to the work

Bonus skills

• Motion design 3D prototyping or creative coding experience
• AI Tooling to scale your work

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Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive Medical Vision and Dental Care
• Mental Wellness Benefit
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Volunteer Time Off
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K) Wellness Benefit Holiday Break

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

• Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
• Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data experience and collective wisdom to drivepowerful outcomes.
• One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
• Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
• Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers needs ensuring their success is our north star.
• Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel

Were a leader in analytics with over 9000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz Sequoia YC and most recently Bain Capital. Mixpanels pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling reliability design and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means youll be helping the worlds most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel we are focused on things that really matterour people our customers our partnersout of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women people with disabilities veterans underrepresented minorities and LGBTQ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Weve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.