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Job Description
We have an immediate opening for a mid-level designer to join our studio full-time.
As a designer focused on branding, you will work directly alongside the senior creative team, project managers, and creative directors, to help develop and deliver creative solutions for a wide range of clients and brands. Applicants should have the ability to craft logos and design systems, brand guidelines, website & UI design systems. (Print and packaging experience is a bonus).
This is a fulltime role, working 4 days a week from our SF studio, and 1 day remote.
Responsibilities:
— Helping lead design on projects, from conception to completion, through every stage of the process.
— Pursuing and maintaining an exceptional level of craft with the highest design standards and attention to detail across typographic design, layout, print and digital projects.
— Establish visual tonality through photo, illustration, and motion art direction.
— Codify design systems into comprehensive guidelines and finalize template and asset files for final delivery.
— Presenting work thoughtfully and confidently with clients.
— Collaborating with external creative and production partners.
Ideal Qualities:
— Willing to pitch in and work on anything.
— Highly flexible and adaptable to challenges.
— Can balance the micro and the macro.
— Multi-disciplined.
— Driven and ambitious, always learning.
— Open to experimentation, new viewpoints, and ways of working.
— Collaborative and a team player.
— Good time management and organization.
— Comfortable being yourself. (We don't try to 'shape' designers to 'fit' our studio).
Manual is a studio that values a healthy work/life balance. We strive to build a happy and thriving studio culture where friendships are formed. No late nights & weekends. No competitiveness. No burnout.
We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and prioritize projects that positively affect people and the planet.