Senior Visual Designer

About Tessell

Founded in 2021, Tessell is a hyper-growth Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) company offering a revolutionary data infrastructure and management platform for both cloud-born and cloud-defining enterprises. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a big hub in Bangalore, Tessell provides a fully managed service for both open-source and commercial data technologies such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server on all major clouds, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

Tessell has raised Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, a global venture capital firm, to fuel global expansion and focus on delivering a consumer-grade experience for an enterprise-grade service.

Tessell is building a pathbreaking technology that revolutionizes the way data is managed in the cloud. Tessell is growing quickly, and we need passionate and tenacious people to join us and work on diverse teams with a diverse range of experts.

About the Opportunity

We are looking for a dynamic graphic designer to join our team and work on a variety of creative campaigns, large and small. You should be a master of the craft, ready to take an idea and bring it to life in beautiful ways on projects such as global campaigns or the core communications of our various products. 

You must be a self-starter with a can-do attitude and a designer who loves design exploration but also recognizes the realities of day-to-day work. You will manage your projects in a timely manner, work with external and internal vendors, present your work to stakeholders, and explain your design thinking. 

You will work within the context of the Tessell brand, but you will be empowered to push boundaries, and explore ways to extend the brand and challenge the status quo. You will create your work with great attention to detail and craft.

Responsibilities

• In this role, you will be embedded with and supporting the global Marketing Team.
• Work with marketing partners to manage the team's design projects, ensuring deliverables are on time and on brief.
• Work on a wide range of projects including demand generation and product marketing assets, landing pages, infographics, guides/eBooks, social media campaigns, event spaces, sales tools, advertising, and other go-to-market assets that drive visibility for and interest in Tessell.
• Develop and oversee digital and print design projects from conception to delivery.
• Work collaboratively across marketing with copywriters, demand gen, developers, and customer and product marketing to brainstorm ideas that engage Tessell customers and prospects to drive purchase intent.
• Drive work with creative partners to develop concepts and designs that can be executed across digital channels including web, email, blog, social media, and digital paid media.
• Oversee design of weekly digital projects while ensuring assets support responsive design principles, and e-commerce best practices, and follow corporate standards related to visual style and branding guidelines.
• Work within the Brand and Creative team which is responsible for the creative and art direction of the company, driving a unified brand identity across diverse marketing assets. You'll evolve and extend the company's identity and support and differentiate Tessell's position in the marketplace.
• Design marketing collateral and emails that are easily replicable, and be responsible for evolving the design, look and feel of our website, including our blog.
• Work on a wide range of projects including demand generation and product marketing assets, landing pages, infographics, guides/eBooks, social media campaigns, and other go-to-market assets that drive visibility for and interest in Tessell.
• Work collaboratively with our events team to design event registration pages, banners, giveaways, and more.
• Accomplish all identified digital marketing project goals for visual design, brand strategy, and user experience.
• Stay current on industry trends and inform creative partners on digital processes, technologies, trends, and potential opportunities to accomplish a seamless customer experience.
• Take meetings and collaborate in real-time with the US and India-based creative team

Qualifications

• 2+ years of creative expertise in design at an agency, design shop, or internal marketing team.
• Must be conceptual and able to develop concepts and original graphics.
• Must be comfortable taking your designs to production-ready files.
• Deep understanding of Design theory including Color, Typography, and Layout.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud including XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Must have an online portfolio and be clearly able to discuss your role on each project.
• You are able to develop simple and elegant design solutions to solve complex design problems.
• Ability to meet deadlines and collaborate with a team.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
• You are fearless, boundlessly creative, and relentlessly attentive to detail.
• Motion graphics and or 3D capability.
• Illustration skills.
• Video editing and production.

Why You Should Apply

• Generous and competitive benefits.
• Competitive Salary & equity grants.
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities.
• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space.
• Best-in-breed onboarding.
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture.
• Ability to influence a high-performance company on its way to becoming a unicorn.

Equal Opportunity at Tessell

Tessell is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.