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Appfire is looking for an exceptional Senior Brand Designer (Contractor) to join our fast-growing team. YOU are a creative machine, with a passion for outstanding graphic design and pixel-perfect websites, extremely high standards for your own work, and a strong desire for continuous improvement. YOUR design skills and attention to detail are only matched by your love of a well-crafted style guide and your desire to work within a fast-paced, “startup-like” environment. You have experience running an in-house design team and love the idea of not just managing but also leading by example and jumping into design files yourself.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Leading a team of designers with guidance from our Creative Director.
• Creating and maintaining style guides for our multi-solution product portfolio.
• Be an inspirational mentor for our team of designers
• Maintaining and growing our list of outsourced vendors, as well as being the source of truth for the Appfire Brand
• Using design elements such as color, typography, illustration, and photography to create striking and compelling layouts.
• Designing amazing responsive websites and landing pages for our marketing campaigns and catalog of brands
• Working closely with our email marketing specialist to ensure that outgoing campaigns and other assets meet our brand guidelines and represent our brands at the highest standard.
• Collaborating with product marketing managers to prioritize projects and manage workflow to ensure projects meet production deadlines.
• Maintaining a thorough working knowledge of print production, color requirements, preflight packaging, and common print pitfalls to avoid.
• Creating and maintaining a digital archive of all creative assets — organized and accessible in a collaborative design platform.
• Leading and participating in regular team and company meetings.

About Your Skills and Experience

• Minimum 5 – 8 years of professional design experience required.
• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or a related field is required.
• High-level proficiency in Figma and the Adobe suite.
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
• Incredibly high standards for your own creative work.
• Appreciation for core aesthetic principles to ensure the deployment of messaging campaigns aligns with our core design themes and high standards for visual output.
• Impeccable spelling and grammar, and thorough proofreading skills with a consistent eye for detail.
• Ability to effectively prioritize, self-manage, and work independently.
• Ability to efficiently shift between different brands, products and project types frequently.
• Ability to confidently present your designs, strategy, and articulate your vision concisely.
• Enduring passion for continuous improvement is highly valued on this team.
• Can maximize their output and excel in a work-from-home setting.
• All applications must include a link to your current personal design portfolio in the “Website, Blog or Portfolio” form field. Submissions without an outstanding graphic and web development portfolio will not be considered.

Nice to have: 

• Motion graphics experience
• Experience with Atlassian tooling, such as Trello, Jira, and Confluence, a plus.
• Remote working experience