Digital/UI Designer for a Social Impact Focused Design Agency

Radish Lab is a purpose-driven creative agency, shaping stories and sharpening brands for organizations improving the world. Right now we’re working with organizations developing innovative approaches to extreme poverty, creating a better world for refugees, and fighting climate change. We specialize in web design, strategy, and branding.  

We are looking for a Digital/UI Designer with a minimum of 6 years of professional experience, and an excellent eye for design, detail, and user experience, to join our growing team.

About You

You are passionate about helping to create a just and equitable world. You’re comfortable working within an iterative and collaborative process. You have an intentional, holistic, and systems-thinking approach to your work. You’re equally energized creating and crafting narratives around design concepts as well as providing the polishing details to design going out the door. You’ve got ideas, you find inspiration around you, and you’ve got your finger on the pulse of what’s awesome in design right now. You’re interested in a longer trajectory of learning and growing within an agency. Plus, you’ve got a sense of humor.

What You’ll Do

Design is at the core of the Radish Lab product. As a designer you will contribute to a variety of purpose-driven projects ranging from large-scale consumer-facing websites to branding and collateral work to campaigns, under the management of our Design Director with feedback and support from our Creative Director.

Location

Radish Lab is a remote agency. For this position, you must be within 3 hours of the EST timezone. At least 6 of your working hours must be within the hours of 7AM and 8PM EST. We do not offer sponsorship at this time.

About Radish

Radish Lab launched in 2012 to work on projects we believe in, with clients we click with. And today, we’re still invested in much more than just the end-product. We care about the people we work with and about the people our work impacts. Using collaboration, compassion, and creativity to solve problems at any scale, we deliver work that blends usability, aesthetics, and ethics.

In our approach to working with clients we are committed to working: With empathy, not ego. With them, not for them. With integrity, not just ideas.

Our Values

Radish Lab has five core values and we expect you to share them.

• EMPATHY helps us better understand what a project’s goals might really be, why a client’s work is so vital to the people they serve, and why a coworker might be having a bad day.

• CURIOSITY enables us to ask better questions, keeps us humble, and nurtures an adventurous spirit.

• KINDNESS sounds easy, like holding the door open for someone, but we try and hold ourselves to a higher bar. If you hold the door open for someone then support a system that oppresses them, is that truly kind?

• DIVERSITY. Asking who isn’t at the table is vital. Our work is better when we have a diverse team, client contacts, and stakeholders.

• CAMARADERIE. Having genuinely good working relationships with our colleagues makes our days more enjoyable, and makes our work better.

Selected Clients

The New York Community Trust, Women’s Refugee Commission, (RED) - The Global Fund to Fight Aids, American Cancer Society, UNICEF, and BRAC.

B Corp

Radish Lab is a certified B Corp, which means we’re held accountable for meeting the highest standards of overall social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Radish Lab is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

No recruiters, please.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience, preferably in an agency

• Expert-level Figma skills including components, variables, styles, and auto-layout 

• Strong understanding of design systems 

• Experience collaborating with strategists, user-experience designers and developers 

• Experience handing off final products to developers 

• We are only considering applicants within 3 hours of the EST timezone

• See below for more requirements and nice-to-haves 

Responsibilities

Concept

• Conduct design research and collect references based on a brief, and bring extra ideas to the table from your research.

• Concept solutions from a brief that apply unique and creative thinking.

• Craft a narrative and provide rationale around creative decisions that can be presented written or orally with supporting visuals to teammates and to external teams with assistance.

• Filter and incorporate creative feedback

Craft

• Create thorough, polished, and thoughtful design prototypes that build on the agreed creative direction and use best practices including rules of typography, layout, and accessible web design.

• Use art direction, basic interaction, and copy editing skills to create mockups and/or suggest improvements.

• Use systems thinking to identify outside factors, unknowns, technical constraints, future maintainability, and edge cases that can impact a user interface.

• Prepare production-ready files with annotations and specifications outlined in Radish’s design process.

• Provide review on design projects including creative QA for web, press checks, and answering technical questions.

• Occasionally present concepts to clients when necessary.

• Strong attention to detail (You catch the missing period in the mock-up.)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (You ask good questions early.)

Collaboration

• Take direction from teammates regarding organizing and prioritizing work on a weekly basis.

• Be self sufficient and accountable in daily tasks and time management, and  ask for help when roadblocks and challenges arise.

• Ask questions to gain clarity and understanding of a project.

• Participate in giving actionable design feedback in internal meetings and reviews that builds on the brief and follows best practices.

• A demonstrated commitment to social change in a professional or personal context.

• A genuine desire to work with a team of kind, empathetic, and curious people looking to create thoughtful and meaningful work, while also having fun.

Nice to Have

• Experience working with nonprofits, on a small team or prior agency work is preferred, but not a requirement.

• Experience presenting to stakeholders or clients