Visual Designer
WHO WE ARE
Golden Hippo is an employee-owned, vertically-integrated, highly profitable direct-to-consumer marketer of health, beauty, and pet care brands that collectively generate $1 billion of revenue annually. Our employees are passionate about our mission to create best-in-class products across broadly appealing categories — to help people live their healthiest, happiest lives.
Our A-players are results-driven creative thinkers who like to move fast, get the job done, and have fun doing it. If you love to roll up your sleeves, take on exciting new challenges every day, and drive massive growth, we want to hear from you!
WHY YOU SHOULD WORK WITH US
Here at Golden Hippo, we work to develop best-in-class products, revolutionary marketing campaigns, and glowing customer experiences. We pride ourselves on our award-winning culture and incredibly diverse workforce. We intentionally strive to cultivate, create, and celebrate a rich, vibrant and inclusive culture of belonging where our employees feel respected and empowered. We also offer:
- Award-winning culture… Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company in Los Angeles 202, Best Teams - Marketing 2021, Best Company - Leadership 2020, and more! Click here to view more.
- Competitive salary & bonus opportunities
- Flexible, remote work arrangements available for most positions
- Highly valuable employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
- Employer-paid benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, parental leave, and more)
- Generous matching 401K plan
- UNLIMITED room for growth and results-based pay increases
- Highly interactive, challenging work with a talented, diverse, passionate team
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities such as manager and employee development classes, Tuition Assistance Program, book club, film club, webinars, mentorship program, Hippo Talks, and much more
- Casual, "no dress code" atmosphere
- In-office gym & fitness classes, fully-stocked kitchen, plus regular yoga, meditation breaks, happy hours, and events
See what it’s like working at Golden Hippo!
THE ROLE
Golden Hippo is currently looking for a Visual Designer who will be responsible for working directly with our Brand Manager and be a part of the entire life cycle of a Ultimate Pet Nutrition from research, sketches, mood boards, logos, packaging and website design. The Visual Designer ensures that our brands look and feel is visually innovative and engaging throughout digital and print formats.
WHAT YOUR DAY WILL LOOK LIKE
- Work closely with Brand Manager and collaborate with other designers, project managers and developers on brand identity and user experience touchpoints
- Collaborate on the brand life cycle through design research, mood boards, identity, packaging, print and web
- Work to improve Ultimate Pet Nutrition
- Keep a consistent brand look and feel for web, banner ads, print and packaging
- Collaborate with photographer and fellow designers on directing photoshoots and social media content creation for various social media platforms
- Design packaging labels, unit cartons and promotional inserts
- Create visually stunning responsive websites for both mobile and desktop
- Collaborate with various departments on ensuring content is in line with brand identity
- Present mood boards to gurus on potential brand redesigns by creating presentations and demonstrating digital mockups
IDEAL CANDIDATES WILL HAVE
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5-7 years of experience designing brands for print, web and social media
- Experience designing high fidelity graphic assets in Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, InVision, etc.
- Ability to provide detailed print ready files to printer and web ready files to developers
- Passion for designing clean, modern aesthetic that showcase beautiful typography and white space
- A great attitude, collaborative spirit and openness to giving and receiving feedback
- Outstanding communication skills
- Ability to be resourceful
Equal Employment Opportunity
Golden Hippo strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.
We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, for applicants in Los Angeles, California, and consistent with applicable laws in other areas.
Hiring Practices
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Golden Hippo recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Golden Hippo may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.