Brand Designer

📋 Description

• 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.

• This position sits within our Brand Design team and will play a critical role in further shaping Retool’s brand.

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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!