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Design Lead

panthalassa
Portland, Oregon
Full Time
Posted September 10, 2025
$110k - $135k
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Job Description

The role involves leading the design and branding efforts for a renewable ocean technology company, including developing visual systems, overseeing creative projects, and communicating complex scientific concepts through clear and impactful visual storytelling.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and execute branding and graphic design projects, including websites, campaigns, publications, and brand guides
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and external partners to ensure visual cohesion and high creative standards
  • Manage and drive projects such as investor decks, digital brochures, internal communications, and other deliverables
  • Develop and maintain design systems, asset libraries, and archives to ensure consistency and efficiency
  • Guide the entire creative process from concept to execution, providing creative direction and feedback
  • Refine and protect brand aesthetics through sketching, storyboarding, and prototyping
  • Mentor junior designers and contribute to a collaborative team environment
  • Prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects independently with high attention to detail and craft

Requirements

  • 8 years of experience in graphic, brand or communication design experience at a creative agency, brand, or similar environment
  • 3 years of experience leading projects, teams or cross-functional initiatives
  • Mastery of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
  • Exceptional graphic design fundamentals, typographic sensibilities, strong grids, hierarchy and systems thinking
  • Experience building and evolving design systems
  • Proven ability to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment, while having the vision and autonomy to create systems and process for the future
  • Confident in the work, but balanced by healthy self-doubt
  • Smart, kind, creative, collaborative
  • Verbal and visual articulation skills
  • Comfortable mentoring junior designers and contributing to a healthy team culture
  • Ability to be detail-oriented and meticulous, but also a big picture thinker
  • Ability to maintain a calm confidence in challenging situations
  • Approaches work with curiosity and positivity, and without ego
  • Confident in your taste and ability to clearly communicate that to others without ego
  • Organized and able to prioritize tasks from a big pile
  • Passionate about things outside of work, both creative and otherwise

Benefits & Perks

Cash compensation of 110,000 - 135,000
Equity in the company
Flexible paid time off
Health insurance (100% paid for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
Dental insurance (33% paid by the company for employees, 100% for partners and dependents)
Vision insurance (100% paid by the company for employees, partners, and dependents)
Disability insurance (100% paid by the company)
Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
Relocation assistance to Portland, Oregon

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