Visual Designer

Role

Daylight Design San Francisco is looking for a Visual Designer. We are looking for individuals who have excellent quality of visual craft execution, strong conceptual and creative thinking skills, and fluidity with the human-centered design process. Because Daylight is a small studio, we prioritize building our team with people who are experts in one discipline, and also have the desire to explore, dabble, fail, and grow in others.

Responsibilities 

The role is a mix of design for interaction (UI/UX, design systems) and design for communication (brand, print, and visual storytelling). Activities may include:

• Craft interfaces for consumer, business and government products (profit and non-profit clients)

• Tell engaging stories of people, projects and brands through compelling graphics, illustrations, infographics

• Create design systems – typography, color, icons, grid systems, etc.

• Collaborate and work seamlessly with a multidisciplinary team of designers, researchers, strategists, project managers and client team members in a highly iterative process

• Work on a variety of projects – from blue sky strategy work to pixel perfect designs for implementation

• Participate in user research – go out in the field to build empathy with real users and document research learnings for analysis

• Collaborate internationally with our offices in Munich and Seoul (travel to these locations if/when project demands)

• Prepare presentations and present work back to clients

You'll get to work on projects like:

• Ebenbuild – Increasing survival rates of patients with acute respiratory distress by creating a digital lung “twin”

• San Francisco Health Network – Designing an integrated public health system for San Francisco residents

• Melon – ​​Transforming Korea's top music streaming service into a holistic music experience

Benefits

Daylight Design is a global design and innovation firm committed to positive social and commercial impact. We combine fluency in the human-centered design process with deep skills in design execution. We are intentionally small, with ~30 individuals across our three studios in San Francisco, Seoul and Munich. Our size allows us to be selective about the work we take on; we only engage in projects that are interesting and net-positive for the world. Daylight is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and we strongly encourage candidates from backgrounds that are underrepresented in design to apply.

You have:

• A degree in graphic design, visual design, interaction design or equivalent

• Training in the fundamentals of typography, color theory, and composition

• 2+ years of professional design experience

• Great visual intuition and a high level of visual / graphic / communication design craft

• Solid experience in design thinking (human-centered design) methodology

• Solid experience in collaborative design and prototyping software (e.g. Figma, Sketch, InVision, etc.)

• Experience working on digital products (mobile apps, web, vehicle, etc)

You are:

• Passionate and generative - you explore design prompts broadly, and stick with the process until you get to a solution that truly resonates.

• Curious and intuitive - you have a strong desire to explore many different areas of the human experience, and a well developed ability to follow your nose to find what’s most interesting and unique.

• Collaborative and self aware in your working style - you can hold and advocate for a point of view, but you balance it with humility and flexibility

• A storyteller at heart