Growth Designer

Company Name: Toptal
Location: Germany

About Toptal

Job Description

Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on-demand. With $200+ million in annual revenue and over 40% year-over-year growth, Toptal is the largest fully distributed workforce in the world.

We take the best elements of virtual teams and combine them with a support structure that encourages innovation, social interaction, and fun (see this video from The Huffington Post). We see no borders, move at a fast pace, and are never afraid to break the mold.

Position Description

As a Growth Designer at Toptal, you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact among a group of highly collaborative and smart colleagues who deeply value innovation and quality. You will work closely with our Growth Marketing Team to work on client centric projects. Growth Design at Toptal is about visual design, interaction design, product design, UX research and user experience. You will have access to in-house developers and illustrators, providing opportunities to further expand your collaboration skills. You will design and produce a range of branded experiences, from landing pages, case-studies, experimental projects to product design. You’ll also work with our talented PMs on optimization and SEO.

This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere, though preference is for European or EST timezone. All communication and resumes must be submitted in English.

Responsibilities

• Create stunning landing pages and infographics that tell our stories.
• Design advertising campaigns with our Enterprise team.
• Champion for design in a cross-functional team.
• Conduct user research and usability testing.
• Define experiments with Growth PMs as part of the design process.
• Be data-driven when it comes to design. Convert quantitative and qualitative data into design deliverables.
• Ensure the experience for our users is high quality and consistently improving.
• Collaborate closely with Growth PMs and stakeholders.

In The First Week You Will

• Onboard and integrate into Toptal - meet with the teams and people you will have long-term working relationships with.
• Meet the Design Team.
• Meet with VP of Design to learn about our design process and guidelines.
• Work closely with the Growth Marketing team to understand our goals and vision for toptal.com.

In The First Month You Will

• Ensure you are fully integrated with the design team.
• Collaborate with Growth Marketers and PMs to understand opportunities for improvement.
• Take the design lead on a Growth-led initiative to optimize a component of toptal.com.
• Feel confident in fully self-managing your workload.

In The First Three Months You Will

• Generate and share ideas for improving the design process.
• Understand the roadmap for growth projects and know who to reach out to as you take ownership of key projects.

In The First Six Months You Will

• Be the go-to person for design decisions related to your growth projects.

In The First Year You Will

• Have delivered a consistent body of design work.
• Developed a reputation for being a creative thinker and a thorough design researcher.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional design experience beyond university.
• Stunning portfolio of visual and product design work.
• Able to formulate a design vision but break it down into small iterative steps.
• Strong expertise across visual, product, interaction, and UX design.
• UX research and usability testing experience.
• You have worked in an agile squad before, working with engineers and PMs on a daily basis.
• You have worked on websites, ideally for B2B businesses and/or marketplaces, not purely tech products.
• Strong communication skills, i.e. clear, assertive, helpful, good listener.
• Ability to collaborate, brainstorm and problem solve within a group.
• Ability to take graciously take direction and accept feedback.
• You must be a self-starter with initiative, creativity, and drive.
• Ownership. You take responsibility for your deliverables.
• Quality. You take pride in everything you deliver as a reflection of yourself.
• You must be highly detail-oriented.
• Ability to communicate clearly and constantly with teams via Slack and other collaboration tools.
• You must have outstanding written and verbal communication skills, as well as perfect grammar and command of the English language.
• You must be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
• Knowledge or experience of web technologies such as JavaScript and HTML is a plus.
• You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.

For Toptal Use Only: #midwest #ussouth #northeast #uk #individualcontributorEurope #toronto #europe

• Seniority level

  Entry level

• Employment type

  Full-time

• Job function

  Art/CreativeDesign

• Industries

  Internet