Description:

L+R is an innovation consultancy and design studio. We were launched to make bold ideas a reality. We are designers and thinkers, motivated by our insatiable desire to make life simpler, more beautiful, and more enjoyable. Since 2012, L+R has been creating value for those daring to revolutionize their processes, technologies, and customer experience. Our clients span industries and platforms, and we work closely with them to create, develop, and enhance their products and services; in short, we turn great ideas into efficient actions and beautiful experiences. With offices in Brooklyn, Barcelona, and LA, L+R is an agile team of passionate designers and engineers making an impact.

We are motivated by our desire to build products with economic, social, environmental, emotional, or physical benefits. Technology has a critical role in shaping society and we are guided by a commitment to responsible innovation. From the beginning, we’ve always believed that the most barrier-breaking solutions come from a deep trust in the design process, and that true impact happens when everyone at the table is operating from the place where strategy meets aesthetics. We strive every day to make truly great digital products that encompass that belief.

L+R is looking for a Design Fellow to join its team and lead with this same understanding. Interested? Keep reading…

What you’ll do:

At L+R we care deeply about the visual arts. It’s been ingrained in our DNA since day one. At L+R, our core mission revolves around building innovative and impactful products and services. To help communicate this, we create visually exciting and inspiring stories to share with the world. Since L+R is a creative organization that works across many different industries, the range of our visual work is equally rich in diversity. As a Design Fellow, you will be responsible for supporting the strategy, design and production of promotional advertisements, interactions, merchandise, artworks and commercials to communicate L+R’s mission, products, features and achievements to the world.

Some specifics:

Create

• Support the development of beautiful, communicative, and functional branding systems, logos, graphics, and digital products
• Design striking branded merchandise across a range of executions
• Design and print promotional posters, banners and wall stickers
• Illustrate typography, patterns, 3D renderings, graffiti and patterns

Collaborate

• Support design team providing feedback in reviews, and contributing to strategic brainstorm sessions
• Iterate on existing designs, applying systems in innovative ways
• Execute designs developed by lead designer for client projects

Contribute

• Actively participate in team-based product brainstorming sessions
• Add high value to sprint meetings, driving design direction
• Provide and solicit honest, meaningful feedback to/from your L+R team members
• Take agency to find and fix errors in L+R’s design process

Who you are:

When you aren’t designing for work, you’re designing for fun and/or nerding out about the latest re-brand — and you’re doing other stuff for fun, because all work and no play makes…well, you know the rest.

You have a deep appreciation for graphic design and the creative process, as well as an innate ability to lead and build relationships with teammates. You know what it takes to build something incredible, and you know how to bring out others’ unique skills to get there.

Also, you can also have or can demonstrate:

• Competency at both front end development, as well as illustration
• Strong foundational knowledge of code for micro sites, screensavers and connected devices
• Experience building and shipping different categories of products
• Foundational knowledge of engineering systems and product design
• A URL that features detailed examples of your product design portfolio
• Excellent communication skills, with English as your first language
• The ability to think at a high level regarding graphic design and vision
• Exceptional time management skills – compared to other people, you take half the time and are twice as good
• Excitement about proactively contributing value to this organization
• Passion for important issues that you want to be a part of
• A sense of humor, and complex knowledge of at least one obscure topic (ex: you’re a topiary buff)

What we offer:

• Stipend for this position: $600/week OR course credit
• Educational stipend to continue improving your skills, 2k/year
• 4 day work week option (while pilot is active)
• Bike and pet friendly office at our NYC or BCN headquarters
• Free snacks and drinks at the office when you need them

Job Application Link: https://levinriegner.com/careers/