At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
The Lyft Creative team is looking for an experienced senior level Designer with a background in digital design and illustration. You’re a proactive problem-solver and a natural collaborator. You’re comfortable developing and iterating on a wide range of ideas from brainstorming and sketching through execution and refinement. Ideally, you geek out equally on design and data, and you're eager to optimize towards higher performance. You have a fine-tuned aesthetic, insights on current trends, can provide subject matter expertise, and implement best practices for engaging design. You want to push the limits and go beyond the expected — which means we’re on the same page.
Responsibilities:
- Lead design and development of engagement campaigns, including emails, landing pages, social and blog assets, and more.
- Work cross-functionally with marketers, creatives, developers, and other stakeholders across Lyft to meet business goals and ensure designs implemented align with company’s initiatives
- Mentor and oversee the work of junior designers and external agency partners
- Support Lyft’s Transit, Bikes, and Scooters creative team
- Research and implement best practices for various channels including web, email, and social, while maintaining the brand visual aesthetic
- Solve end-to-end visual problems with a creative eye
Experience:
- Minimum 5-7 years related work experience at a design studio, agency or in-house design department
- Portfolio showing a range of work across various digital mediums, including web and email design, and other channels.
- Understanding of design decisions based on performance metrics
- Experience with responsive, mobile-first design
- Experience working on CRM/lifecycle campaigns
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, short sprint environment
- Experience working with cross-functional teams, creative colleagues, and project managers
- Understanding of current cultural trends in design, music, fashion and tech
- Proficiency in Figma & Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop primarily)
- Illustration skills a plus
- You should be a Lyft user/believer :)
Benefits:
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Lyft is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or prohibited by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Lyft will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.