UX/UI Designer

Teal Media is a full-service creative and design agency with a conscience. We believe purposeful design can transform organizations, inspire action, and enable progress. Our clients and nonprofit partners commit their lives to creating positive social change. We pour every ounce of our passion and skill into their success, because we, too, want the world to be a better place. We offer a variety of strategic, creative, and technical services, including brand strategy, web design and development, and creative support.

We are a woman-owned and woman-led firm with a diverse staff. At Teal Media, we value our people above all else and choose to work with partners and clients who share those beliefs.

The designer executes on deliverables set forth by senior Creative team members and clients, bringing their unique and fresh perspectives to projects. They collaborate closely with project team members in order to have a confident approach to their designs. Through participation in learning sessions in order to create intentional designs, they strategically implement feedback, and deliver work on time and on budget while juggling multiple priorities.

This role is under the Creative team. The Designer will report to the Art Director.

Capacities describe the knowledge, skills, and abilities that we ask all members of our organization to demonstrate in their respective roles. They comprise three main categories:  organizational capacities expected of all members, management capacities expected of each member in a management position, and departmental capacities expected of members in their specific positions.  In addition, successfully performing your role within your specific team requires certain departmental capacities illustrated through the following skills and competencies:

Departmental capacities:

• Collaborative Team Orientation: You are collaborative and ready to help other people, even if it's not in your field of expertise. You share resources, inspiration, and ideas. You are considerate of people's time and help create systems that are flexible, ensure better outcomes, and support everyone to do their best possible work together. You are willing to jump into casual and lively coworking with clients and colleagues when needed. You are ready to help and support your colleagues and reach out for help when you need it. You value diverse perspectives and help bring a wide range of perspectives, talents, and skills to the table. You recognize that a team with varied backgrounds contributes to the strength of our creativity.
• Curiosity and Continuous Learning: You display curiosity and eagerness through research and implementation to find new ways to make our designs interesting. You take responsibility for your own growth and development by constantly seeking to improve. You share what you know with your colleagues and are honest about what you don't know.
• Detail Orientation: You take a thorough approach and display concern for all aspects involved in the design, no matter how small, to infuse delight and excitement into the user experience. You create high-quality work with subtle touches that make a design unique, interesting, and ownable to the client. You know how to use details, such as animation, to gently guide a user, providing cues that help people explore and quickly access the information they need. You understand how the details add up to the whole design, and how to find and accentuate our clients' differentiators to produce a unique and interesting design that's tailored to each client's needs.
• Purposeful Design: You seek to understand our clients, their work, and how they do that work. You are creative and thoughtful in the solutions you design because you care about their audiences and users. You understand the "why" behind our projects and integrate it into effective designs that help our clients create positive social change. You design beautiful and useful solutions for our clients and partners, knowing when to push design because you understand the purpose behind it. You can create a fresh, modern, and innovative take on a client's brand, while still being practical, unpretentious, and acceptable to stakeholders who will need to buy into the design.
  

Project work and client engagement (80%):

• Serve as the primary executor of design deliverables on one-off projects and retainers as set forth by senior creative team members
• Consistently prepare quality presentations to clients based on a framework to help organizations understand how we meet audience goals, business objectives, and maintenance of what is being produced
• Implement feedback with an eye for detail and strategic application per briefs
• Conduct quality assurance, testing, and proofing on project deliverables in preparation for presentation/deliverables 
• Train & educate clients confidently navigating interactions whether through email or “in-person” guiding them through deliverables and expected steps in the process so they can make informed decisions 
• Read and absorb background materials and relevant client communications to thoughtfully participate in learning sessions, workshops, and brainstorming sessions
• Act as support or production designer within random one-off requests outside of set client projects to create additional concepts, collateral, and/or using best-practice knowledge to build on existing deliverables 

Inter-departmental collaboration and project management (10%):

• Bring your unique and fresh perspective to projects and actively participate in team brainstorms and calls for inspiration
• Review design briefs and deliverables with Art Directors with an ownership mindset, ensuring a thorough and complete understanding of assigned projects and tasks so that you enhance the design process & vision 
• Set meetings and review with a focus to ask questions and seek guidance necessary for a thoughtful pacing of project work (i.e. not sending deep questions/work the day before for review) 
• Juggle multiple priorities knowing when and how to move between projects to meet various deadlines 
• Communicate and collaborate informally and formally with internal and external project team members to create innovative solutions using their expertise and knowledge to further refine concepts

Facilitate learning and process development (10%):

• Maintain, use, and implement process & methodology set forth by creative team members that help gain efficiencies within projects (Figma, Brand, etc.)
• Provide feedback to Art Directors when process & methodology is inefficient, unclear, or cause roadblocks for project teams & clients
• Actively create case studies and marketing materials and support Teal's business development by producing showcases of our work

In addition, these specialized design roles require:

UX/UI:

• Solid foundational knowledge and understanding of UX best practices and design principles (content strategy, taxonomy, etc.)
• Produce design deliverables (sitemaps, wireframes, full-fidelity visual comps, UI component libraries, custom graphics (static and animated), etc.) as specified by the project
• Assist with discovery and client/user research on select projects
• Document design decisions and formulate development specifications

Brand:

• Solid understanding of the process of how to develop a brand's visual identity through expanding on foundational brand elements via a brand's key differentiators

At Teal, we have each other's backs. This means occasionally taking on responsibilities, tasks, and special projects that are not a core part of your job description. No one is above any task. We are all committed to helping each other to succeed as a whole. In the words of Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, “We all do better when we all do better.”

Teal Media is committed to equity and transparency when it comes to salary and the growth of our people. This role is open to both level 2T and 3T in our progression framework and is determined by the candidate's unique background and experience.

Level: 3T

• Official Title: Senior UX/UI Designer
• Department: Creative
• Salary Range: $85,000-$110,000

Level: 2T

• Official Title: UX/UI Designer
• Department: Development
• Salary Range: $60,000-$90,000

Make a positive impact on mission-driven organizations and nonprofits while working in a fun, collaborative, and flexible environment. We're a nimble, close-knit group that values teamwork and individual contribution. All our positions are remote (in the US), but we work to maintain a fun and engaging company culture.

• Work from home (or at the beach!)
• Professional Development Coaching
• Yearly Continuing Education Stipend
• Eligibility for bi-annual bonuses
• Flexible Time Off and Unlimited Sick Leave
• Compassionate Leave
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Company 401(k) with match
• Flexible working hours
• Flex Fridays - a day dedicated to self-directed work. Spend time working on the things you want - whether it be honing in on your craft or taking off a few hours early for your mental wellness!

If your experience doesn't exactly match the qualifications listed but you believe you would shine in this role, we want to hear from you! Please apply and tell us why you're the right person for the job.

Black & Indigenous people of color, immigrants, women and femmes, LGBTQI+ individuals, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, and formerly incarcerated or systems-impacted people are highly encouraged to apply.

Teal Media is an equal-opportunity employer that values a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. Teal Media encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, and veteran status.

Teal Media does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, country of origin, citizenship, ancestry, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, political affiliation, exercising one's right to family care and medical leave, medical condition, including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions, or any other category protected by local, state, or federal laws. We are not offering US visa sponsorship at this time.

Teal Media will only ever contact you directly from a tealmedia.com address and via our applicant system hosted by Breezy HR. If you receive a recruitment email from any other source, it's a scam and should be ignored.

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