Responsibilities
- Partner with product designers across pods (insurance, financial products, home services, and others) to bring illustration, motion, and visual polish into flows that drive measurable conversion lift.
- Sit in critiques, push back, and propose visual solutions to product problems.
- Design and produce original illustrations, icon sets, and visual assets that extend our brand into product surfaces — editorial pages, landmark templates, conversion funnels, AI/LLM templates, and onboarding.
- Build illustration systems that scale, not one-offs.
- Own motion work end-to-end, from storyboard and concept through After Effects composition, Lottie export, and lightweight SVG/CSS animation specs handed to engineering.
- Ensure motion ships at the quality you designed.
- Develop and maintain illustration and motion guidelines as part of our design system — defining style, usage rules, reusable components, and motion tokens.
- Contribute to high-visibility sponsored content packages and media kit deliverables, working alongside BD, editorial, and brand stakeholders when those projects call for senior visual craft.
- Concept and prototype visual ideas quickly — comps, moodboards, animation tests to align stakeholders before production.
- Collaborate with front-end engineers on implementation, specifying motion behavior, easing, timing, and fallback states so what ships matches intent.
- Work across design, product, editorial, BD, and engineering.
- Articulate why a visual choice matters in plain language to non-designers.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience as a visual designer, graphic designer, illustrator, or motion designer, ideally with time inside a product, editorial, or digital media environment.
- A portfolio that demonstrates range: original illustration work, strong typographic and layout craft, and motion pieces you've taken from concept to shipped asset.
- Deep fluency in After Effects, Lottie (Bodymovin or equivalent), Figma, and the Adobe suite.
- Comfort with SVG animation and a working understanding of how motion ships on web.
- Experience producing illustration systems that scale across a product or brand — defining style, rules, and reusable components rather than producing isolated assets.
- Strong opinions about craft, paired with the collaborative instincts to work inside a product design team and respond to business and conversion goals.
- Ability to articulate the rationale behind a visual choice in plain language to PMs, engineers, editors, and commercial stakeholders.
- Comfortable iterating quickly in a fast-paced environment and distilling direction from open-ended briefs.
- Remote-first experience with strong asynchronous communication habits.
- You bring people together—articulate vision, build alignment, and foster cross-team collaboration through inspiring narrative.
Nice to Have
- Working knowledge of front-end fundamentals (HTML/CSS/SVG) sufficient to spec animations for engineering.
- Familiarity with AI image and motion tools (Gemini, Whisk, Flow, Runway) as part of a production workflow.
- Experience designing for editorial or media brands.
- Background in advertising, sponsored content, or branded creative.
- Experience contributing to a design system.
Benefits
- Day off on the 3rd Friday of every month (one long weekend each month).
- Monthly Wellness Reimbursement Program to promote health well-being.
- Monthly Office Commutation Reimbursement Program.
- Paid paternity and maternity leaves.
