Senior Designer

HoneyBook is the leading client relationship platform for independent, service-based businesses. It powers billions of client interactions through online lead nurture, communication, project management, booking, and financial tools that enable independent professionals to scale both themselves and their businesses. Founded in 2013, HoneyBook is a champion of the independent economy, trusted by over 100,000 independent business owners and supporting $11 billion in transactions on the platform. Learn more at HoneyBook.com.

Our culture is built on five core values that inform everything we do. We encourage collaboration, feedback, ownership, and have a growth mindset. We know experience comes in many different forms, some visible on your resume, others not. No one candidate will be a 100% perfect match to our description, so if you thrive in a fast-paced, intellectually-charged environment and have similar experience to what we are looking for, we encourage you to apply. HoneyBook’s marketing creative studio is seeking a Senior Designer who will serve as a central creative contributor and skilled visual communicator, responsible for ensuring that creative vision is maintained and exceptionally executed throughout production.

About the role: 

As the Senior Designer, you thrive on inspiring and delivering creative excellence despite evolving constraints. This position requires strong collaboration, organizational and communication skills, and an eye for the tiniest detail. A multi-platform thinker by default, you’re interested in the unique opportunities each medium provides. You understand that concept and execution are inseparable when it comes to design, and you know how to execute both at the highest level — whether creating original artwork or collaborating with a production vendor. And you feel comfortable concepting, prototyping, pitching, and building comprehensive brand guidelines and owning bespoke creative outputs from concept to execution. 

Never hesitating to jump in with a peer to generate ideas, you’re both a leader and a collaborator driving the creative production process forward. Candidates should feel comfortable working with creatives throughout a well-constructed process while being able to effectively communicate with non-creatives. Whatever the brief, you seek to build an authentic connection with employees in order to bring HoneyBook’s global culture to life. This role reports directly to HoneyBook’s ACD, Design.

This role will require you to be in our San Francisco office 2–3 days per week (the current expectation is Wednesdays & Thursdays).

Here are a few of the things you will work on:

• Brand Identity Development: Create or contribute to and evolve a comprehensive identity and design systems for HoneyBook's internal brand, ensuring they match the quality of external brand and marketing efforts.
• Creative Problem-Solving: Develop simple and elegant approaches to complex design problems, balancing employee goals, business needs, technical requirements, and project budgets.
• Platform Agnostic: Conceptualize and execute designs across various mediums including brand identity, campaigns, editorial, social, print, events, web, and presentations, leveraging the unique opportunities each platform provides.
• Project Ownership: Take responsibility for projects from concept to final execution, working in partnership with creative and production leadership across a wide range of formats.
• Collaborative Creation: Partner with copywriters, other designers / design leaders, and the Executive Creative Director on vendor oversight and creative partnerships, contributing to the ideation and execution of high-quality work.
• Process Improvement: Contribute to enhancing workflow and creative production processes to elevate the work and scale the marketing creative studio.
• Creative Benchmarking: Help establish and maintain creative standards through briefs, education, and clear direction to ensure consistent quality across all design outputs.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate cross-functionally with diverse teams, balancing stakeholder needs while seeking opportunities to elevate work and craft.
• Design Advocacy: Articulate and sell ideas behind the work, clearly conveying the intent to partners and stakeholders.
• Brand Guideline Development: Create or maintain comprehensive brand guidelines and bespoke creative outputs, ensuring consistency and coherence across all design elements.
• Innovation and Trends: Stay current with design trends and emerging technologies (such as AI tools), introducing innovative approaches to enh