Visual Communication Designer, Climate Founders - IDEO (Remote or Hybrid)

IDEO’s Climate Venturing team is in search of a visual communication designer who will bring our voices to life and build prototypes, brands, and visual languages alongside our clients and collaborators: founders, startups, and coalitions of organizations.  The ideal candidate is a maker at heart, has a strong foundation in graphic design and experience in brand, user interaction, digital products, and motion design.

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You’ll have the opportunity to work on a diverse portfolio of projects that involve data, experience, interaction, digital product, and service design. In addition, your work will help develop a visual and digital identity for Climate Venturing at IDEO, helping to convey a consistent brand across all of our activities, both to the outside world as well as internally to IDEO. This role will require working across multiple projects in a startup environment. 

Our portfolio of work centers on Climate Change and founders working in this area, so experience in climate challenges and solutions is a plus, and passion for this area is a must.

Once here, you will:

We recognize the following sections contain a fair amount of information to consume. We want to lead with as much information as we have available on this position knowing that this role holds key accountability within the organization. Below we’ve expanded upon several core accountabilities of the role.  

Brand Design

• Create visual & tone branding for the Climate Venturing team

• Develop a coherent design language for the team, including visual style, color palette, typography standards, etc.

• Capture and share the team’s brand design via tools that enable self-service usage by team members (so you don’t become the bottleneck!)

• Design brands and visual systems for programs & projects within the Climate Venturing team, working alongside founders, corporations, and investors in our network to help them make progress.

Graphics + Illustration 

• Create graphics that set the visual tone across our projects and publications, including social media, long-form writing, reports, and events

• Develop illustrations to help visualize data or convey complex systems in an approachable manner

Presentations

• Develop presentation deck templates for team members to use in a self-service manner

  • BD decks for our offers and capabilities

  • Internal communication deck for what we do share within IDEO.

• Design visuals for program and project presentations, such as final reports and events

Front End Web Design

• Web sites for projects & project concepts

  • Ideally using HTML / CSS or live prototypes such as glitch.me and CMSs such as forestry

• Design & prototyping of user interface concepts

• Prototypes in Figma with click-through

• Simple interactions and animations

  • Or the ability to work with someone who can prototype these

Side projects

• Exploratory or fun designs that take bad puns and weird jokes or ideas to the next level

What does IDEO offer you?

IDEO is a place unlike any other. It’s a place where you can solve diverse, complex challenges for our clients or the organization, alongside thoughtful, intelligent individuals who lead with curiosity, empathy, and optimism. We work hard, but we also intentionally craft moments that allow our community to pause, create, and connect. We encourage our community to bring their whole selves to work, respect the need for work-life balance, and allow for autonomy in the design process and your career.

Some previous projects to check out:

• Rise Science: Partnered with a sleep analytics start-up to develop a comprehensive sleep training system for professional athletes and scale the business.

• Swell: Collaborated on a new venture and digital product aimed at helping consumers invest in portfolios of stocks that align with their values.

• Ascensia: Created and launched a comprehensive diabetes management system that included a glucose meter and app.
  
  You can review more of IDEO’s work here.

Relevant experience and mindset:

We are particularly interested in candidates that can demonstrate deep fluency in one or more of the following focus areas:

• 3-5 years of interactive and graphic design experience across a variety of applications and media. Bonus if you have worked in a startup.

• Ability to tackle a diverse and complex set of design challenges and recognize patterns to help develop creative and strategic solutions

• Experience establishing a brand identity, from understanding strategy to creative interpretation and execution; designing visual identities, defining brand architectures, and building clear and useful guidelines for implementation.

• Strong information and visualization design skills including typography and layout, and a passion for visual design across a breadth of media

• Passion for learning and experimenting with new methods to deliver design solutions

• A tool-building mindset that helps enable others to do their own work within your visual guardrails

• Experience with a variety of graphic design and interactive tools including Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, etc.

Role details:

• Full-time position or Contract to Hire

• Located in SF, Boston, or remote

• This role will likely include travel domestically, and possibly internationally in the future depending on how the program grows over time.