Boston, MA
At Circle, we're shaking up the global economy by making money simple. With us, you can send money like a text — instant, secure and free — whether your friend is across the table or across the ocean. How exactly are we doing this? Unlike existing systems that are closed and proprietary, we use open internet standards and protocols, including the blockchain (allowing us to offer this service for free). Our mission is to connect every person in the world by exchanging value across borders, between currencies and among friends.
Circle’s brand team is looking for a designer to work alongside our in-house creatives. You’ll translate strategic visions into concepts and ultimately, Circle brand experiences. Use your magic on everything from online campaigns to social media advertising, animations to field marketing events. This position sits in our brand new Boston HQ.
WHO WE ARE
We’re a tech startup that believes that sending money should be like sending anything else online — free, instant, secure and fun — among friends, across borders and between currencies.
WHO YOU ARE
Passionate
You’re a tech nut who is equally excited by the newest app as well as innovative branding for said app. You’re active in keeping up with design trends, in particular front end development and trends in startup brands. A go-getter, full of solutions and ideas, pleasant to be around for many hours a day and a bulldog for our brand.
Productive
You are driven to get things done. You recognize when projects need more or less of your energy, and use opportunities to work smarter, drive improvement activities, and organize, plan, and deliver high quality, thoughtful designs.
Strategic
You can strike a balance between brand and acquisition/engagement/retention messaging. You think about the individual design requirements and implementation, but can also easily step back to see the broader impact of the creative and its relationship to the strategic direction of the company.
Chops
Have a stand-out portfolio that displays what you're capable of. Adept at presenting your ideas with documentation and in-person.
What you'll work on
- Partnering with your writer, designer, developer, illustrator and product designer cohorts (in the office, remote and contractors)
- Sexy stuff like creative concepting and integrated campaigns that drive customer acquisition, engagement and retention
- Non-sexy stuff like basic production work, product mockups, website assets, banner ad design/resizing, asset localization, etc.
- Promotional landing pages, marketing emails, display ads, social advertising
- Google Slides presentations and data visualizations
- Contributing ideas in expanding the design system across all customer touchpoints including circle.com, Circle Pay, and the broader Circle brand
What you'll bring to Circle
- 3+ years design experience (consumer brands preferred)
- Strong information architecture, visual design, interaction design disciplines
- Priority juggling, deadline meeting and project management abilities
- Creative Suite expertise, obvs
- Eagle eyes and problem solving brain
- Online portfolio that excites us
- Circle Pay (our app — download it and use it)
What will impress us even more
- In-house, client-side experience
- GIF animation and After Effects knowledge a huge plus
- Knowing your way around HTML+ CSS email, responsive design and mobile optimization
- Advanced Google Slides skills
- Witty banter on Slack
Circle was founded in 2013 by internet entrepreneurs Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville and we're backed by $140 million from investors including Jim Breyer (Facebook), Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital (Baidu, Tencent), General Catalyst (AirBnB, Snapchat) and Accel Partners. Check us out — download Circle Pay for iOS and Android today.