Senior Art Director

The self-employed workforce is a rapidly growing, resilient, and colorful 60 million Americans. But self-employment comes with its own set of challenges: navigating taxes, accounting, bookkeeping, and business banking are just a few. That’s where we come in.

Found is building tools that give self-employed people the security and peace of mind that has historically only been possible at big corporations. We’re a business bank account that automates taxes and expense tracking because we believe small business owners should spend more time doing what they love and less time on their business finances.

We’re looking for kind, resourceful, and passionate people to join us in building the safety net for self-employment.

About the role

Thanks for your interest in Found! We’re seeking an art director who can shape and evolve our voice across all touchpoints, from our customers’ first encounter with Found, to deep into their relationship with Found. We build intuitive and beautiful products to enable our self-employed customers to focus on doing what they do best — running their businesses, and we need you to help reach and nurture them along their journey.

The design team collaborates closely with product, engineering, and marketing teams on everything from user experience to visual design to creating scalable design systems. You’ll help steer the team to ensure a consistent and relevant voice throughout the journey, and jump in yourself with concepting, designing, and producing best-in-class work that elevates Found.

We’re looking for team members who believe that financial services don’t have to be ugly and scary but instead can be clean, clear, and enjoyable to use. As a member of our growing team, you’ll be directly responsible for building and shaping what we create.

Day to day you will:

• Design work for diverse projects, including brand and advertising campaigns and product launches across varied mediums (Web, interactive, motion, photography, and print).

• Create detailed, pixel-perfect mockups, prototypes, and assets; overseeing the art direction of key (in-house and external vendors) deliverables.

• Develop an iterative approach, pushing for continuous optimization, building and testing design solutions, and finding common ground between intuition and data.

• Expand our visual design systems to create a holistic approach to typography, color, patterns, layouts, and imagery, and consistently contribute to our design systems.

• Collaborate on the overall planning and strategy of programs with the marketing team.

• Communicate your ideas to cross-functional stakeholders, and articulate concepts and ideas clearly, engaging in healthy critique, and articulating the rationale behind your design decisions

• Manage and own small to medium-scale projects independently.

To thrive in this role, you have:

• 8+ years of experience and an outstanding brand design portfolio with examples of having led integrated brand and marketing projects from business need to concepts to execution

• A scientific approach. You love running experiments and learning. You don’t shy away from data or numbers, but use them to inform your designs moving forward.

• An informed hypothesis. You have experience creating designs for campaigns, landing pages, and multiple marketing channels and have successfully improved KPIs.

• Experience leading cross-functional projects and taking the brand and advertising projects from concept to execution

• Excellent communication skills. You feel at ease presenting your ideas, thoughts, decisions, and processes clearly and concisely, whomever the audience.

• A growth mindset. You’re not intimidated by the unknown. Instead, you welcome uncharted territory with open arms and an open mind. You are hungry and eager to dive into new projects and take ownership. 

• Strong proficiency with tools like Figma and Adobe CC

You may also have:

• Previous startup experience and demonstrated flexibility, initiative, and founder-focused mentality necessary to be successful in a startup environment.

• Motion/animation design experience.

• Experience or interest in financial services and self-employment.

• Passion for learning and growing as a designer and team member.

Compensation at Found 

The anticipated salary range for this role is $158,000 - $182,000. The salary range listed represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by several factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Our competitive base salary is just a piece of Found’s total compensation package. Found offers a generous benefits package to all employees see our list below or check out found.com/careers to learn more!

#LI-DNI

Found is built by a team that comes from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, and we firmly believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are crucial to our success. As we grow, we’re searching for passionate and motivated team members who are excited to bring their skill set to the team and are ready to learn from others.

If you are looking for a role where you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution and great impact, we would love to hear from you!

• 401K, FSA, and Commuter Benefits: We offer all employees access to tax-efficient benefit options alongside competitive base compensation.

• Paid parental leave: Found supports employees through all stages of life, which is why new parents employed by Found qualify for 16 weeks of flexible parental leave.

• Health benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits and are always 100% covered for employees, 90% covered for dependents.

• Work anywhere: We have Found offices in SF and NYC. For team members who work outside those cities, Found also supports fully remote working.

• Meaningful equity: Everyone on our team should feel and act like an owner, which is why Found offers industry-competitive equity to all of our employees.

• Flexible vacation policy: Vacations, appointments, mental health days- take the time you need, whenever you need to with our flexible time-off policy

To learn more about our benefits or the team please go to found.com/careers.