Graphic Designer

About Twine

We're a thriving ecosystem of top-tier freelancers from around the world. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley startups alike, Twine is the go-to platform for mission-critical projects. With over half a million registered freelancers and a growing roster of 35,000+ companies, we've become the comprehensive solution for all things freelancing.

Our Mission

At Twine, we recognize that companies require a flexible approach to hiring expert freelancers for their most critical projects. Traditional freelance platforms often fall short when it comes to scalability and diversity. That's where we shine. Twine operates as a thriving global freelance network, with diverse experts across various fields, including marketing, engineering, and AI. Our core mission is to empower creators, whether they're businesses or individual freelancers, to thrive in their creative endeavors.

About the Job

We are seeking a Graphic Designer for a certified consulting firm. They should be passionate about delivering creative, empowering, and inclusive AI-first templates for small business and consumer customer experiences. It’s a great intersection of design and AI and machine learning and setting up a lot that hasn’t existed to this point.

Responsibilities:

• Work in partnership with Principal Designer to develop a unified artistic direction, vision, and high production standard in the creation of AI-responsive and generative templates for Microsoft Designer

• Set high standards for innovative template design across a range of diverse styles, providing guidance and leadership that results in a cohesive, best-in-class body of work

• Push the boundaries on how art is represented and produced using new tools and processes

• Set clear objectives and key results for the team, ensuring team members are active and empowered participants in the design process

• Inspire the creative team to be passionate and ambitious in their work, creating a positive, inclusive culture that fuels the creative team’s energy

• Develop style guidelines, mood boards, specs and best practices to document design planning and workflows

• Conduct creative reviews for design sprints, providing detailed feedback to ensure high quality design execution

• Working with a variety of emerging tools and technologies, overseeing technical builds to ensure all engineering requirements are met for successful ingestion to the content catalog

• Partner closely with product, design, and engineering to identify opportunities for feature enhancements that will elevate design quality and customer experience

• Demonstrate a detail-oriented, obsessive eye for creative execution and technical accuracy

• Drive delivery schedule

• Assist with curation of visual assets and fonts to inform new content acquisition

• Manage design and production pipelines, identifying tools and efficiencies to improve internal processes

Requirements

• 8+ years Program Management experience

• 8+ years Art Director experience

• 3+ years Figma, PowerPoint, office apps experience

• 8+ years Project Management experience

• Portfolio (should include examples of style and work. Also would like to see ideas and the work produced under your leadership.)

Qualifications

• Prior experience working at Microsoft as an FTE or contractor

• Proven experience understanding technical skills and constraints, and the creativity to imagine new uses for them

• Proven interpersonal and communication skills that demonstrate ability to convey complex and abstract concepts

• Portfolio demonstrating excellence in art direction, visual communication, creativity, and compelling storytelling

• Proven creative industry experience leading a delivering a broad range of design projects

• Adobe Suite experience

• Experience planning and delivering work for a collaborative, multidisciplinary team

• Comfortable in the details, but able to step back and enable others

• Remains calm and confident in a fast paced, changing environment and thrives on juggling multiple projects at once

• Strong time management and organizational skills