[Hiring] Senior Visual Communication Designer @Playlab

Role Description

At Playlab, we believe that AI is a new design material, one that should be shaped by many. The next decade of education will be defined by who gets to design how intelligent systems are developed for and deployed in education. Most AI products cast teachers and students as end users, receiving outputs from a system someone else designed. We're building an alternative: educators as the designers of AI systems, and of how they and their students interact with them. Your role is to help carry this idea into the world in deep partnership with our community.

As Senior Visual Communication Designer, you'll own the design of how Playlab shows up in the world, from concept through produced work. Your contributions might take the form of:

• Brand expression
• Storytelling
• Data and information
• Motion
• Interface
• Print

Your work has a clear point of view, is pertinent, and production-grade. You take it all the way to done, prepping and shipping final assets across formats as reusable systems. You have good instincts for when to ship fast to keep us learning, and when to slow down for things that need more care.

You form well-reasoned points of view on how Playlab should tell its story, because you stay close to the people we're trying to reach and the ideas we're trying to land. You turn complex systems and ideas into narratives and visuals that are intuitive, engaging, and true to their depth. You can hold unresolved questions and keep moving through the ambiguity.

Given a fuzzy goal or problem, you can define the space, gather the right context, and drive it through iteration to shipped work. You think ahead to dependencies, edge cases, and second-order questions. You proactively bring leadership along to validate decisions as you build.

You're very comfortable with print, web, and motion to bring an idea to life. You build with and on AI. You use it as a creative material and stay current with where it's heading, and you build or curate the tooling and workflows that let you work faster.

You bring a distinct visual voice and a clear, articulable point of view on what makes something good across visual, interaction, and communication design, including the restraint to know when a rough edge serves the work better.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience with a strong foundation in graphic design
• A home base in visual communication (brand, editorial, campaign, web)
• A track record in one or more other design disciplines
• Ability to lead design on the projects you own while collaborating closely across the team
• Broad knowledge of creative tools and workflows, including those that leverage AI
• Care about learning and enjoy spending time in learning environments and with the people who create them (teachers, students, school leaders, etc.)
• Strong production skills: fast and exacting at taking files to production

Requirements

• Experience in education or building in edtech (bonus)
• Experience with designing creative tech (bonus)
• A love for creative side quests (bonus)

Note

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification listed in this job post. Research shows that people from underrepresented groups are more likely to experience imposter syndrome and to doubt the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to count yourself out. We're building toward equitable futures where AI reflects the full range of people who learn and teach with it. We hold ourselves to that same standard in who we bring onto the team. If this work speaks to you, we'd like to hear from you.