Designer

PSPDFKit is the leading document processing and manipulation platform for developers and enterprise businesses. Our customers use our offering to create, edit, sign, and collaborate on documents in their applications across mobile, web, and all other major platforms. We’re on a mission to empower developers with the tools needed to innovate beyond paper.

Nearly a billion end users in more than 150 countries rely on PSPDFKit every day, including industry leaders like Dropbox, DocuSign, SAP, IBM, Volkswagen, Fabasoft, Wolters Kluwer Deutschland, and the European Patent Office. Our software development kits enable companies to work smarter and faster, saving time and expenses along the way, while effectively replacing the need for paper processes.

What you will do...

You’ll design a wide variety of graphics — mainly digital media that will help communicate and convey our company’s brand and product value. To be impactful, you will:

• Build a deep understanding of our brand, offerings, and customer needs

• Continually strive to “walk in the shoes” of our target market (developers) to relate to and understand what drives them, and share your insights with the team

• Study relevant information and materials, and subscribe to and follow design trends and tools

• Design concepts by creating wireframes, mockups, and prototypes and present to various stakeholders for alignment and approval

• Create a wide range of graphics, diagrams, illustrations, animations, and layouts for product illustrations and websites

• Continuously review current design solutions and suggest improvements

• Communicate finalized designs and specifications to engineers expected to use them to build products

• Work in a highly collaborative fashion with product, marketing, sales, and engineering teams to identify, align, and prioritize design improvement opportunities

• Participate in design reviews and share your work regularly with the design and leadership teams

On a typical day, you’ll…

• Partner with experienced designers to conceptualize, design, present, and execute forward-thinking creative graphic and web designs, including: blog post illustrations and animations, digital ad creative graphics, websites, landing pages, newsletters, and more

• Deliver finalized, full-fidelity design comps for marketing and implementation

• Manage creative asset production across multiple projects

• Use meticulous attention to detail as it applies to the application of PSPDFKit internal design guidelines

• Create in a non-linear and agile method

• Collaborate with and present advertisement and web design concepts to cross-functional teams using words and visuals

About you...

Our ideal candidate is passionate about all things design, is capable of delivering brilliant creative ideas, and shows attention to detail. You could be that candidate if you:

• Are autonomous, self-motivated, and able to work independently

• Are analytical and systematic in your approach to problem-solving

• Think in systems and are able to extrapolate and extend shared patterns and behaviors

• Can reduce complex information to its essence and manage ambiguity

• Are curious, if not passionate, about software development and improving document handling workflows

• Take ownership of assigned tasks within projects

• Feel comfortable sharing your process with others to get feedback and adapt

Qualifications...

• Bachelor’s degree in design

• 3+ years experience as a graphic designer or digital designer

• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects), Figma, or comparable creative software

• Demonstrable graphic design skills, with a strong portfolio

• Comfortability executing core design skill sets: visual design, interaction design, and information architecture

• Advanced knowledge of typography, layout, motion design, and illustration

• Frontend HTML / CSS experience is a plus

• Ability to collaborate, regularly iterate, and validate your ideas with team members

• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously

• Strong organizational, project management, and self-directing skills

• A strong focus on users and solving their needs with an investigative and inquisitive mindset

• Ability to thrive in an autonomous environment and communicate asynchronously (we’re a fully remote company)

• Excellent communication and presentation skills in fluent English (written and spoken)

About us...

In 2021, PSPDFKit announced its first strategic growth investment led by Insight Partners, a New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm focused on growth-stage software and technology companies. Insight’s investment, which totals more than $115 million, is being used to accelerate product growth, sales & marketing efforts, and fund strategic acquisitions, further expanding the capabilities of PSPDFKit’s highly adopted document processing platform.

PSPDFKit hires people who are curious, creative, communicative, and collaborative. We’re a highly cross-functional organization, and we’re committed to tackling challenging problems so our customers can focus on building great products.

We value...

• Continuous improvement

• Feedback

• Transparency

• People

• Creativity

• Character

For a deeper understanding of our core values, please visit our website.

PSPDFKit is an equal opportunity employer with people from many different cultures and countries. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, skill sets, perspectives, as well as providing our employees with a work environment free of harassment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, marital status, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, or any other non-merit factor. We’d especially love to receive applications from individuals who are underrepresented in the tech industry.