Web Designer, Brand Experience
Job Description
As a multidisciplinary Web Designer on our team, you will collaborate closely with other Brand Designers, Writing and Content Designers, Growth Designers, Product Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, Marketers, and Design Operations. You will deliver on prioritized product and marketing initiatives where web design can play a critical role in shaping and implementing our creative strategy. You will contribute to the Design Leadership team’s vision of how we continue to define, shape, and grow Grammarly’s Web Design Kit, which informs how we tell stories and drive value across our web surfaces. You will focus on how our web experience plays a significant part in how people become aware, learn about, and experience Grammarly before, during, and after they’ve used our product offerings. You also explore and maintain a strong point-of-view on how our existing experiences will evolve within a brand refresh. You will help shape how Grammarly’s brand becomes recognizable and notable as one of the best design-first brands in the world.
Responsibilities
- Deliver work from start to finish autonomously as well as in a team, with a focus on responsive web design.
- Develop strategic storytelling by advocating for modern and forward-thinking web design while being aware of web best practices, technical considerations, and limitations–all while designing with accessibility in mind.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners across Marketing fluidly and flexibly while building trust in how we implement consistent and engaging experiences that drive results.
- Collaborate with all functions on the Design team to maintain a cohesive, consistent web experience wherever our brand comes to life.
- Ideate across creative landing page experiments that will be tested for performance.
- Work cross-functionally with colleagues who focus on building awareness and knowledge of product features across the web and digital platforms.
- Manage, maintain, and evolve our internal Web Design Kit that empowers partners from Design, Marketing, Product, and Engineering to build and optimize landing pages and new experiences.
- Report to a Brand Design Manager.
Job Requirements
- Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
- Is able to collaborate in person in San Francisco 3 weeks per quarter.
- Has a minimum of 6 years experience as a web designer on growing design teams.
- Has both web and digital design experience (working in a component-based design system and CMS (Contentful at Grammarly), understanding of video and motion, and foundational skills in visual brand design (typography, color, composition, and illustration).
- Harnesses solid written and verbal communication to encourage alignment across functions and departments.
- Is excited about working with ambiguity and being part of a cross-functional team.
- Approaches the design process without ego.
- Focuses relentlessly on our customers’ needs and wants and can add delight to any experience.
- Understands how to proactively seek and provide opportunities to improve the skills and experiences that will help elevate the work we do.
- Knows how to receive and give design feedback and improve quickly.
- Has skills in Figma, core Adobe Creative Cloud apps (AI, PSD), HTML, CSS, experience with CMS (we use Contentful), and as a bonus—experience with low to no-code platforms like Webflow and Framer.
