Senior Visual Designer

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Visual Designer and become our brand ambassador, responsible for building a memorable brand with global impact. You will lead design projects from conception to completion, managing timelines and stakeholders. Collaborate with the brand team to maintain visual identity systems and brand assets. Oversee external design vendors and ensure high-quality work. Coach colleagues and partners on brand usage. Solve problems collaboratively and reflect the Wikimedia Foundation's values. This role requires 6+ years of experience, a deep understanding of design fundamentals, and strong project management skills. Experience working globally and with community stakeholders is a plus.

Requirements

• 6+ year of experience
• Deep understanding on the fundamentals of design
• Attention to detail and craft and ensuring output if at highest standard
• Ability to manage a project's timelines, overseeing projects from start to finish
• Confident and experienced in managing external design partners
• Collaborative individual, with the ability to flourish in a highly transparent (we really mean it) and collaborative environment and work on a team with diverse demographic and cultural characteristics
• Intellectual curiosity and flexibility that makes you enjoy tackling difficult and ambiguous problems in creative ways
• Sense of creative experimentation and innovation: you will be empowered to make and re-make things based on your expertise and experience

Responsibilities

• Exceptional design standard and brand stewardship
• Design with the highest craft standards, and attention to detail, across all touchpoints, from social designs, toolkits, and global campaigns
• Oversee creative projects from start to finish, managing timelines and stakeholders
• Use design thinking to solve complex problems posed by the Foundation teams, partners and volunteers
• Push for better creative, design and branding, inspiring the Foundation and external audiences at large
• A brand ambassador, who safeguards and develops our brand guidelines
• Work with the brand team to maintain a library of brand assets and materials and guidelines for Foundation staff, volunteers and partners around the world to use
• Creating a collaborative environment
• Working collaboratively with the Creative Director, creative team members, and fellow stakeholders in the Foundation, from Product Design colleagues to Fundraising design leads, to solve problems and shape work as one team
• Managing and art directing external design partners, ensuring work delivered is on brief, on quality and on time
• Coach, educate and inspire colleagues, volunteers, partners, and collaborators on the correct usage of brand materials
• Have a positive, problem-solving attitude
• Reflect the Wikimedia Foundation’s values
• Solve problems through collaboration, showcase positive attitude and communicate honestly, clearly and with empathy
• Be a steward of the Wikimedia mission, to build the sum of all knowledge, and embrace human diversity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in working globally and in a range of markets. You've partnered with diverse vendors and engaged international audiences
• Experience working with brands that have community stakeholders, advising global volunteer community

Benefits

• Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture
• The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ 90,223 to US$ 139,037 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay
• For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire
• We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants
• The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location