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Description

We are on the lookout for a Design Lead to join our client's team based in Mountain View, California. As the Design Lead, you will play a crucial role in maintaining the visual identity and design consistency across all their products and platforms. This role involves hands-on design work and team leadership, ensuring that the brand language and design execution meet high standards of creativity and impact.

Key Responsibilities

Lead Visual Design:

+ Develop and evolve overall visual identity, graphic language, and design systems across all brands, products, and experiences.

+ Ensure consistency, creativity, and impact across deliverables such as marketing, product, and educational materials.

+ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create compelling visuals and seamless user experiences.

Hands-On Design:

+ Execute graphic design work for educational resources, including student materials, teacher guides, infographics, event visuals, and interactive designs.

+ Create visually appealing assets for the organization's website, ensuring user-friendly, creative design that highlights products and mission.

+ Break down complex topics into simple and engaging visual formats.

Team Leadership & Creative Direction:

+ Mentor, manage, and guide a small design team as the organization scales.

+ Provide feedback and set a creative standard while remaining hands-on with design tasks.

+ Build scalable design systems, style guides, and workflows to maintain high-quality visual output during rapid growth.

Requirements

+ Senior-level experience in graphic design, art direction, or visual design leadership.

+ Must have CPG industry experience, preferably within the toy space

+ Ability to effectively balance leadership with hands-on execution of design work.

+ Advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and Figma.

+ Experience designing for a variety of platforms and formats, including websites, educational materials, packaging, social media, and marketing campaigns.

+ Strong ability to simplify complex topics into engaging and clear visuals.

+ Strategic mindset to scale and evolve visual branding as part of a growing organization.

+ Bonus: Experience creating motion graphics, animation, or work within education/STEM-related industries.

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