Job Description

Title: Senior Visual Designer

Location: United States

Remote

Able is a product acceleration studio a professional services model that thinks, works, and operates like a startup. We are 90+ Product Strategists, Designers, Engineers, and Program Managers in 8 countries. We work primarily with early stage companies and nonprofit innovators to help them innovate and scale their products, fast. Our teams are powered by our Builder Mindset, the always-on drive to create something that’s never been made before.

We are seeking a seasoned digital visual designer to join our evolving Product Design team. The role of the visual designer is to bring a unique and memorable approach that pushes the boundaries of how products look and feel. They will help us establish a new culture and practice of design within our organization that will elevate the products we create and improve the way we deliver our services to our partners.

Your day-to-day

• Supporting product designers by directing the visual design and art direction for key parts of the product with a focus on the intricacies of typography, color, imagery, and space
• Designing hi-fidelity mock-ups with detailed layout and interface design, enhancing the usability and experience of the solution
• Reviewing product designers’ work and ensuring the quality of what the team delivers, collaboratively pushing past the status quo
• Clearly communicating compelling design rationale internally and for partners, actively participating in gathering feedback, and agreeing on revisions and direction
• Working hand-in-hand with engineers and product team members to foster innovation and ensure feasibility and fidelity of implementation
• Having influence over our brand identity, supporting its evolution as we grow, and incorporating it into our external-facing materials such as deck templates, bios, social posts, swag, memos, etc.
• Helping us to create content for our social channels in order to help Able to show our best selves

What you bring

• 5+ years of digital agency or consultancy design experience, ideally in a senior-level role
• Excitement to design for a variety of solutions to which design can be applied (e.g., sites and applications for web, mobile, presentation decks, experience maps)
• A hunger for giving and receiving feedback for the opportunity to improve in your role, the work, and how we work as a team
• A drive to coach other designers to help the team continuously improve designs
• A portfolio that includes interface design and art direction, is strong in UX thinking, and has product design examples
• An intrinsic interest to stay on top of desktop and mobile best practices, developments, and trends in digital design
• Mastery of user experience, visual design best practices, and common design tools (e.g., Figma) with extra credit for prototyping software
• Extra credit for specialized skills in creating visual assets such as illustration, animation, 3D, photography, or branding

What you’ll love about Able

• We are a team of all-around company builders who are both ambitious and down-to-earth
• A relaxed, remote-first environment
• We offer competitive base compensation, 100% employer-paid health benefits, 401k, paid parental leave, and snacks shipped to your home
• A culture designed around the whole employee. We encourage and enable curious, empathetic, and collaborative team members who are inspired to co-create the future of Able
• We support and ensure a healthy work-life balance is maintained through realistic deadlines, hours, and goals and have incorporated no meetings and shortened Friday hours
• Flexible paid time off for all full-time employees. This includes vacation, sick days, wellness days, and social impact hours that you can use to take time off and give back to your community
• Monthly health and wellness reimbursements

Our core values

• Champion Outcomes Over Effort; You take ownership of problems and emphasize that the results created are more important than the time we spend or the approach that we take
• Contribute to the Solution; You are responsible for identifying issues, and doing what you can to help solve them
• Put People First; You emphasize people and relationships over process or ideas. You seek to build and reinforce trust with colleagues and clients
• Commit to Diversity; You contribute to a world where everyone can be themself, together
• Get Better Every Day; You believe we all have the ability to improve and we’re driven to help everyone be the best they can be