Remote Visual Designer

Summary

Join Elastic, the Search AI Company, as a Visual Designer to craft imaginative advertising campaigns and help build a fun, quirky, and memorable brand. You will design mixed-media content for all brand touch-points, follow and uphold our design system, support internal partners, and have strong illustrative skills.

Requirements

• 3+ years of working in design teams at creative agencies or in-house. This is not an entry-level or associate role
• Illustration! Illustration! Illustration! You have strong illustrative skills. Concept sketches are a must when working with our content team and copywriters. Icons? No problem, you’ve been there and done that
• Strong portfolio with examples of illustrations, campaigns, design systems, and web asset creation
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including communicating effectively in small and large groups and defending your design decisions
• Prior experience working in the technology industry. You enjoy learning about new technologies and can collaborate with Product Marketers to translate complex concepts into engaging assets
• Understand business goals, product roadmaps, and user insights to translate into clear design priorities for yourself
• You have mastered all the usual Adobe tools, such as Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
• We also use Figma to craft web pages and ads. Yes, presentation tools like Keynote and Google Slides will be used
• Ability to uphold responsiveness and collaboration in a remote environment. You are an organized self-starter with strong communication skills. Being part of a distributed team requires proactive communication and sometimes even oversharing

Responsibilities

• Design mixed-media content for all brand touch-points
• Visual storytelling skills - Design and prepare engaging presentations with compelling content and visuals
• Follow and uphold our design system - From icons, typography, and color palette to illustration and photography, you will know how the pieces come together and why. Enforce design standards, curate asset libraries, and enforce brand integrity
• Support internal partners - through clear guidelines, assets, and creative problem-solving

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave