Studio: Purple, Rock, Scissors
Job Opening: Illustrator
Location: Mountain View, CA, US
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate effectively with Content, Design, Motion, and Engineering to identify opportunities, prioritize projects, and implement illustrations for features. This includes working on existing features and upcoming projects, and ensuring graphics are integrated seamlessly into the user experience.
- Design and implement robust, usable, and delightful illustrations that adhere to current design language and illustration libraries, and address pain points like inconsistencies throughout the experience to drive cohesion across surfaces and products.
Qualifications & Skills:
- High school graduate, junior college, or Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Five years of experience in product design or UX.
- Experience working with motion design (either implementing motion or collaborating with a motion designer).
- Understand the intricacies of UI elements (color, type, layout, iconography, surfaces) and leverage appropriate prototyping tools to help demonstrate how interactions with those elements behave based on user needs.
- Experience contributing to mature design systems including illustration library, documentation, and education.
- Knowledge of technical constraints in designing for web, iOS, and Android.
- Comfortable working with front-end engineering teams for web and mobile user interfaces.
- Knowledge of creating optimized, scalable assets for multiple devices and screen sizes. Big plus if you’ve contributed code for web or native apps.
- Experience with accessibility standards.
- Advocate user-centered design principles across multiple platforms, and great technical know-how
- Can work within constraints, and execute with attention to detail.
- Strong ability/vision to navigate complex problems by devising beautiful creative solutions
- Strong communication, collaboration, and creative problem-solving skills.
- Expert with Figma and Illustrator, with a strong awareness of strengths and limitations
- Portfolio highlighting multiple projects, with at least one focusing on a design system.
