Aura is on a mission to create a safer internet. In a world where our lives are increasingly online, Aura's category-defining suite of intelligent digital safety products help millions of customers protect themselves against digital threats, and that number is growing rapidly. This is an exciting phase at Aura, and our team of over 600 people worldwide is guided by a leadership slate that's successfully grown startups into multi-billion dollar organizations.
Come join us for the ride!
About the role:
We’re looking for a Senior Visual Designer to join Aura. In this role, you’ll work cross-functionally with our mostly remote design team. This will be an excellent opportunity to learn from fellow designers across many disciplines and to develop design skills in a fast-growing startup.
Aura has a hybrid work model that enables All-stars to split their time between the office and home, providing the advantages of having both in-person time with colleagues, and flexible at-home work/life balance. This role will be located at our Boston, MA or Austin, TX office.
Day to Day:
- Be responsible for building and maintaining visual brand excellence across the company’s websites
- Provide objective design thinking and creative thinking to projects
- Assist the Design team in implementing precise visual design
- Support the SEO team and create responsive designs for desktop, tablet, mobile, and email
- Create concepts and designs for a wide range of marketing needs including web content, promotional materials, marketing collateral, events, presentations
- Create consistent executions across all channels and audiences
- Build and manage asset libraries for reusable, systematic design
- Be involved in projects throughout all stages of production including brief building, concepting, refinement, artworking and implementation
- Work on marketing assets and presentations for business development and marketing
- Supporting social media outreach and engagement
- Design multiple projects on parallel timelines to cross-functional teams
What You Bring to the Table:
- A strong, memorable online portfolio that features a mix of branding, typographic, & self-initiated work
- Experience working as a visual designer: 5+ years working in a design agency or in a product-focused startup with digital product experience
- Expert understanding of the formal elements of design, including typography, layout, balance, and proportion
- Problem solver that requires very little guidance on projects; thrives in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated ability to produce compelling illustrations to convey a brand story and experience in designing infographics, decks, communications toolkits
- Strong, clean visual design sense
- Expert knowledge in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma
- Highly diligent, with a drive for precision down to the last pixel
- Strong understanding of accessibility principles
It would be great if you also had:
- Basic level understanding of HTML & CSS
- Animation and motion graphic skills
Aura is proud to be an equal employment workplace. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, veteran status, or any protected category. Beyond equal employment opportunity, Aura is committed to being an inclusive community where all feel welcome.
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