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You will be responsible for translating complex brand identity needs, product goals, and design challenges into visually compelling and impactful design solutions. Your role will involve quickly visualizing and prototyping design concepts through mood boards, hi-fidelity mockups, visual comps, and animations to effectively communicate design ideas and direction. It is essential to create iterative visual designs that align with the product objectives, adhere to brand and visual guidelines, and incorporate feedback from internal reviews and usability testing. You will be expected to elevate the product and brand by developing cohesive and elegant visual design systems, leveraging modern UI trends and patterns from concept through to final execution. Additionally, you should clearly articulate the creative strategy and rationale behind design decisions to stakeholders and champion the company's visual identity while advocating for design quality across all touchpoints. As part of your responsibilities, you will take ownership and accountability of specific product lines or product verticals, ensuring consistency and innovation in visual output. Your ability to define visual design problems clearly and craft solutions that enhance user experience while meeting business objectives will be crucial. Efficiently integrating feedback to produce high-quality, visually engaging work on tight deadlines is a key aspect of this role. You will also be expected to lead and mentor junior designers to ensure a high standard of design output across the team. Proactive collaboration with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and marketing, is essential to ensure seamless design implementation. Managing multiple visual design projects concurrently, balancing competing priorities with a focus on quality and deadlines, will be part of your daily tasks. Consistently delivering world-class visual designs in a fast-paced, loosely defined environment is a core expectation. The ideal candidate for this position will demonstrate a strong drive for excellence and an enthusiasm to constantly push the boundaries of the visual and user experience created. You should possess a strong fundamental knowledge of design principles, user behavior, and design trends, along with 5-8 years of experience designing high-impact consumer-facing digital experiences. A deep passion for thinking differently and challenging conventional approaches to design is crucial. Proven expertise in the world of Visual design, including research, building a cohesive brand identity, illustrative and iconographic work, UI and graphical work, is expected. Experience working in cross-functional teams with product managers, engineers, and UX designers is a key requirement. Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop, or animation tools is necessary. Familiarity with building and managing design systems and brand guidelines will be advantageous. Clear, concise verbal and written communication skills, strong presentation, and influencing skills are essential qualities for the ideal candidate. You should demonstrate a strong balance between idealism and pragmatism in thought and action and be a thought leader when it comes to user experience and design in general. An online portfolio of professional work is required, and proven experience working on and conceptualizing/art directing motion design and microinteraction elements in digital products will be beneficial.,
