Graphic Designer

Whether you’re walking into an apartment, or sizing up a web page, you can’t stop yourself from noticing the little things — whether it’s a take-out menu, or an art book on the coffee table — you’re always ready to admire the tastefully-arranged (or maybe not-so-tastefully-arranged?) details, from colour palettes, to kerning, to the way a typeface dances across the page.

When you go to the optometrist, they stand in awe as you detect misalignments on their chart down to the nanometer. You can tell at a glance that the paint advertised as “blue” isn’t blue e on. It’s cerulean.

You also know graphic design is about more than making things “cute.” Behind clever packaging, powerful logos, and audacious brands are strategic choices and vector paths traced with an expert’s care to evoke emotion, incite action, and leave an indelible impression. With your years of experience, you know full well that with this power comes great responsibility — and rather than using your talents to promote over consumption, you’re seeking a team that wants to create beauty for the right reasons.

For example: making public transit easier to access, or making car-free life more delightful in nearly 1,000 cities worldwide… Well, good news for you, because Transit is looking for their next graphic designer!

With your fellow graphic designers, you’ll be entrusted to help develop and manage Transit’s brand identity. As a design-first company it’s important when anyone encounters Transit — whether it’s the CEO of a transit agency, a transit researcher, or a curious user — that our “designery-ness” shines through. Decks, reports, product launches, social media images, office swag? No task is too small.

Ideally: you love the idea of working at Transit because you’ll be surrounded by excellent designers who will help you elevate your craft. But more than just honing your Adobe/Figma/Sketch skills, you’ll also have the chance to make cities more wonderful places to live in. Because Transit is more than an app — we’re advocates for sustainable transportation and better urban design in cities around the world.

We can’t wait for you to join the cause!

Make sure Transit’s visual identity leaps out in every market, at every touchpoint. From visuals for partner launches, to app store product pages, to our website, sales docs, pitch decks, events — it should all feel distinctly “us”

Be the guardian of Transit’s brand, making sure all of our marketing materials, and those of partners, comply with our brand standards

Collaborate with the product design team on ways to showcase Transit in all its glory

Work with marketing and biz teams to design promo materials for us and our partners

Build pretty templates for use by folks on non-designery teams

Take ownership of projects, manage them independently, prioritize tasks, make sure stakeholders are kept informed, and that timelines are respected. Y’know… the usual!

You’re a creative problem solver: you can always find a way to solve tricky design requests, and often several at once

You’re oh-so-organized. I mean, just look at those meticulously-arranged paragraph styles and layer names. Your “.psd” days are but a long-forgotten memory

You’re an aspiring black belt in the Adobe suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop). Funky layouts and wacky visuals are our bread and Président butter — the more you master these tools, the wilder we can get

Critical thinking muscles! You are not only capable of exercising them yourself when giving feedback, but are just as happy to receive (equally thoughtful!) feedback in turn

There’s no “i” in team… even if there is technically one in “design”: you look forward to collaborating with other creatives across teams, across tasks, each and every day!

Attention to detail: you notice subtly uneven picture frames. You feel physically revolted by bad typography. Corner radiuses fear you, and for good reason

You’re a project manager’s project manager — you can see the big forest and the tiny trees simultaneously, are comfortable juggling competing requests, and can prioritize (and delegate) tasks with aplomb

At least 5 years of experience — ideally at an agency, or in-house. This…