Senior Brand Designer
San Francisco Bay Area
Design & Product /
Full-Time /
Canal’s mission is to help trusted brands sell more, their way. As our first Brand Designer, you will define and guide the development of Canal’s brand as we continue growing and evolving. This means working closely with both marketing and product to bring this vision to life and identify opportunities to express Canal’s uniqueness through visual, motion or written form. We're backed by top VC firms and e-commerce leaders, including Forerunner Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, and were named one of Business Insider’s top retail tech startups to bet your careers on.
What You'll Do
- Partner closely with marketing, product, and design to elevate our website, social media presence, sales decks, design system and more
- Design templates and graphics for sales proposals, marketing guides, blog posts, documentation, presentations and other materials
- Play a significant role in the evolution of our brand, voice, and strategy as Canal grows as a company and product
- Tell Canal’s story - creating a variety of assets for our social and web presence, in-app marketing materials, and beyond
- Create illustrations and diagrams for documentation to explain complex features, benefits and workflows for Sales, Marketing and Customer Success use
- Work closely with our Product Designer to ensure a single look and feel extends across all Canal properties and collaborate on maintaining a single, dynamic shared design system in Figma
- Be an active participant and leader in design critiques, providing thoughtful feedback across product and design teams
Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant work in a creative field - startup experience is a plus
- Known for clear, direct communication (written and verbal) and collaborating well with a diverse set of interest groups (designers, executives)
- Familiar with marketing technology platforms, operations and design tools: Social channel formats, Website design, Figma, Photoshop, Webflow, etc.
- Expert in designing for a variety of mediums, including website, email, advertising, landing
- Familiar with UI design & design systems
- Comfortable creating across a gamut of assets - static image, basic animation, etc. If you don’t, you know how to find the right people or are eager to learn a new tool to get things done
- Highly organized and have an eye for detail and craftsmanship, while understanding and not sacrificing deadlines and constraints
- A portfolio that exhibits real passion for your craft and strong conceptual ability
- Ability to work independently or collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
- Agile and easily adapt to change, constructive feedback, and evolving deadlines
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience in Design
Nice to Haves
- Experience partnering with external agencies/contractors
- Love for reflecting and writing about your process and POV
- A flexible, can-do attitude that is eager for some start-up energy!
- Experience in and/or a passion for e-commerce
- Some non-agency/in house experience preferred
Benefits
- 💰 Competitive compensation packages based on experience
- 🏝 Unlimited PTO + 12 company holidays
- 💊 Quality health, vision, dental, and life insurance
- 💰 Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 👵 401K plans w/ 3% employer contribution
- 🤱👨🍼12 weeks paid maternity & paternity leave
- 🚌 Commuter Benefits
- 🚕 Rideshare from office provided after 8 PM
- 🍕 Dinner provided after 5:30 PM
- 🏠 One-time $300 Home Office Stipend
- 💪 $60 gym credit (our SF office has a gym!)
- 🤝 $10K referral bonus for technical roles / $5K for non-technical roles, paid out after 3 months as long as the referred employee remains in good standing
- ✈️ In-flight wifi expensable if you’re working during the flight
- 🏗️ Occupational Accident Insurance
- 🎁 Free samples from our amazing brand partners!
- 💚 An agile, motivated team based in San Francisco, with the challenging and fulfilling opportunity to help create a completely new kind of online shopping experience!
Canal is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other protected class.
