Freelance Digital Comms Designer

The communication design team create the largest impact with clients where they can translate complex ideas and concepts, into compelling human centered designs and stories. Bringing ideas to life that inspire, engage and motivate our design teams, our clients and the end users.

Successful candidates will bring a wide range of experiences in multiple fields within communication design including: Brand Identity, Editorial Design, Information Graphics, Typography, Packaging Design, Exhibition Design.  Incredibly strong portfolio upon application and a minimum of five years experience required.  Onsite at our Palo Alto location is required, but can be flexible after being onboarded.

Job Description:

• Develop brand strategies to guide the experience a user has with a company, product or service, and lead the creation of the brand identity to express a brand across all touchpoints with users
• Create compelling visual narratives that communicate user stories and our strategic solutions
• Make sense of complex org. charts, business flows and data via information and data visualization design
• Collaborate and lead teams of multidisciplinary designers with backgrounds such as industrial design, interaction design, business design and mechanical engineering to solve problems across a variety of industries
• Create prototypes of different levels of fidelity to help teams determine the design direction
• Be an advocate for exceptional visual design
• Help clients empathize with users by creating deliverables that tell a compelling story

Relevant Experience:

• A strong portfolio of communication design experience across a variety of applications and media
• A track record of leading teams, working with multidisciplinary teams and senior level clients
• Ability to tackle a diverse and complex set of design challenges and recognize patterns to help develop creative and strategic solutions
• Experience establishing a brand identity, from understanding strategy to creative interpretation and execution; designing visual identities, defining brand architectures and building clear and useful guidelines for implementation
• Strong information and visualization design skills including typography and layout, and a passion for visual design across a breadth of media
• The ability to in crafting compelling narratives utilising print, film and digital mediums
• Exceptional communication and production design skills
• Passion for learning and experimenting with new methods to deliver design solutions
• Bachelor’s degree or higher, in graphic design, communications design, or an equivalent visual degree
• Demonstrated proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience working with medical interfaces