As the leader and a key member of our growing Brand and Creative Design Team here at Kinsa, you’ll be working closely with your partners in our Marketing, Sales, and Product Design teams. You will use your leadership and creativity to drive a critical team’s success and evolve our brand across a broad range of channels and applications. You will report to and collaborate with the Director of Design.

Your designs will touch millions of lives as our connected products and thermometers are now sold in more than 10,000+ stores nationwide. Our products help families, schools, and communities stay healthy while advancing our broader mission: to create a real time map of human health in order to track—and stop—the spread of disease.

This is the ideal position for a designer who’s looking to:

• Lead and grow a talented and collaborative Brand and Creative Design team
• Help drive the direction of Kinsa’s brand and build out systems and process
• See designs quickly translated from concept to real-world products
• Make a huge impact in a startup organization, the healthcare industry and in the day-to-day lives of families across the country

Responsibilities:

• Own the strategy, management, and growth of our Brand and Creative Design team
• Mentor and actively facilitate the professional growth of designers under your leadership
• Help develop and grow our brand to ensure consistency across everything we do
• Manage and work on multiple creative projects simultaneously, collaborating with sales, customer experience and marketing partners, to develop compelling concepts in a myriad of marketing channels
• Design compelling content for our website, social media, digital marketing campaigns, emails, slide decks, infographics, videos, packaging, sales support, promotional materials and more
• Support our smaller internal media projects with illustration, motion graphics, video editing, photography and more
• Facilitate honest and collaborative communication, leading by example and articulating your design decisions clearly and effectively to the team
• Critically analyze the success of your solutions and iterate quickly on new ideas

Qualifications:

• A desire to use your skills to have a widespread impact on people. We are a mission-first company.
• Humility and a positive attitude. We welcome healthy discussion and debate, but we make sure to put ideas ahead of egos.
• A growth mindset. You strive to develop your skills through hard work, learning, and experimentation. Each failure is an opportunity to learn from.
• A collaborative spirit. You understand your greatest resources are your teammates and cross-functional partners.
• A human-centered approach. You determine a path forward and measure your success by your impact on humans.
• 4-6 years experience in a Brand/Graphic/Communication design role, with experience developing, evolving, and applying a company’s brand and design across a suite of products
• 2+ years experience managing designers
• Experience creating and evolving design systems and processes
• A strong visual aesthetic, with a deep understanding of color, composition, and typography
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), Microsoft Office, and Google Workspace
• Experience working across digital and print mediums
• Willingness to take initiative, run with projects, and speak up when support or guidance is needed
• Outstanding organizational, time management, and prioritization skills
• Excellent communication skills, understanding driving alignment and collaboration are integral to a successful team and culture

Nice-to-haves:

• Video editing and motion graphics experience
• Packaging design experience
• Familiarity with Product Design tools like Sketch and Figma

When applying:

• With your resume, please send a link to your portfolio which showcases your experience designing for and applying a company’s brand across multiple projects. If not already included in your portfolio, please also send details about the problem you were solving for, your design process, any challenges you faced, and outcomes of the project.

More about us:

● Our team has led programs that brought life-saving treatment to millions of people, started several successful ventures, and built best-in-class mobile apps and hardware.

● We’re backed by Kleiner Perkins, GSR Ventures and FirstMark Capital and led by some of the top public health, software, hardware and mobile app minds in the business.

● We have over 2 million products in the field, are on shelves at over 10,000 retails stores, and our products continue to win numerous design, tech and parenting awards, and have been featured in an Apple TV commercial, The New York Times, Rachel Maddow, CBS This Morning, CNN, NBC News, CBS News, The Today Show, Good Morning America, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and many more!

About Us:

Be Committed: We are committed to our mission. We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us: to change the face of public health and save hundreds of thousands of lives in the process. We are committed to working hard, working smart, working together, and doing what it takes to make a difference. Our time is now.