Visual Brand Designer

Primary Role

Odessa is looking for a passionate Visual Designer to join our creative marketing team, someone with a clean design aesthetic, incredible layout and compositional skills, mastery of type, proficiency designing web experiences, brand systems, marketing collateral, advertising, plus a strength with styles of Illustration. Please submit your portfolio link when applying.

This is a hands-on creative role with tremendous opportunity to drive fun projects, lead visual brand design for marketing across all touch points, mentor junior designers. You will be a part of a creative team that touches a variety of projects, including identity application, web page design, print, digital ads, landing pages, social media, online and offline collateral and much more.

You are a visual designer, can share and sell ideas, have a refined aesthetic and design sensibility and find varying styles an opportunity to extend and grow your skills. You sweat the smallest details, understand what it takes to develop and work on great creative work, excel in driving cross-discipline collaboration, and have experience translating strategies into great brand experiences.

What you’ll do

• Concept and develop brand marketing materials such as paid, email, social, field, webpage designs, AD campaigns and landing pages, collateral digital, print
• Work with partners in Marketing, Strategy, Product
• Elevate and evolve the brand within overall brand guidelines
• Lead the direction for visual brand, art direction for photo and video shoots, web
• Create pixel-perfect layouts for web, email and landing pages, exhibition graphics, some presentation design, information graphics, custom illustration, and some animation
• Craft graphic elements, mood boards, and visual treatments
• Present design concepts and ideas to internal and external stakeholders
• Excel at illustration in a modern, vibrant style, can illustrate icons, abstract software concepts, brand assets of all kinds that comprise a brand framework
• Liaison with agency creative flex teams

Basic qualifications

• 7+ years of agency or inhouse experience, designing and illustrating ideas across media
• Strong visual design portfolio showcasing visual design across media, brand frameworks, illustration
• Expert in Photoshop, Illustrator and Adobe XD/Figma, InDesign a nice to have
• Experience with multiple styles of design and illustration
• Experience in photo/video art direction, some animation
• Mastery and experimentation of design fundamentals (color, typography, composition, and layout)
• Knowledge of best practices in usability and UX
• Understand the opportunities and limitations of the modern web
• Animation/motion graphics knowledge in software such as After Effects
• Desire to work in a start-up environment, where iteration and learning is encouraged