Production Designer

  • Full-time

Company Description

We started with a simple idea—that everyone should be able to accept credit cards—and we’ve been rethinking buying and selling ever since.

For sellers, we’re creating one cohesive service to run your entire business, from a register in your pocket to analytics on your laptop. For buyers, we’re making it faster to order from the businesses you love and more fun to pay your friends back.

Buying and selling sound like simple things—and they should be. Somewhere along the way, they got complicated. We’re working hard to make commerce easy for everyone.

Job Description

As a production designer, you apply your creativity, your eye, and your technical skills to the challenge of implementing design across a variety of Square’s digital marketing channels. It’s our team’s role to pick up and parse others’ files, and to refine (or rebuild) them to the specifications. We work to build and name files that communicate to the next person down the line. We file our work as we go. You’ll collaborate with teammates across disciplines to clarify requirements, goals, expectations, and timelines. You’ll design new work within Square’s visual language.

You will:

  • Prepare and deliver image assets for web, email, paid marketing, blog, social, and other digital communication channels.

  • Use device screenshots, simulators, and software tools (Photoshop, Sketch) to build screen imagery to market Square’s software products, at a variety of resolutions and across multiple locales and languages.

  • Adapt imagery across responsive breakpoints and international locales.

  • Work within and advocate for the production constraints of each channel. Identify new constraints we hadn’t understood before.

  • Partner with copywriters to develop and design new layouts and imagery within established design systems. Present designs both virtually and in person.

  • Juggle a mix of large and small projects, often with overlapping priority and urgency.

  • Build and maintain working files inside a collaborative file structure.

  • Continually adopt new tools and practices as the work evolves.

  • Share (and document) your knowledge and perspective with your peers.

  • Manage work tasks using JIRA, Slack, Google Docs.

  • Ship quickly. Find new efficiencies. Keep an eye on the small stuff. Make it work.

Qualifications

You have:

  • Solid working experience building, editing and optimizing pixel and vector graphics (Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch).

  • 2 to 3 years work experience in a creative role/environment

  • An eagerness to try (and adopt) new applications and working methods.

  • A dedication to delivering great work.

  • An ability to communicate clearly with peers and across disciplines.


Even better:

  • Experience in project management, traffic, or asset management

  • Familiarity with software source control (Git, Bitbucket/Stash)

  • HTML, CSS, SVG, Markdown

  • Experience using command-line tools

  • Print experience (e.g. InDesign)

  • Animation (e.g. AfterEffects, Adobe Animate, Flash)

Additional Information

At Square, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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