Brand Designer

Retool; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company on a mission to revolutionize software development. As a brand designer, you'll shape the visual identity that impacts millions, collaborating with diverse teams to create a standout brand experience. This role offers the chance to explore innovative design solutions and advocate for a flexible brand system that scales with the business. If you have a passion for branding and a strong portfolio, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Generous Benefits

Hybrid Work Location

Qualifications

• 7+ years of visual design experience in-house or agency.
• Strong understanding of graphic design elements and branding.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams to create extraordinary brand experiences.
• Maintain and expand the brand system to meet business needs.

Skills

Visual Design

Graphic Design Elements

Branding

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Project Management

Curiosity for Design Technologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Design or Related Field

Job description

Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software: Gartner estimates that up to 50% of all code is written for internal use. This is the operational software for refunding orders, underwriting loans, onboarding employees, analyzing transactions, and providing customer support. But most companies don’t have adequate resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old and clunky internal software or, even worse, users still stuck in manual and spreadsheet flows.

At Retool, we’re on a mission to bring good software to everyone. We’re building a new type of development platform that combines the benefits of traditional software development with a drag-and-drop UI editor and AI, making it dramatically faster to build internal tools. We believe that the future of software development lies in abstracting away the tedious and repetitive tasks developers waste time on, while creating reusable components that act as a force multiplier for future developers and projects. The result is not just productivity, but good software by default. And that’s a mission worth striving for.

Today, our customers span from small startups building their first operational tools to Fortune 500 companies building mission-critical apps for thousands of users across their business. Interested in joining us? Let us know!

DESIGN AT RETOOL

Retool designers make decisions that will affect millions of people, from the developers creating software to the employees who operate it every day. Instead of designing just one product, we’re effectively designing unique software products for thousands of companies across many different verticals.

This also presents a unique design challenge. Because it’s possible to build nearly anything in Retool, we don’t have absolute control over how our users experience the product. We’re constantly seeking just the right balance between convention and configuration, between technical expressiveness and conceptual simplicity.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Retool’s visual identity is very much in its infancy with massive potential to expand and grow in how it applies to various aspects of the business. As a brand designer you will play a key role in helping explore and define what that future looks like. You’ll advocate for brand systems while still finding opportunities to break out and explore new territories, iterating through conceptual approaches for a brand that stands out in a sea of generic SaaS businesses. We’re not interested in playing it safe—we want to win the hearts and minds of software developers. This position sits within our Brand Design team and will play a critical role in further shaping Retool’s brand.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL:

• Partner with product, marketing and engineering to create an extraordinary brand experience across retool.com, marketing campaigns, branded content moments, events, product experiences, etc.
• Help maintain and expand flexible brand system for Retool that scales to meet the needs of the business.
• Collaborate within the brand team to establish how Retool’s visual identity is strategically expressed across all experiences.
• Act as a champion for the brand and how design is applied globally.
• Brief and collaborate with external partners for various needs across illustration, motion, video and other agency engagements to execute projects with high production quality.
• Design through iteration, experimentation and learned user behaviors.
• Ensure consistency in brand work across all marketing channels while seeking opportunities to experiment and grow the capabilities of our visual system.
• Be an active participant in design at Retool, providing thoughtful feedback across design and product teams in critiques, reviews, and more.

THE SKILLSET YOU’LL BRING:

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in visual design in-house or an agency setting.
• Experience and understanding of the formal elements of graphic design—including typography, color, layout, and composition.
• A creative focus on visual design applied across various surfaces such as web, environmental experiences, print and digital campaigns, product, etc.
• Passion for branding, demonstrable through a portfolio of strong work in a variety of contexts and execution with a focus on brand systems.
• Experience working with motion designers to conceptualize animated visualizations as a part of a brand system–individual motion experience is a plus.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively.
• A curiosity to stay educated on the latest design technologies and techniques, tempered by a desire to establish an original, opinionated style—not follow trends.
• A track record of successfully collaborating with design, marketing and business partners to translate project needs, audience insights, and constraints into informed design decisions.
• An ability to balance many simultaneous projects, independently prioritize work based on project objectives and business goals, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.
• A proactive, self-starter work ethic with the ability to operate independently within a small team; Thoughtful, empathetic and creative.

Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!

Retool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. To find roles that can be employed in the UK, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations.

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