Visual Designer

StudyBlue is looking for a naturally gifted, highly motivated professional to join our outstanding design team.

About Us

StudyBlue is a well-funded, fast-growing, and exciting educational startup. We’re the leading crowdsourced learning service built to help students succeed in school and beyond. Used by millions of students to learn faster, stress less, study anywhere and get better grades. We work hard, but we treat our hard workers very well. We offer the unique opportunity to have fun and work on amazing projects while reshaping the world of education.

We are passionate about design—in all its forms—we put the highest value on our ability to create experiences that continually delight and engage our users. We work tirelessly to solicit feedback from the real people using our products and incorporate those findings into the final release. We embrace best practices but continually aspire to create solutions that take us beyond the obvious.

You

A talented, hard-working human being who is hungry to do big things. Someone who knows what it’s like to work hard, but also wants to have a life. You define yourself as a growth driven marketing designer. Your attention to detail and aesthetic sensibilities are keen, and you are excited to use them to develop consistent, seamless, cross-platform experiences for millions of students worldwide You have masterful design skills that you can apply to a range mediums. You have years of experience creating great consumers oriented UI’s. You excel at pushing the proverbial envelope while developing new features.

The Job

As a Visual Designer for our signup and marketing teams, you’ll work closely with marketing, business development and product teams to ensure StudyBlue’s designs embody our brand identity and business goal requirements. You’ll bring our brand to life through engaging visual storytelling and you will work closely with marketing, product, and brand teams to continually tweak, experiment, and obsess over performance-driven creative solutions.

Responsibilities

Work directly with marketing and design to craft powerful web and mobile touchpoints that communicate StudyBlue’s value to students and lifelong learners.
Work with product and marketing teams to design marketing collateral to support launches and updates of products and features
Design and maintain experiences across our home and SEO pages that drive customer signups
Work on all company visual design projects including in-app graphics, iconography, marketing communications, and brand

Skills and Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in fine arts, graphic arts, human factors or equivalent experience.
3+ years of professional experience designing consumer-friendly experiences.
HTML/CSS and responsive design knowledge.
Ability to work closely with marketing, product and the rest of the team to find elegant but practical solutions to design challenges that create amazing experiences for our customers.
Portfolio that clearly expresses your ability to create successful design solutions.
Passion for improving education and helping students learn.

What We Can Offer You