Visual Designer

We’re LendingHome. We’re on a mission to revolutionize the world of mortgages and put the power, and the keys, where they belong—in your hands.

The Team

We are excited to be in the process of designing our new in-house Design Org. At the core of this careful, thoughtful process is finding extraordinarily talented individuals who desire to work in an environment where we all share the belief that ‘Design is how it works’*. At LendingHome we are building the future; a key aspect of our growth is building inherent value in our products through design. The Design Org is responsible for all Visual, User Experience, and Product Design at LendingHome. Our partnerships include deep collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Our audience includes consumers as well as internal professional users.

Steve Jobs, 2003 New York Times article “The Guts of a New Machine.” ( http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/magazine/30IPOD.html?ex=1386133200&en=750c9021e58923d5&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND )

The Role

As a valuable member of the Design Org your role will be to produce high-quality deliverables and support design as a core practice in our product and marketing lifecycle. Your visual design skills will be critical in delivering our message to millions of engaged consumers as we build a world-class consumer brand. You will work closely with UX Designers and Engineers to implement and evolve a modular design pattern library to ensure user interface continuity across all of our consumer touch points. You will partner closely with Marketing to design and produce posters, brochures, infographics, white papers, and other collateral. Your will be creating illustrations, mockups, responsive web design, style guides, brand treatments, and print collateral. You will represent the Design Org in a supporting role during internal presentations and cross-departmental initiatives.

The perfect candidate will be a natural artist with deep experience in the digital consumer space, skilled at presenting their design perspective, open to feedback or constraints, and accepting of compromise when necessary.

Responsibilities

Contribute to Visual Design efforts on multiple concurrent projects
Collaborate with UX Designers and Engineers to develop a modular design pattern library ensuring user interface continuity across all of our consumer touch points.
Lead the design on all content and production of all marketing materials, including: infographics, emails, posters, handouts, postcards, promotions, newsletters, direct response and other collateral.
Work closely with Marketing to design, implement, and ship deliverables for both Content Marketing and Product Marketing to align with our campaigns and content schedules
Create visual designs with strong typography and iconography, as well as strong and unique branding
Construct clean and organized creative deliverables that adhere to style guidelines
Collaborate with interaction designers and others to create compelling and successful products
Define, share and deliver work to ensure project excellence
Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle, including product ideation and definition, user research, identifying deliverables, estimating effort, design, UAT, post-launch evaluation, and stakeholder communication.
Present work and rationale to stakeholders.
Create and maintain documentation and deliverables for multiple stakeholders: partners, visual design and engineers
Design applications and product experiences either from concept or as an iteration on existing platforms
Individual contributions will include illustration, mockups, responsive web design, style guides, brand treatments, and print collateral
Assist or lead on research initiatives
Articulate decisions with research data, design principles or other objective information
Establish a strong design culture by collaborating with members of multidisciplinary teams and advocating for users and user-centered design practices.
Keep abreast of digital trends and capabilities and ensure junior members of the team are trained up on newest developments
Conceptualize and articulate strong, user-centered and delightful interactions

Requirements

2 + years of experience.
Degree in Visual Arts, Marketing, Communication or other related discipline
Strong portfolio with engaging diverse designs demonstrating a passion for design
Understanding of design research, user experience design processes and methodology, its value and how to integrate into work.
Expertise in tools common to modern Visual and UX Design work: Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Axure/Invision/Balsamiq, Omnigraffle, etc.
An understanding of interactivity and the Web and the fundamentals of information architecture, hierarchy, and layout
You listen well and have excellent speaking and writing skills.
You can observe, analyze, question, and conceptualize.
You can articulate your decision and design process
You are respectful when challenging assumptions and give and receive feedback with equal grace.
You are reliable. You estimate work, commit and deliver on deadlines and are vocal when risk arises.
You have a design aesthetic. Your documents are simple, informative and filled with value.
Curiosity that drives you to look at the world as a solution instead of just existing patterns and mental models.
Some experience or exposure to Engineering, especially client-side, a plus but not required

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$1 Billion in Mortgage Originations ( http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/08/lendinghome-exceeds-1b-in-mortgage-loan-originations/ )

We were founded in 2013 with one big, exciting goal: to revolutionize the world of mortgages. By 2016, our small, dynamic team had originated over $1 billion in loans. Come join us on our mission to fill the path to homeownership with confidence, clarity, and candor. We’ve combined an all-star team with groundbreaking technology, and we’re guided in everything we do by our seven pillars of culture; Great people are key. Always be improving. Innovation at our core. Simple and scalable. Relentless Execution. Total team effort. Find a way to win.

We invest in your future