Brand Designer

ABOUT OOBLEC

Ooblec is a small product development consulting team that has designed and developed hundreds of beautiful and easy-to-use consumer and industrial products that their users love. With the rise of eCommerce and 'DTC' (direct to customer) brands, there is more opportunity than ever before for unique, innovative products and brands.

We have helped our clients create & successfully launch over 160 innovative products and brands over the past 8 years, including many that have sold tens of millions in revenue (USD) over their lifetimes.

Today, most of our clients are self-funded entrepreneurs who find us through paid online advertising. We help them formulate a strategy for their product, and create their product and brand from scratch so they can launch profitably and grow their dream. In additional to consulting for others, Ooblec is working on its own product-based brand ventures that are growing quickly on Amazon and other eCommerce platforms.


THIS OPPORTUNITY

We are looking to increase the bandwidth, quality, & speed for the brand creation & product development services we offer our clients. This includes everything from brand name brainstorming, positioning strategy, logo design, brand visual identity, packaging, and eCommerce web design. You would be working under our lead brand design Lili and collaborating primarily with her, myself, and our clients to create multiple brands at a time for various clients and sometimes for our own ventures.


REQUIREMENTS

- Friendly personality with ability to empathize with others from different backgrounds and personalities/cultures
- Excellent Active Listening, Listening Comprehension, & Organizational Skills
-'Self Starter' mindset and willingness to ask proactive questions, creatively solve problems, and figure things out?- Strong understanding of principles and concepts of good visual design, user experience, and marketing
- Comfort, fluency, & skill in freehand sketching/doodling to generate brand/logo/graphic/visual ideas and concepts (both analog & digital)
- Fluency and skill in Adobe Creative Suite and related graphic design software such as Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, etc.
- Excellent awareness of brand and graphic design trends, and ability to create new beautiful visual brands from scratch
- Understanding of, and/or interest in, US consumer culture psychology and philosophical approach to product development, design, marketing, and brand strategy etc.
- Strong English language fluency and ability/desire to improve and master it


RESPONSIBILITIES & TASKS

- Assist design team in client communications, research, project management, hands-on design work, and other necessary tasks
- Perform light internet research on existing consumer product categories and their related brand visuals/marketing content?- Synthesize ‘design language’ inspiration mood boards as reference for potential directions/strategies to pursue
- Generate & develop a broad variety of brand, logo, color palette, packaging, web layout, and related brand visual concepts?- Use hand sketching/doodling and digital tools to ideate, iterate, refine, and finalize brand visual identities from scratch
- Assist and collaborate with US team in selecting and refining brand color palette strategy, packaging strategy, etc.?- Absorb & clarify detailed direction from the US team regarding nuanced & complex design concepts related to various projects
- Participate in regular internal design team meetings, reviews, and in occasional client meetings and reviews via zoom video call & other methods?- Proactively explore, execute design tasks and discern when you need to ask for direction in order to proceed smoothly and efficiently


BONUS SKILLS / OPPORTUNITIES

- Familiarity, related interest, or experience in marketing, eCommerce, packaging, etc.?- Familiarity, related interest, or experience in web development, CSS styling, coding, etc.
- Familiarity or any past experience in project management
- Resources and availability to use video chat if feasible (good internet connection, good 'video call' room setup, etc.


BENEFITS

- Fun, friendly, casual culture, collaborating with a small US-based team
- This is our first non-US position, I'm happy to discuss further any expectations you have for time off, schedule, etc. :)


AVAILABILITY

- Availability to work at least part of your daily schedule during daytime business hours in the US for daily sync up between all design team members
(we can be flexible depending on what works best for everyone)