Art Blocks has an opening for a Digital Designer. We are looking for candidates who are team-oriented and who treat each other with kindness and respect. This position is a remote position, and we’re looking for the best candidates to join our team regardless of location (though currently we are only able to hire candidates residing in the United States).

 

The Digital Designer will be responsible for implementing and extending the Art Blocks brand across our web presence, as well as creating related digital assets such as motion graphics and video. You’ll have multidisciplinary branding projects that will work across interactive, print, and environmental (exhibition space) applications. The ideal candidate thinks in terms of templated or modular extensible systems, can articulate their design decisions clearly, and iterate quickly.

 

Candidates should have a wide range of design experience managing a variety of projects with multiple stakeholders on tight timelines. Since we are a completely remote company, excellent communication skills are a top priority. You will work independently but also collaborate with designers, engineers, writers, artist liaisons, and community coordinators to ensure a cohesive brand expression at all touch points. This role reports to the Creative Director.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, prototype, and build user-focused art experiences on our website
• Design for a fully-responsive website experienceInterface with product designers to insure a seamless experience from website to product
• Design using existing web page templates and develop new web page templates
• Develop and maintain our brand guidelines as they relate to the visual design of the website
• Continuously update the website with new content 
• Develop visual systems for typography, color, layout, iconography
• Articulate your branding and design decisions to a variety of partners and show design process as neededIdeate visual concepts and refine work based on creative direction
• Collaborate with internal team members and external vendors

Base Requirements

• 5+ years experience with visual design, branding, or communication designA portfolio that demonstrates excellence in typography, web design, branding, and visual communication design
• Demonstrated design systems thinking
• Skill using both Figma and Webflow
• Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
• Motion design or video editing skills
•  Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently on multiple projects while adhering to project timelines and maintaining design excellence
• Organized, detail-oriented, precise
• Entrepreneurial, brings new ideas to the table and takes initiative to make them happen
• A desire to understand NFTs and the crypto world, and a drive to participate in a start-up culture

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with HTML/CSS
• Knowledge of the Web3/Crypto/NFT space
• Strong interest in generative or contemporary art
• Experience with Asana or similar project management software

Benefits

• Competitive salary, bonus, and equity
• Health/vision/dental insurance, STD, LTD, life insurance for the employee and dependents
• Competitive parental leave
• Unlimited PTO: take time when you need it, but we’ll require that you take at least 20 days of PTO per year (plus 9 company holidays)
• Flexible hours and a supportive remote work environment
• 2 company in-person team offsite meet-up weeks per year
• Company provided WFH setup (laptop, monitor, headphones, keyboard, etc.) to make sure you have the hardware and tools needed to do great work
• Participation in an organization that has facilitated over $50 million dollars in charitable giving

Art Blocks is a first-of-its-kind platform focused on genuinely programmable, on-demand generative content that is stored immutably on the Ethereum Blockchain. Our team is a group of passionate builders focused on creating the best ecosystem for on-chain generative content. We are moving rapidly to create the platform for all kinds of generative design projects. To learn more about what we are building, please visit artblocks.io/learn, follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/artblocks_io), or come hang out in our community Discord (discord.gg/artblocks).