Senior Visual Communication Designer

The role

The Senior Visual Communication Designer will own the design of how Playlab shows up in the world from concept through produced work. You will shape brand expression, storytelling, data, motion, interface, and print to make Playlab's ideas compelling to educators and funders.

What you will do

• Own the design of how Playlab shows up in the world from concept through produced work
• Craft brand expression, storytelling, data and information, motion, interface, and print
• Prep and ship final assets across formats as reusable systems
• Form well-reasoned points of view on how Playlab should tell its story
• Turn complex systems and ideas into intuitive and engaging narratives and visuals
• Define the space for fuzzy goals or problems and drive them through iteration to shipped work
• Build with and on AI using it as a creative material
• Build or curate tooling and workflows to work faster

Required qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience with a strong foundation in graphic design
• Home base in visual communication (brand, editorial, campaign, web)
• Track record in one or more other design disciplines
• Ability to lead design on projects while collaborating closely across the team
• Broad knowledge of creative tools and workflows, including those that leverage AI
• Ability to build or curate tooling to speed up work
• Ability to take files to production quickly and exactly

Nice to have

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

About the company

Playlab is a nonprofit building public infrastructure for educational AI. It enables a global community to create AI tools that reflect their needs and values.