Staff Visual Designer

Design the products that power global trade

The opportunity:

Are you excited about making a difference in the world? Do you believe that aesthetic and beauty are equally important to the user experience in designing digital products? Come join our design system team at Flexport and support our full product space!

Flexport’s mission is to make global trade easy for everyone. To achieve this goal, the Flexport User Experience (UX) team creates end-to-end experiences for our clients, partners, and operations teams. Flexport’s design system, Latitude, is an evolving system that serves a group of over 500 designers, product managers, and engineers. 

As a Staff Visual Designer on the Design Systems team, you will lead the effort to rethink the look and feel of our products, evolving the visual language across our web and mobile products. One of your main and key areas of contribution will focus on the visual style of our system components. Iconography, graphic elements, color palettes, data visualization, spatial components, micro animations and component styling and more. In pursuing this mission, you’ll empower teams throughout Flexport while developing the look, style, and feel of our products. 

You will:

• As a team member in our UX team, you will own and drive the visual design of our components and patterns for both mobile and web.
• Work with product designers to define and evolve scalable components
• Inspire your team to push the boundaries of Visual quality
• Define accompanying design guidelines which articulate user needs/scenarios
• Build and foster design system culture across our organization. We care deeply about our designer and developer experiences.
• Present work in a range of fidelities
• Collaborate across design and engineering to align teams and educate on our system’s best practices 
• Provide mentorship to more junior designers

You Should Have:

• 8+ years professional hands-on graphic /visual design experience
• Strong portfolio (please include a link and password to your portfolio)
• Experience design for mobile first and native app 
• Experience working on a leading / mature design system
• Ability to clearly articulate your work and rationale
• Expert understanding and application of user-centered design methods.
• Experience working with product teams in a dynamic, agile environment
• A degree in HCI, UX, Interaction, Graphic Design, or related fields is preferred.

Bonus Points:

• You understand the core features in Figma, relative to design systems
• You have experience with Illustrator and/or photoshop
• You have experience with prototyping (in Figma or w/ HTML/CSS)
• Illustration and/or animation experience
• You have experience working with REACT framework

About Flexport:

We believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global trade easier for everyone. We aim to do this by building the Operating System for Global trade - a strategic model combining advanced technology and data analytics, logistics infrastructure, and supply chain expertise. Flexport today connects almost 10,000 clients and suppliers across 109 countries, including established global brands like Georgia-Pacific as well as emerging innovators like Sonos. Started in 2013, we've raised over $1.3B in funding from SoftBank Vision Fund, Founders Fund, GV, First Round Capital and Y Combinator. We’re excited about the three big ways we’re moving forward after our recent $1B investment from SoftBank Vision Fund in February 2019.

Worried about not having any logistics experience?

• Don’t be! We’re building the first Operating System for Global Trade. That’s why it’s incredibly important for us to bring people from diverse backgrounds and experiences together with our industry veterans to help move the freight forwarding industry forward.
• What’s freight forwarding and why does it matter? Freight forwarding is the coordination and shipment of goods from one place to another and it’s what makes global trade possible. Flexport is on a mission to make global trade easier for everyone because we believe it can help connect the world and break down economic barriers.
• We know this industry is complex. That’s why we invest in education starting day one with Flexport Academy, a one week intensive onboarding program designed specifically to set every new Flexport employee up for success.

At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global trade easy for everyone relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce. That is why Flexport is committed to creating and nurturing an environment where anyone can be their authentic self. All