Senior Visual Designer

at Superhuman

Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

Superhuman offers a dynamic hub-based hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Superhuman

Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com.

The opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a curious, energetic, and craft-caring Senior Visual Designer to join our Growth Design team. The Growth Design team optimizes and re-invests the customer journey from discovery to long-term engagement, from the moment a user discovers us through web, social or their organization, to in-product onboarding, upgrading their experience, and continuously engaging with us over time. In this role, you’ll create high-quality graphics, animations, and other visual assets and elements that enhance our customers’ whole end-to-end experience. You’ll collaborate with a fun, diverse team of talented growth experts to develop concepts and assets for a variety of digital touchpoints, including websites, in-product onboarding experiences, lifecycle marketing moments, paywalls and preview experiences, new feature moments, and personalization surfaces. Your expertise and eye for detail in typography, color theory, graphic design, and layout will be essential in ensuring our customer journeys are meaningful, clear, educational, and inspiring, especially as Superhuman grows toward its multi-product future.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the design and execution of visual assets for web and mobile product experiences, product experiments, and growth design materials.
Develop and refine processes for intake, partnership, and visual asset production, and partner with Design Operations to socialize and scale systems
Collaborate with product managers, developers, marketers, and other stakeholders to deliver cohesive and impactful design solutions, and advocate for high-quality design standards
Partner closely with product and content designers, motivating a culture of creativity, communication excellence, and visual support
Incorporate data-driven insights and stakeholder feedback to iterate on and improve designs
Create moments of user delight and personality. Storyboard and imagine how static and motion elements enhance user engagement
Partner with the Design Foundations and Brand Creative teams to develop, maintain, and advocate for design systems, style guides, and brand standards at the individual product and company level
Ensure visual consistency and brand alignment across user touchpoints. Share visual insights from growth experiments with Design partner teams to foster collective knowledge building
Stay up to date with industry trends, tools, and best practices to drive innovation and best-in-class craft.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
4+ years of professional experience as a visual designer or in a similar design role.
Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and modern design tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch).
Strong portfolio showcasing a breadth of visual design projects, graphic design production, visual systems, communication design, and creative problem-solving.
Excellent communication, presentation, and collaboration skills.
Exceptional attention to detail and organizational abilities.
Proven ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Has a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal guidance, proactively manages tasks and priorities across multiple projects, analyzes and executes work efficiently, collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, and thrives in fast-paced, results-driven environments.

Preferred:

Experience with motion graphics or product animation. Curiosity and hunger to learn and deepen product motion skills.
Familiarity with UX/UI principles and web accessibility standards.
Experience working in cross-functional and agile teams.

Compensation and benefits

Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more:

Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
Disability and life insurance options
401(k) and RRSP matching
Paid parental leave
20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Superhuman takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations. In Canada, all locations where we support employment are considered “Zone 1”.

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and maybe modified in the future.

Zone 1: $ 171,000 - $235,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Superhuman is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

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