Senior Visual Designer

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 375 million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

**Responsibilities**:

- Developed and executed brand concepts, designs, and layouts for various product collateral.
- Create visually stunning and engaging motion graphics and animations for brand videos, digital advertisements, and interactive media.
- Designed and produced 3D assets, including graphic and interactive visualisations for the product, environments, and animations, to enhance our brand and product.
- Produce high-quality illustrations that capture the brand's essence and resonate with our target audience.
- Collaborate closely with the product design teams to understand project requirements, objectives, and timelines, ensuring timely delivery of design solutions.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, design tools, and emerging technologies to continuously improve and innovate our brand design strategies.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, interaction design or a related field.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of professional experience as a brand or interactive designer.
- Strong portfolio showcasing expertise in brand design, motion design, 3D design, typography, illustration, and graphic design.
- Proficiency in industry-standard design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects), Figma, or similar tools.
- Solid understanding of design principles, colour theory, layout composition, and typography.
- Experience with 3D design software (e.g., Cinema 4D, Maya, Blender) and motion graphics software (e.g., Adobe After Effects) is highly desirable.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively articulate and defend design concepts to stakeholders.
- Strong attention to detail and a keen eye for aesthetics and visual consistency.

**About us**:

- We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
- We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
- We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone's voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard
- We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops, and enrichment opportunities
- You can contribute to our Engineering Blog

**Benefits**:

- Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit
- Professional development allowance
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan
- Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
- We offer free German courses at beginning, intermediate and advanced
- Various snacks, goodies and 2 free lunches weekly at the office

**_Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud_**
- SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization. With this foundation, we aim to build a social platform and global community for everyone to create, discover, and share sounds. We acknowledge the challenges in our industry and strive to develop an inclusive culture where individual contributions are valued. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status._
- At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group (groups focused on people of color, LGBTQIA+ folks, and women). You may also participate in inclusive workshops, contribute to our Cultural Moments series, vote on organizations for the SoundCloud Community fund's support, and more_