Visual Designer
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
We’re looking for an energetic, versatile designer to join our growing design team and help strengthen BioLite’s visual presence. Here at BioLite, we pride ourselves on a maker attitude. From web design and email development to packaging and environmental design, all things BioLite brand start and end from our office in Brooklyn.
As an in-house designer, this brand is your baby so you have an unwavering urge to project consistency and accuracy in everything you produce. You always aim for pixel-perfection but understand the impact that deadlines can have on your creative approach and workflow.
The ideal candidate has strong illustration skills both on and off the computer. Iconography and diagrammatic storytelling are a big piece of the BioLite visual toolkit and appear everywhere from our instruction manuals to our product launch videos. You will be the primary force behind the creation and maintenance of our illustration library.
You’ll be hopping between digital and print mediums on a regular basis. The ideal candidate has a strong grasp on layout, hierarchy, typography and a general understanding of best practices that apply between the two mediums
Primary Responsibilities
These are the tasks you’ll be tackling on a daily basis:
- Illustration and Iconography: Create new assets for use across our various print, digital and environmental mediums. Maintain our illustration design system in a way that allows for quick recall and application.
- Email Campaigns: Work within a set of approved templates and occasionally create new modules to support email campaigns.
- Digital Design & Development: Using BioLite’s Brand Standards and UI kit, translate approved campaign messaging into posts for bioliteenergy.com, BioLite’s blog, digital display ads and social media posts.
- Collateral and Presentation Design: Support our sales, emerging markets and customer service departments as needed by designing sales sheets, presentations and signage.
Roles & Responsibilities You’ll Grow Into
Longer-lead projects that you’ll work alongside the AD of Visual Design. Already have experience here? Great! Show us what you’ve got.
- Packaging Design: Create primary packaging for new BioLite products. This typically includes a mix of layout, illustration and product photography. Work with our Sales & Product Development groups to ensure deadlines are met for samples and production.
- Point-Of-Purchase: Support our sales team and retail partners by creating concepts for in-store merchandising. This can range from shelf talkers and signage all the way up to fully custom endcap displays.
- Environmental Design: BioLite has a significant presence and industry tradeshows and events throughout the year. Create new graphics and occasionally concept new structures to support sales activities at these events.
Bonus Skills
No need for experience here but if do have the skillsets they’ll be put to good use.
- Photography
- 3D Modeling & Design
- Video Editing
Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in-house or agency preferred. Don’t have this? Apply anyway and demonstrate your experience in your portfolio.
- Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite. Not only do you know the programs but you know the most efficient way to get things done.
- A strong portfolio with an emphasis in illustration and layout (but don’t be afraid to show us your range).
- Sketch, refine, review, repeat. You should be able to iterate quickly and communicate your thought processes through sketches and mockups.
- Resourceful, problem-solving attitude with the ability to quickly work under tight deadlines
Application Instructions
Your application should include:
- A PDF of your resume
- A PDF of your cover letter
- A link to your portfolio or a PDF portfolio (no more than 25 MB)