Designer

Brand at Circle:

The brand team at Circle was established in 2016. Over the years, we’ve defined and evolved Circle’s visual language, launched thousands of iterations of circle.com, created identities such as Centre, USDC, Circle Invest, Circle Pay (our legacy consumer app) and launched the new Circle brand in Spring 2020. Today, the team is part of Circle’s marketing organization, supporting peers across demand generation, product marketing and content. We operate as the in-house creative powerhouse, responsible for upholding and developing visual design and voice through powerful brand expressions across paid campaigns, web marketing, events, social media, investor relations, employer brand, and communications, as well as design support for brands like Centre and SeedInvest, while guiding execution with agencies and across the entire company.

As designer you will play a key role in producing creative deliverables for the Circle brand and marketing campaigns. A stand-out candidate will be highly creative, resourceful, meticulous, and is appreciative of and eager to apply feedback. You’ll be a member of the broader marketing organization, reporting to the Associate Creative Director.

What you'll work on:

• Preparing images to support web marketing, social media and blog posts.
• Updating and organizing design assets and overall design ops process.
• Producing a variety of marketing deliverables including pdfs, emails, ads and more.
• Assisting with collateral, quality assurance, copyediting and quality assurance.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders on brand systems and providing design ideas.

You will aspire to our four core values:

• Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities.
• Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail.  
• Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals. 
• High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards.  You reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance.

What you’ll bring to Circle:

• A visual eye to understand the elements that make up a brand system and replicate those elements into additional deliverables.
• Understanding of layouts, typography, composition, color, and other graphic design fundamentals.
• Ability to thrive in an extremely fast-paced, highly collaborative environment filled with brilliant people pushing each other to new heights.
• Innate curiosity about the intersection of technology and finance, and how they can drive society forward

We’re looking for strong, impactful work experience, which typically includes:

• Graphic Design or Digital Arts major preferred.
• 2 years of experience in-house or agency preferred.
• Experience with Sketch and Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator knowledge.
• Basic knowledge of technology, finance, software or B2B marketing.
• Proficiency in Google Suite, Slack and Apple MacOS preferred. 

You are the right person if you:

• Can effectively prioritize your own tasks and meet deadlines.
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit and strong desire to work and learn in a start-up environment.