Job Opening for Marketing Graphic Designer in Sofar Ocean (San Francisco, CA)

Sofar is on a mission to connect the world’s oceans. We design, build, and deploy the largest privately owned network of marine weather sensors to power the world’s best marine weather forecasts. Our data helps our customers to increase efficiency and reduce emissions, delivering tools to governments and other stakeholders to understand impacts of climate change on extreme weather and ocean health. We live on Planet Ocean, and our goal is to create the ocean intelligence needed to ensure a sustainable future.
The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a driven marketing designer to join the marketing team at Sofar. You will own all design initiatives including strategy and execution. This role will be instrumental in elevating Sofar’s visual brand representation in the industry. You will excel in an “all hands on deck” environment and thrive in a startup culture. As a founding member of Sofar’s marketing team, this is a great opportunity to grow with a fast-growing startup. You will report to the Head of Marketing and work a hybrid schedule from our office in San Francisco.

What you will do:

Work closely with fellow marketing team members, sales, product, and talent teams to create visual assets for internal and external consumption (marketing collateral, hiring materials, etc.)
Responsible for conceptualizing, designing and implementing creative projects on time and within budget
Ensure brand evolution and establishment of core visual identity collaborating with the broader team
Be the visual brand expert and ensure all external representation of the company is on brand and high quality
Create design templates for marketing collateral and manage all ongoing design needs – advertising, copy, website graphics, and more
Manage all photo and video projects – creative concepts, execution, post production
Conduct creative brainstorming sessions as needed for special projects
Create assets—videos, infographics, animations, visuals for use across various marketing channels
Ensure the website and collateral are always up to date with the latest design elements
Maintain a repository of brand assets for use in internal and external communications

We’re excited about you because you:

Are a designer who’s working with marketing teams
Have 2-4 years of core design experience
Are an expert with design tools like Figma, Illustrator, etc
Have professional written and verbal communication skills
Have a desire to innovate and stay on top of new trends in social media
Have the ability to work efficiently with attention to detail across multiple work-streams
Are experienced or have an interest in creating inclusive, culturally aware marketing campaigns
Plus: have a keen interest in science, especially climate and ocean science

Employee Conduct

It is the responsibility of every employee to contribute to a positive work environment through cooperative and professional interactions with co-workers, customers, and vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.