Senior Visual Designer
Senior Visual Designer at Kettle, a creative agency, designing end-to-end digital website projects for a large Bay Area tech client in an embedded team. Day to day is hands-on visual design from exploration through final execution in Figma, Sketch, and Adobe tools, partnering with art directors, UX, copy, and production, with onsite stints and mentoring of junior designers.
- Compensation
- $85K–$110K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland OR, Austin TX
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of digital design experience, including websites and digital experiences in an agency and/or in-house environment
- Strong portfolio demonstrating modern, thoughtful visual design across digital experiences with high craft and attention to detail
- Mastery in Figma and Sketch, with strong understanding of design systems and component libraries
- Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote
- Proactive communication skills; ability to work on multiple projects with large and variable teams simultaneously
- Excellent collaboration skills, partnering closely with Art Direction, UX, Copy, Motion, Production, and client teams
- Optimistic and collaborative attitude
- Create differentiating, modern, on-brand design solutions
- Translate creative concepts, product stories, and copy into clear digital experiences across a range of screens and contexts
- Work confidently within an established design system
- Communicate and present exceptionally, speaking clearly to design solutions and web interactions
- Maintain quality and tone across all deliverables from early exploration through final builds
- Accept and incorporate constructive feedback while contributing own point of view
- Support and mentor less experienced designers
- Be onsite 5 days per week for 2-3 months at a time for specific projects (remote at other times of year)
Nice to have
- Stay on top of best design practices and technologies, creatively incorporating new tools and trends
Full description
Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.
We are hiring Senior Visual Designers to join our team designing end-to-end digital website projects for one of our largest clients, a Bay Area based creative tech company. In this embedded role, you’ll partner with Visual Designers, Art Directors, Copy, UX, Production, and our client to create world-class digital experiences. You’ll be hands-on in the work, helping turn creative ideas and product stories into thoughtful, beautifully crafted digital design. You’ll own your design work from exploration through final execution, while also helping guide and support less experienced designers on your team. If conceptual digital design and detailed execution resonate with you, then this role may be a fit.
These roles require team members to be onsite 5 days per week, for 2-3 months at a time, for specific projects. At other times during the year, the team is remote.
Candidates should have:
- At least 5+ years of digital design experience, including time working on websites and digital experiences in an agency and/or in-house environment
- A strong portfolio demonstrating modern, thoughtful visual design across digital experiences, with a high level of craft and attention to detail
- Mastery in Figma and Sketch, with a strong understanding of working within design systems and component libraries
- Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote
- Proactive communication skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects with large and variable teams simultaneously
- Excellent collaboration skills, with experience partnering closely with Art Direction, UX, Copy, Motion, Production, and client teams
- An optimistic and collaborative attitude; genuinely cares about doing great work and working with great people
We’d like to know that you can:
- Create differentiating, modern, on-brand design solutions—it’s about meeting the challenge and then bringing something extra to the table
- Translate creative concepts, product stories, and copy into clear, compelling digital experiences across a range of screens and contexts
- Work confidently within an established design system, knowing when to use existing patterns and when an idea calls for something new
- Communicate and present exceptionally, speaking clearly to design solutions and describing web interactions to your team and clients
- Stay on top of best design practices and technologies, and see opportunities to creatively incorporate new tools and trends to elevate design and user experience