Senior Graphic Designer

Scaleforward; Kailua (HI); On-site; USD 99,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Mentor in your corner

Flexible hours

Job summary

ScaleForward in Kailua, HI is seeking a Senior Graphic Designer to set creative direction and execute hands-on design. This role emphasizes ownership of creative work and a trajectory that rewards an 7-year ascent into leadership, with a headline salary of $99,000 - $158,000.

You’ll frame decisions for the Kailua sales floor, storyboard motion pieces, mentor peers, and collaborate with marketing, product, and editorial teams based in Kailua.

Qualifications

• 6+ years navigating the politics that creative work attracts.
• Professionalism, integrity, and discretion with sensitive information.
• Demonstrated knack for managing highly collaborative work.
• HI work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway

Responsibilities

• Frame each design decision in terms the Kailua, HI sales floor can repeat
• Storyboard motion pieces that hold attention past the three-second scroll mark
• Support senior designers through critique, mentorship, and shared best practices
• Write microcopy that does the heavy lifting buttons usually get blamed for
• Collaborate with marketing, product, and editorial teams based in Kailua
• Trace a thread from ScaleForward values to the smallest UI detail
• Shape brand voice across every touchpoint our Kailua customers actually notice

Skills

6+ yrs design leadership

Collaboration & mentorship

Discretion with sensitive information

Reliability for hard assignments

Job description

We're after a Senior Graphic Designer who can set creative direction and roll up their sleeves to make it happen. The headline is $99,000 - $158,000, but the story is ownership — creative work you steer at ScaleForward after just 7 years.

Key Responsibilities

• Frame each design decision in terms the Kailua, HI sales floor can repeat
• Storyboard motion pieces that hold attention past the three-second scroll mark
• Support senior designers through critique, mentorship, and shared best practices
• Write microcopy that does the heavy lifting buttons usually get blamed for
• Collaborate with marketing, product, and editorial teams based in Kailua
• Trace a thread from ScaleForward values to the smallest UI detail
• Shape brand voice across every touchpoint our Kailua customers actually notice

What You'll Bring

• The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments
• 6+ years navigating the politics that creative work attracts
• Professionalism, integrity, and discretion with sensitive information
• Demonstrated knack for making the wildly-collaborative feel manageable
• A HI work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway

At ScaleForward, a ruthlessly-focused team in Kailua, HI has spent years proving that Heatmap Analysis and Sketch belong in the same conversation. At ScaleForward you can challenge your skip-level's plan and still get a thank-you for it.

What you get for saying yes: $99,000 - $158,000, a mentor in your corner, full benefits, and hours that flex toward what matters in Kailua.

Marked current today, the freelance opportunity at ScaleForward is accepting candidates.

Your Illustration deserves a stage bigger than your current one, and ScaleForward has it.