As Brand Designer at Zest AI you will be responsible for scaling and maintaining a cohesive brand design language across our marketing and product ecosystem. As the first Brand Designer you will have room to explore and create unique designs that support Zest's vision of transforming credit risk management and mission to make fair and transparent credit available to all.

Our ideal new team member will have an attention for detail and an eye for quality, along with the ability to grasp and translate technical capabilities into a story that resonates with our target customers through compelling forms of design. You are confident enough to share and sell your ideas, and perceptive enough to know when to encourage others to share theirs. You thrive on combining analytical, data-driven analyses and decision-making with intuitive, emotional, inspiring design— providing holistic vision with an eye on business results. You are driven to make an awesome first impression and every impression thereafter a great one. You are eager to dive into a complex space and shape the way people see and hear our brand and product through design that attracts, inspires, and engages.

In this role you will:

• Drive the design vision and strategy for projects such as continuing to build and define the Zest brand across marketing materials, internal and external company initiatives.
• Scale and maintain Zest’s brand design language across the company and product ecosystem.
• You’ll own the development and design of our brand asset library and content management (illustrations, icons, corporate website pages and more)
• You'll own the design and execution of marketing, advertising, and sales collateral and communications (e.g. creatives, emails, thought leadership and content resources, presentations, webpages, swag, print, and event installations)
• Work cross functionally across product, marketing, sales, and customer success to translate business needs, product concepts, and customer value into expressive design solutions.
• You'll generate clear ideas, concepts, and designs from beginning to endArticulate and defend your design decisions and rational to stakeholders

We are looking for:

• 5+ years of visual design experience (animation, photography, and/or video editing a big plus!)
• A love for illustration, typography, grid systems, and design systems at scaleDesign Tools: Figma, Figma Design Systems, and Adobe Creative Suite
• Other tools: Google Suite, Notion, Expression Engine CMS, Marketo
• Exceptional understanding of typography, color theory, voice and tone, and layoutPrioritization of business needs and an understanding of how to manage priorities and constraints
• Maintain a high-bar for creative quality for yourself and the company while pushing to find the best solutions.

Perks and benefits:

• People – the best part of Zest
• Robust healthcare plans, matching 401K and unlimited vacation time
• Weekly company wide “all hands” meetings 
• Virtual weekly happy hours, sometimes casual and other times with a focus around topics like racial discrimination and LGBTQ+ history
• Employee care packages to make WFH more enjoyable

About Zest AI:

Here at Zest AI, we’re leveraging the power of machine learning and big data to challenge the traditional method of credit underwriting. Lending institutions apply our product – Zest Automated Machine Learning (ZAML) – to better assess decisions on loan portfolios; which in response increases revenue, reduces risk, and automates highly regulated compliance measures within fin-tech. 

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