Senior UX Design Illustrator (Contract)

Mozilla Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative team at a forward-thinking company as a Senior Illustrator, where your creative skills will shape the visual language of Firefox. This role offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with UX designers and engineers, crafting illustrations that tell compelling stories and enhance user experience. Your work will reach millions globally, making it essential to create culturally sensitive and inclusive designs. If you are passionate about illustration and eager to impact the digital landscape positively, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Strong design execution skills in drawing and graphic design.
• Experience documenting illustration guidelines and standards.

Responsibilities

• Brainstorm with cross-functional teams to create illustration concepts.
• Prepare and create vector illustrations for various themes.

Skills

Graphic Design

Drawing

Composition

Problem-Solving

Creativity

Tools

Illustrator

Procreate

Figma

Job description

This is a 6-month contract via a W-2 engagement with an existing staffing partner.

Hourly Rate Range: $65.00 - $75.00 USD per hour (based on Hiring Range System link)

Why Mozilla?

Along with 20,000+ volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozilla Corporation’s staff are driven by our vision of becoming the trusted guide to a joyful internet. We design, build and distribute software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.

The Opportunity:

As a Senior Illustrator on our Firefox user experience team, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the visual language of our product. You’ll work alongside a cross-functional group to build illustrations that tell a story for product features, evoke emotions or actions, and simplify complex information. You’ll have the opportunity to build on a unique illustration style and get your work in front of millions of users on mobile and desktop.

Your work will be instrumental in telling our product’s story, making sophisticated ideas understandable, and creating a visually cohesive experience for our users.

Moreover, as our product is used globally, your illustrations will be seen by a diverse audience. This presents a unique opportunity to build designs that are culturally sensitive, inclusive, and accessible.

This role is right for you if:

• Have strong design execution skills, including drawing, composition, and graphic design, along with a knowledge of art styles and trends.
• You’re passionate about building on existing illustration styles and exploring new styles when needed.
• You work well to independently scope out, prioritize, and create illustration concepts and final vector illustrations.
• You are open to collaboration with cross-functional partners on illustration ideas concepts.
• You have experience documenting illustration guidelines and standards.
• You have a portfolio of product illustration work.
• You’re experienced with digital illustration tools such as Illustrator, Procreate, and Figma.
• You are driven by helping people, problem-solving, and working in an organization that supports a mission to ensure the internet is a global public resource. Additionally, this job is for you if you consider yourself a creative worker, a forward-thinking and open problem solver, and passionate about working toward just and equitable solutions for varied communities.

Nice to have:

• Motion design and animation experience within illustrations.
• Given the design and interactive nature of this work, you should have experience or eagerness to work remotely across time zones on design and creative activities.

What You'll Get To Do:

• Brainstorm with UX designers, content designers, product managers, and engineers about illustration ideas.
• Be responsible for formulating concepts and sketching draft illustrations from written words, models, sketched ideas, and from your imagination.
• Prepare and create illustrations for different themes and device types using vector illustrations.
• Improve visual concepts using Firefox color palettes and design standards.
• Suggest best practices and optimizations throughout design projects.
• Work with a team on crafting illustrations for experimentation as well as final production assets.
• Implement feedback and changes whenever needed.
• QA illustrations with engineers as they are added to the product.
• Document illustration guidelines and standards that are established.

About Mozilla

When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online. We’re not a normal tech company. The things we create prioritize people and their privacy over profits. We exist to make the internet a healthier, happier place for everyone.

Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

Mozilla believes in the value of diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge, and knows diversity, equity and inclusion are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.

We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate. Please contact us at [e-mail] to request accommodation.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws. Mozilla will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.