Upbound is cloud native computing startup that empowers organizations to run, scale and optimize their services across multiple public and private cloud environments. Our growing team is on a mission to free cloud-computing from the grip of a few proprietary cloud vendors. We are passionate about building world-class developer and enterprise experiences in the cloud-computing space powered by open source.

Upbound is headquartered in Seattle and is hiring for roles on open source projects and commercial hosted offerings. 

Upbound is venture funded and backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures).

In this role, you can expect to be:

• Working with and expanding on brand guidelines to create layouts that reinforce the style and voice of the Upbound brand.
• Creating visual designs for the Upbound website. 
• Designing logos, ads for print and web, environmental graphics, trade-show booths, infographics, blog post graphics, social media graphics and presentations.
• Working with multiple projects while effectively managing timelines and expectations.
• Collaborating with our leadership to develop company communications and presentations.
• Collaborating with our product marketing experts to create effective and hyper-targeted marketing materials.
• Working directly with the product design team to integrate on-brand visual designs into the product user experience where needed.
• Working with marketing and product design teams to sketch and wireframe design concepts in a fast paced collaborative environment.
• Explaining and discussing design decisions eloquently, and give thoughtful design feedback.
• Helping marketing and product solidify the brand strategy and educating people on how to build designs that are rooted in that strategy.

You are a good fit if:

• You have 5+ years of recent, visual design or equivalent, in a fast-paced environment.
• You’ve designed or scaled brands and their visual identities from the ground up. 
• You have a good understanding of HTML and CSS which helps support your design decisions for web.
• You have a rock solid foundation in typography, layout and design with the portfolio that shows it.
• You love using iconography to help reinforce a story, even highly technical at times. Even better if a majority of this iconography you have used was created exclusively by yourself and not purchased.
• You have the ability to effectively take direction and work both collaboratively and autonomously.
• You have experience collaborating with both product design and marketing teams to visually tell a story.
• You’re someone who has built or maintained multiple brand styles with distinct look and feel.
• You thrive in team settings and have a willingness to help others.

Would be excellent if:

• You have experience working in a startup environment.
• You’ve worked in an agency environment where you have needed to create designs for multiple brand strategies and clients. 
• You have experience with creating illustrations that reinforce the brands story. Not just sketches in a notebook, but high quality illustrations with a consistent look and feel that support the brand messaging. 
• You have experience crafting copy to help reinforce your visual story.
• You have experience using motion to help add depth to your designs. 

We encourage all applicants to write a cover letter describing why you're interested in working at Upbound, what draws you to this role, and how you think you can help our cause. If you don’t meet all the criteria but still think you’d be a good fit for the team, please tell us about yourself.

At Upbound, we are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We realize that our industry has a poor track record when it comes to diversity and we hope to do our part to fix that.

Come join our team as we embark on a new era of open cloud-computing.