Brand Designer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Job Type: Brand Designer
• Salary: Not provided

Axios is a growth-stage company dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format. We're hiring a mid-level Brand Designer to focus on our Events and Growth initiatives. This person will work within the Brand Design team designing for live events, growth marketing campaigns, landing pages, emails and newsletters, social media and more, making sure that everything we do always looks and feels like Axios.

We are looking for a talented, multi-disciplinary Brand Designer who will work within a collaborative team that supports many other departments in the company, including our Axios Live (live events) and Growth teams. You will be leveraging storytelling, layout, typography and motion, to help our team design high-quality deliverables that are clear, smart and engaging. You will work in a constantly evolving environment to protect, refine and grow the Axios brand.

Responsibilities

• Design a variety of assets (both digital and in print), making sure they are consistently on brand.
• Ideate, iterate and refine new brands and visual identity systems that live within the larger Axios brand.
• Design within existing brand systems, evolving and refining them when necessary.
• Think of the Axios brand holistically, identifying and flagging when something feels off.
• Update and contribute to our brand guidelines.
• Self-manage your projects, navigating ambiguity, communicating with stakeholders, respecting deadlines.
• Collaborate with other team members and on occasion provide feedback and guidance to more junior team members.
• Update information on landing pages using Webflow.

Requirements

• Experience: 3+ years design experience at an agency or in-house.
• Portfolio: A strong portfolio showing brand design work (both applying existing branding guidelines) and an understanding of the design craft, including typography, color, layout, etc.
• Skills:
  • Comfortable designing for print, web, experiential environments and on-stage live graphics.
  • Ability to design and deliver projects following creative direction and brand guidelines.
  • Capable of working on all stages of design, from ideation to execution of finalized assets.
  • Ability to execute on a creative direction and come up with new ideas or concepts.
  • Designs with a clear sense of scalability and the ability to fit within a system.
  • Ability to present work to stakeholders, take feedback graciously and defend ideas when needed.
• Work Style:
  • Well-organized and always communicative (essential for a remote team).
  • Shows initiative and flexibility to help the team work smarter and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Designs to the highest standard, both in concept and execution.

Company Information

• Company: Axios
• Industry: News Media
• Culture: Remote, fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative