Remote Staff Visual Designer

Summary

Join Wrike as a Visual Design Lead and contribute to the development of the company's product design language, creating a strong emotional connection between Wrike and its customers.

Requirements

• Significant professional visual design experience for user interfaces that manage large volumes of data and a high degree of complexity
• Experience in creative direction for web applications
• A portfolio demonstrating an expert grasp of design fundamentals (e.g. color, depth, layout, typography, iconography, illustrations, etc.) applied to digital products, and an ability to connect visual design to specific brand attributes and business goals
• Experience creating and maintaining design systems in Figma
• Strong communication and persuasion skills with an ability to distill complex ideas to their essence and present designs to a wide range of audiences, including designers, engineers and executive leadership
• Excellent time management skills with an ability to support multiple small, tactical consulting projects, while simultaneously maintaining momentum through long-running strategic initiatives
• An ability to proactively seek feedback and collaboration to generate a divergent set of potential directions and narrow in on the most promising
• Advanced English language skills: written and spoken

Responsibilities

• Take Wrike’s product look and feel to the next level by developing a modern and attractive visual design language that reflects the company’s brand identity
• Maintain our Figma design system and design language documentation
• Partner with the UI Kit team to identify and execute on the most impactful opportunities to deliver an exceptional user experience
• Work closely with Wrike’s Creative Design team in the Marketing organization to ensure we stay aligned with the current and future direction of the Wrike brand
• Provide feedback on the work of product designers to ensure that the design language is applied correctly and consistently across the entire Wrike experience
• Research user interface trends and the potential impact of new technologies on the user experience
• Stay up to date with design directions and innovations in competing products
• Actively design and build products by working closely with other designers, product managers, and engineers
• Construct compelling artifacts that communicate research and strategic directions (mood boards, graphic and motion studies)
• Apply Wrike’s design language to functional areas of our product, UI components, and design system elements
• Participate in the continuous improvement of customer experience tools and processes, and scalable product design standards
• Collaborate with development teams and business leaders to drive successful implementation of phenomenal experiences in our software and services
• Participate in design-thinking exercises to break through organizational silos and collaboratively seek sophisticated design challenges
• Provide occasional guidance and training to other employees within your specialist area

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing accessible products (a11y)
• 2D motion design experience using Adobe After Effects or similar
• 3D design experience
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Benefits

• 28 calendar days of paid vacation
• Sick leave compensation
• Life insurance plan
• Health insurance plan
• Fitness plan (800 EUR/year)
• Parental leave
• 2 volunteer days
• Full-remote & On-demand access to Co-working space
• Utility allowance (30 EUR/month, subject to taxation)