What are the responsibilities and job description for the Visual Designer position at Octane?
Octane is a Fintech company whose mission is to connect people with their passions. The transaction process for large purchases such as powersports, RVs, boats, and home improvements is slow and frustrating, but Octane is changing that through automated underwriting, innovative credit products, and financing through our in-house lender Roadrunner Financial. Octane reaches millions of enthusiasts through editorial brands like Cycle World and Cycle Volta and helps consumers buy their favorite products with instant, frictionless financing on Octane.co. Octane is revolutionizing lending in under-served verticals that account for tens of billions of dollars in annual transactions.
Octane is gaining traction quickly with customers, as evidenced by growth in originations through our platform of more than 2X year-over-year. Octane works with more than 3,500 merchants in the USA and offers promotional financing with low rates for 40 OEM brands.
Because we’re the platform and the lender, we have both high growth and positive unit economics - rare for a fintech. We have raised more than $139M in venture capital from leading investors such as IA Ventures, Valar Ventures, and Contour Venture Partners, and our lending securities are rated AA by S&P.
The Consumer engineering team at Octane is responsible for building and scaling Octane's rapidly growing Consumer-facing application. Through our direct-to-consumer platform, we provide customers the means to purchase the powersport vehicles of their dreams.
As the Visual Designer, you will be a contributing member of the team at multiple levels. We want to elevate the Octane brand and improve our visual footprint and consistency across the experience, for both Consumers and B2B users. You will be the shepherd of our visual identity and value props: transparency, speed and ease of use. We’re looking for someone who can partner with our Web and Marketing teams and create engaging, dynamic web experiences. You will bring creative, conceptual, and technical graphic design skills to work in harmony with our talented team of engineers, product designers, and content strategists to make our products better.
Responsibilities:
- Own and execute the Octane Consumer and Dealer brands through our visual systems and products
- Support and shepherd our Editorial brand touchpoints - primarily Cycle World and UTV Driver
- Analyze existing materials/brand touchpoints and offer incremental improvements ● Work with our Product Design Leads on consistent branding across product and marketing
- Work alongside engineers, product and marketing team members to enable and empower the team to build effectively
- Stay up to date with our value props and communication touchpoints for Consumers, Dealers, Partners etc
- Developing comps and designs to support Marketing, Biz Dev and Executive needs ● Collaborate with and mentor additional designers
- Present options! One idea rarely is the answer
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and 3 years of experience in a Visual Design or applicable position ● Excellent verbal and written communication
- The ability to translate high-level requirements into tangible, relevant designs ● A desire to share feedback and ask questions
- Experience with this software:
○ Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD
○ Adobe CC Suite
○ Google & Microsoft Suites
○ You know how to approach responsive/mobile optimization
Benefits
- Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Up to 5 weeks PTO (self-managed)
- Generous Parental Leave
- Retirement Plan (401k) with Company contribution
- Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year
- Powersports Safety Benefit: reimbursement of up to $500/year for the purchase of any powersports safety equipment
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Short Term / Long Term Disability & Life insurance
- Team Activities (remotely)
- Monthly company gift
Octane Lending is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.
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