Senior Brand Designer (Maternity Cover)

About the role

As a Senior Brand Designer at Blockchain, you will play a crucial role in shaping the company's visual identity and enhancing user experiences across various digital platforms. Your work will involve creating compelling visual assets for marketing, web, and product interfaces, ensuring that all designs reflect the brand's high standards and sophistication.

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including designers and product managers, to produce visually impactful work that resonates with users. Success in this role requires a keen eye for detail, a strong design sensibility, and the ability to manage multiple projects efficiently while maintaining a collaborative mindset.

The salary range for this role is between $112,000 and $188,000, depending on experience.

Skills that matter here

• Adobe Photoshop: This role requires strong proficiency in Photoshop for creating and editing visual assets.
• Adobe Illustrator: Illustrator is essential for producing vector graphics and illustrations.
• Adobe InDesign: InDesign is used for layout design and creating polished presentations.
• Figma: Figma is crucial for designing user interfaces and collaborating with product teams.
• Motion design: Experience in motion design will enhance the creation of subtle animations for digital assets.
• Typography: A deep understanding of typography is necessary for effective visual communication.

Who this role suits

• A designer with a strong portfolio showcasing exceptional visual taste and execution.
• Someone who is detail-oriented and can spot inconsistencies in design.
• A collaborative individual who values teamwork and contributes ideas without ego.
• A proactive self-starter who can manage multiple projects and deliver high-quality work.

From the employer

What You Will Do

• Create exceptional visual work.
• Design and execute high-quality creative assets across brand, marketing, digital products, web, social, presentations and other brand touchpoints.
• Elevate our digital experiences.
• Collaborate on the visual design and user experience of the Blockchain.com app and website, bringing a strong brand perspective to product interfaces and digital journeys.
• Bring a photographic eye.
• Use photography, image selection, art direction, cropping, composition and retouching to create compelling, sophisticated visual experiences.
• Make simplicity powerful.
• Create designs that feel refined and intentional, with an understanding of negative space, visual hierarchy, restraint and the power of a limited colour palette.
• Make typography matter.
• Bring an exceptional understanding of typography, from type selection and hierarchy to spacing, proportion and the finer details of execution.
• Develop beautiful 2D creative assets.
• Produce digital graphics, campaign assets and visual compositions, with the ability to incorporate subtle animation or motion where it adds value.
• Maintain an exceptional standard of craft.
• Sweat the details, challenge average execution and ensure everything that goes out feels considered and beautifully finished.
• Collaborate across disciplines.
• Work closely with designers, marketers, product teams and other stakeholders to turn briefs into visually compelling, effective creative work.

What You Will Need

• A strong portfolio that demonstrates exceptional visual taste and execution, not just a collection of completed projects.
• Significant experience in brand design, visual design or art direction, with the ability to work confidently at a senior level.
• A sophisticated, contemporary design sensibility, ideally with experience creating work for premium, luxury, editorial, lifestyle or technology brands.
• An excellent eye for photography, composition, lighting, imagery and visual storytelling.
• Deep expertise in typography, layout, hierarchy, colour and visual balance.
• A natural instinct for simplicity and restraint. You know when to take something away rather than add something more.
• Strong proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
• Experience creating digital assets and designing for websites, apps and responsive environments.
• Motion design or animation skills are a welcome bonus, particularly subtle, elegant animation of 2D assets.
• An extremely high level of attention to detail, combined with the ability to work efficiently across multiple projects.
• A proactive, self-directed approach. You take ownership, move things forward and don't need extensive direction to produce outstanding work.
• A collaborative, low-ego mindset and a genuine enthusiasm for creating great work alongside other talented people.

What Makes Someone Successful Here

• You have strong opinions about design, but you don't have an ego about them.
• You notice things other people miss. The slightly wrong crop. The inconsistent spacing. The typography that almost works but isn't quite right.
• You understand the difference between something that looks good and something that feels exceptional.
• You're equally comfortable starting with a blank canvas, refining an existing concept or elevating a piece of work through a series of small, thoughtful decisions.
• Above all, you have exceptional taste, and the technical ability to turn that taste into beautiful, finished work.

The Opportunity

• This is an opportunity to work across a highly visible global brand at the intersection of finance, technology and culture.
• You'll have the freedom to contribute ideas, influence the quality of our creative output and make a tangible impact across a wide variety of projects.
• We're looking for someone who loves the craft of design and takes genuine pride in the things they make.

Compensation & Perks

• Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company.
• Role based in our Paris office, with a mandatory in-office presence four days per week.
• Work from Anywhere Policy: You can work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year.
• Budgets for learning & professional development.
• Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it.
• Apple equipment.
• The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an emerging field.
• Flexible work culture.