Visual+Communications Designer

Daylight Design San Francisco is looking for a Visual + Communications Designer (exact title dependent on experience). We are looking for individuals who have fluidity with the human-centered design process, strong conceptual and creative thinking skills, and excellent quality of visual craft execution. Because Daylight is a small studio, we prioritize building our team with people who are experts in one discipline, and also have the desire to explore, dabble, fail, and grow in others.

The role is a mix of design for interaction (UI/UX, design systems) and design for communication (brand, print, and visual storytelling). Activities may include:

• Craft interfaces for consumer (for profit and non-profit clients) and business  applications
• Create design systems – typography, color, icons, grid systems, etc.
• Tell engaging stories of people, projects and brands through compelling graphics, illustrations, infographics
• Collaborate and work seamlessly with a multidisciplinary team of designers, researchers, strategists and project managers to align on objectives and goals and iteratively develop the best solutions
• Work on a variety of projects – from broad, explorative prompts to pixel perfect designs for shipping
• Create concepts that raise the bar in terms of quality 
• Participate in user research – go out in the field to build empathy with real users and to document research learnings for analysis
• Collaborate internationally with our offices in Munich and Seoul and perhaps even travel to these locations if/when project demands
• Collaborate directly with clients
• Prepare presentations and present work back to clients

You’ll get to work on projects like:

• Ebenbuild – Increasing survival rates of patients with acute respiratory distress by creating a digital lung “twin”
• Santa Clara County Housing Authority – Reducing the burden for public housing tenants through a digital solution‍
• Melon – ​​Transforming Korea's top music streaming service into a holistic music experience

• Great visual intuition and a high level of visual/graphic/communication design craft
• A degree in graphic design, visual design or interaction design
• 3+ years of professional design experience, with 2+ years in visual or communication design
• Solid experience in design thinking (human-centered design) methodology
• Fluency in collaborative design and prototyping software (e.g. Figma, Sketch, InVision, etc.)
• Ability to clearly communicate concepts through wireframes, flows, mockups, and prototypes
• Experience with user research and synthesis
• Experience in shipping products 
• Willingness to push beyond the obvious solution to find the best one
• Ability to communicate with colleagues and clients to solve problems
• The ability to apply skills broadly and an eagerness to learn from a breadth of design talents, experiences and backgrounds.
• Fluent English skills 
• Well-developed content design/content strategy skills are a significant bonus

• Work on a wide range of meaningful design projects
• Guidance and feedback from senior designers and partners
• Potential for social-impact focused work
• Collaboration with a diverse, global creative team

We’re looking for someone who lives in (or is willing to relocate to) the San Francisco Bay Area. Team members can work remotely up to 50% of the time.

Daylight Design is a global design and innovation firm committed to positive social and commercial impact. We combine fluency in the human-centered design process with deep skills in design execution. We are intentionally small, with ~30 individuals across our three studios in San Francisco, Seoul and Munich. Our size allows us to be selective about the work we take on; we only engage in projects that are interesting and net-positive for the world. Daylight is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and we strongly encourage candidates from backgrounds that are underrepresented in design to apply.