Art Director

Lucid Software offers a leading Visual Collaboration Suite that helps teams see and build the future from idea to reality. With its products—Lucidchart, Lucidspark and Lucidscale—teams can align around a shared vision, clarify complexity, and collaborate visually, no matter where they're located. Top businesses use Lucid's products all around the world, including customers such as Google, GE, and NBC Universal. Lucid's partners include industry leaders such as Google, Atlassian, and Microsoft. 

With a fast-growing team of more than 1,000 employees, we are committed to maximizing collaboration and innovation in the workplace through our products and with our people. Lucid is a hybrid, remote-friendly workplace, providing employees the flexibility to work where they are most productive, whether that’s at home, in the office, or a combination of the two. 

We hold true to our core values: innovation in everything we do, passion & excellence in every area, individual empowerment, initiative and ownership, and teamwork over ego. At Lucid, we welcome diversity and are dedicated to creating an environment and culture that is respectful and inclusive for everyone.

Since the company’s founding, Lucid has received numerous global and regional recognitions for its products, business, and workplace culture. These include being named a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology and a 2022 Glassdoor Best Place to Work, inclusion on the Forbes Cloud 100, and placing #19 on G2’s Best Software Products for 2022 list.

To support Lucid’s rapid growth, we’re looking for a team-oriented Art Director to join the Brand Creative team. Reporting to a creative director, you’ll help us elevate our brand, work with stakeholders, and guide the design of marketing efforts for a specific product line and/or marketing channel.


Responsibilities:

• Understand the strategy, values, audience, and functionality of our products
• Expound upon our visual identity, while working towards a unified brand architecture
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the organization
• Solve problems by engaging in thorough design processes
• Drive brand consistency through the development of style guides and other brand management processes
• Actively engage in hands-on design work
• Partner with freelancers and/or in-house designers to accomplish large projects, providing direction and constructive feedback along the way
• Maintain design integrity for marketing collateral, website imagery, nurture campaigns, ads, events, etc.
• Partner with copywriters, video/motion team members, and web developers to execute creative projects

Requirements:

• BFA/BA in design or related major, or combination of relevant education and experience.
• 5+ years of experience
• Proven experience in generating creative ideas and concepts
• Portfolio that displays a strong design aesthetic
• Experience in designing for web, mobile, and print Detail focused, goal oriented, and well organized
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written
• Experience pitching creative ideas, collaborating, and gathering buy-in from stakeholders
• Ability to balance several projects at a time

Preferred Qualifications:

• An advanced understanding of typography and layout
• Good use of composition, color, and white space Knowledge in motion design, illustration, or photography is a plus
• A diverse range of projects with a strong focus on digital-based design

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