XXIX: Senior Brand Designer

We are hiring contract-based senior and director level brand designers with experience leading brand projects and activating brands on the web.

We are worker owned creative collective, innovating on everything from brands and IRL communities to IoT devices and cross platform apps. We share profit, open source everything, spin out new businesses, and invest in exciting ideas through financial and/or in-kind contributions.

We think of our garden3d as collective for creative people, prioritizing a happy, talented, and diverse studio culture. We work on projects that bring value to our world, and we balance deep care for the work we do with a genuine curiosity about life outside of our jobs.

Must Have

Competencies:

• A portfolio of work exhibiting experience in a range of disciplines and media with an emphasis in branding, strategy, art direction and web activation.
• Agency or studio experience leading a project from concept to launch, including project planning and leading a team
• Confidence making creative decisions and providing feedback across all aspects of a project that improve the quality of the work, push the boundaries of the brief, and reinforce the unique perspective of the studio
• Work displays a mastery of design fundamentals such as typography, layout, etc.
• Clearly and confidently presents their work and ideas visually, orally and in writing to any kind of audience
• Experience leading creative teams, coaching others, and actively seeking guidance from others
• Always seeks unique, novel solutions to design problems and draws from a variety of influences
• Willingness to be involved in the planning and management of projects to ensure they run smoothly and efficiently
• Driven by strong conceptual thinking rather than purely aesthetic outcomes
• Has a clear point of view and produces work that reflects it, with refined personal taste and impeccable attention to detail, especially in typography
• Highly organized, a proactive self-starter, modest, and has a strong work ethic
• Values a self-directed, egalitarian, and equitable work environment
• Gives and receives feedback generously, respectfully, and with openness

Skills:

• Can prepare and facilitate workshops and internal research
• Uses established and original frameworks for developing strategic positioning, identity systems
• Ability to adapt and find solutions to keep projects moving forward
• Always picks the right tool for the job with an expansive idea of what those tools can be
• Can clearly define the boundaries and opportunities of a project in a written brief
• Thinks about visual identity systems in terms of scalability to different types of media, format, use-cases, and applications
• Designs systems that scale and flex rather than break or become bland
• Ability to organize large sets of information or disparate ideas into clear messaging, taxonomies, and patterns
• Keen eye for choosing, commissioning, creating, and critiquing imagery (illustration, photography, iconography, etc.)
• Can define, develop and create usable interactive experiences, interfaces, and other screen-based designs
• Can set the tone, provide critique, and create prototypes or production-ready motion, time-based, and non-linear designs
• Software, technology, and basic tool literacy is never a barrier to productivity
• Works efficiently and prioritizes work appropriately
• Documents their own work
• Builds processes and systems that improve efficiency and consistency

We’re always pitching for new and exciting technology niches. Some of the areas below are relevant to us!

• Comfortable iterating on website UI/UX for marketing and e-commerce websites
• Experience facilitating conversations around content for a website project
• Experience with motion design and animation tools like After Effects, Principle, or Framer Motion

Our pay scale ranges from $85 p/hr to $150 p/hr pending client/seniority. Our projects are rarely less than 6 full time weeks.

We prefer long standing relationships with highly accountable and communicative team members, so we encourage candidates to expect longer term engagements.

The person we’re looking for is happy, relaxed and easy to get along…