Brand & Creative Designer Job at HomeThrive Inc in Northbrook

Description:

Company Overview

Homethrive was born from personal experience. Our founders grappled with the overwhelming challenges of caregiving for family members while balancing their work lives. The journey was fraught with confusion, a myriad of unanswered questions, and countless hours delving into endless online searches. After taking numerous days off and spending extended hours on the phone, the answers remained elusive. They recognized the need for a streamlined, more efficient solution. Enter Homethrive. Our mission is to revolutionize family caregiving by delivering superior outcomes for caregivers, their loved ones, and health plans alike. At the heart of our service is the Homethrive personal caregiving coach and assistant — an all-in-one interactive tool that offers the expertise, recommendations, and support our members deserve.

Our Mission

At Homethrive, we are revolutionizing family caregiving to achieve better outcomes for caregivers, their loved ones, and their employers. Our innovative platform offers a personal caregiving coach and assistant that provides comprehensive knowledge, tailored recommendations, and ongoing support, all within a single interactive tool.

Leadership and Growth

Our leadership team comprises seasoned industry veterans with a proven track record of building multi-billion dollar enterprises. Backed by prominent healthcare venture capital funds, Homethrive is well-positioned for significant growth. As we continue to expand, we are seeking talented individuals to join our world-class team and contribute to our mission of transforming family caregiving.

Location

Homethrive is a remote-first culture, with headquarters in Chicago, IL.

Job Overview

We are looking for a Brand & Creative Designer who is passionate about creating intuitive and engaging brand applications that ultimately improve the lives of caregivers and their families.

As a key member of our growing Brand & Creative Design Team here at Homethrive, you’ll be working closely with your partners in our Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Product Design teams. You will use your creativity and skills to develop and implement our evolving brand across a broad range of channels and applications.

This is an ideal opportunity for a designer who's looking to:

• Help drive the direction of Homethrive’s brand and build out the design system
• See designs quickly translated from concept to real-world materials
• Rise to meet a broad range of design challenges
• Make a huge impact in a startup organization and in the day-to-day lives of caregivers and their families

Key Responsibilities

• Work on multiple creative projects simultaneously, collaborating with Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing partners, to develop compelling concepts across many channels
• Help develop and grow our brand to ensure consistency across everything we do
• Design compelling content for our website, social media, digital marketing campaigns, emails, slides decks, infographics, videos, packaging, sales support, promotional materials and more
• Support our smaller internal media projects with illustration, motion graphics, video editing, photography and more
• Communicate your design decisions clearly and effectively to the team
• Critically analyze the success of your solutions and iterate quickly on new ideas

Requirements:

Qualifications

• A desire to use your skills to have a widespread impact on people. We are a mission-first company.
• A growth mindset. You strive to develop your skills through hard work, learning, and experimentation. Each failure is an opportunity to learn from.
• A collaborative spirit. You understand your greatest resources are your teammates and cross-functional partners.
• A human-centered approach. You determine a path forward and measure your success by your impact on humans.
• 2-4 years experience in a Brand/Graphic/Communication design role, with experience working within a design system and applying a company’s brand and design across a suite of surfaces
• A strong visual aesthetic, with a deep understanding of color, composition, and typography
• Expertise in Figma, Adobe CC, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, and Asana
• Strong experience working across print mediums, in addition to digital. The team regularly creates printed deliverables of varying complexity and length.
• Willingness to take initiative, run with projects, and speak up when support or guidance is needed.
• Outstanding organizational, time management, and prioritization skills; can be productive under limited direction and sometimes ambiguous challenges.
• We take project management and file storage/structure/sharing seriously and expect you to lean in and help us evolve and strengthen our structure and process.
• Self-motivated and successful in fast-paced environments. You take ownership of your projects, but welcome feedback and strive to effectively communicate design decisions.
• Humility and a positive attitude is a must. We welcome healthy discussion and debate, but we make sure to put ideas ahead of egos and believe great things come from collaboration.

Nice to Haves

• Experience working in a startup environment is a big plus
• Experience working within or creating a design system
• Video editing and motion graphics experience

When Applying

With your resume, please send a link to your portfolio which showcases your experience designing for and applying a company’s brand across multiple projects. If not already included in your portfolio, please also send details about the problem you were solving for, your design process, any challenges you faced, and outcomes of the project.

Please be aware

Homethrive advises all potential candidates to be cautious of scammers posing as recruiters and fake job offers; legitimate opportunities will always be listed on our official website or communicated through verified company channels.

EEO

Homethrive is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Homethrive provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including sex stereotyping), national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy (which included pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), physical disability, mental disability, age, military status or status as a Vietnam-era or special disabled veteran, marital status, registered domestic partner status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer-related or HIV/AIDS-related), genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.