Senior Principal Brand Designer

San Francisco, CA, United States

Intercom was founded in 2011 to change the standard of customer service online. Our AI-first customer service platform is a totally new way to deliver customer service and is designed to transform the way businesses interact with their customers through AI. We all know that customer service on the internet sucks. It's slow and impersonal. We help businesses provide instant and exceptional service to their customers and maximize their support agents' productivity, efficiency, and performance-all through our single AI system. More than 25,000 businesses use Intercom to send millions of messages to millions of customers each month.Intercom has been a long-standing product leader and cultural icon in the technology and startup worlds for more than a decade. We set the pace for our industry and live by our values that allow us to push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and deliver incredible value to our customers.Join us on our mission to redefine customer service and make internet business personal.

What's the opportunity?

The Intercom Creative Studio is looking for a Senior Principal Designer to lead the team in creating inspiring, boundary pushing, world-class design work. This is an individual contributor who will work directly with the Chief Executive Officer, Head of Design, and Creative Director to deliver the highest quality design and creative work across various key initiatives and projects.

The ideal candidate will present a robust portfolio of quality design work that shows an emphasis in experimental design, typography, and real-world applications. This person's work should pull inspiration from a wealth of artistic references and styles and should have an expertise and passion for art history with an ability to recognize and reference great artistic eras, influences, and figures.

The candidate should have a wealth of boundary-pushing visual design experience, an obsession with sweating the finer details of design, ability to art-direct towards brand accurate execution, a driving ambition for creative quality, and will lead the team through unparalleled work ethic, optimistic outlook, and unrivaled design work.

This person knows what great looks like, has great aesthetic tastes, and has a signal on what others are doing in the creative/tech/saas space.

This person should be articulate in presenting their ideas, confident in their approach, and passionate in their interactions and execution. They should also be empathetic, kind and approachable with a willingness to work with others and a desire to build a strong creative culture within the team.

What will I be doing?

Work directly with the CEO, Head of Design, and Creative Director to deliver world-class design work

Lead execution of impeccable design work across the team

Design direct more junior designers with precise, inspiring, thoughtful design feedback

Work on key, high-impact, high visibility projects

Create impactful branding for Intercom events

Continuously learn about Intercom's products and maintain deep empathy with B2B SaaS audiences

Document and communicate design & creative learnings to other members of the Creative Studio and stakeholders across the company

What skills do I need?

15+ years design experience with a portfolio showcasing a breadth of brand work

Proficiency in Figma, Adobe CC

Experience in motion design and illustration (in execution and/or art direction)

Ability to work autonomously and guide more junior members of the team

Ability to balance staying on top of design trends while remaining true to Intercom's core brand identity

Detail oriented-ability to sweat design details while also seeing the big picture

Understand the impact of change at a strategic, systems-wide level that can affect the brand as a whole

Ability to communicate with precision, clarity, honesty, and respect

Ability to articulate and defend decisions to senior leadership

A strong understanding of Intercom's brand strategy and how to apply it

A strong understanding of business goals and strategy

Ability to navigate ambiguous projects

Benefits

We are a well-treated bunch, with awesome benefits! If there's something important to you that's not on this list, talk to us! :)

Competitive salary and meaningful equity

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Regular compensation reviews - great work is rewarded!

Open vacation policy and 10 corporate holidays

Paid Parental Leave Program

401k plan & match

In-office bicycle storage

Fun events for Intercomrades, friends, and family!

The base salary range for candidates within the San Francisco Bay Area is $195,500 - $264,500. Actual base pay will depend on a variety of factors such as education, skills, experience, location, etc. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All regular employees may also be eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

*Proof of eligibility to work in the United States is required.

Policies

Intercom has a hybrid working policy. We believe that working in person helps us stay connected, collaborate easier and create a great culture while still providing flexibility to work from home. We expect employees to be in the office at least two days per week.

We have a radically open and accepting culture at Intercom. We avoid spending time on divisive subjects to foster a safe and cohesive work environment for everyone. As an organization, our policy is to not advocate on behalf of the company or our employees on any social or political topics out of our internal or external communications. We respect personal opinion and expression on these topics on personal social platforms on personal time, and do not challenge or confront anyone for their views on non-work related topics. Our goal is to focus on doing incredible work to achieve our goals and unite the company through our core values.

Intercom values diversity and is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity. Intercom will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.

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