2D Designer

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a 2D Designer based in United States.** Join a creative, community-driven digital environment where immersive social experiences, virtual worlds, and user-generated content come together. As a 2D Designer, you will create polished, engaging visuals across storefronts, marketing campaigns, in-app promotions, and virtual environments. Your work will help showcase digital products, strengthen visual storytelling, and enhance the experience of users exploring a vibrant social VR platform. You will design everything from product thumbnails and promotional banners to social media graphics, event signage, and in-world textures. The role requires a versatile creative approach, combining strong visual design skills with an understanding of how graphics perform across different sizes, formats, and interfaces. Working collaboratively with a distributed team, you will respond to feedback, adapt to evolving priorities, and deliver high-quality assets within established brand guidelines. This is an excellent opportunity for a resourceful designer who enjoys variety, values attention to detail, and wants to contribute to a growing digital community through impactful visual communication. ### Accountabilities - **Storefront design:** Create compelling thumbnails and graphics for digital store listings, ensuring products are visually appealing, easy to understand, and recognizable at small sizes. - **Bundle graphics and visual identity:** Design promotional graphics for product bundles, clearly communicating included items while maintaining strong visual appeal. Develop distinct themes for each bundle, including backgrounds, navigation icons, and mobile-friendly variations that remain consistent with the overall storefront identity. - **Marketing and promotional assets:** Produce engaging social media posts, announcement graphics, blog headers, and other marketing materials that support campaigns, product updates, and community initiatives. - **Video graphics:** Design static visual assets for video content, including title cards, overlays, and end screens, ensuring consistency with established branding and communication objectives. - **Platform-specific creative production:** Prepare and export graphics for distribution platforms such as Steam and Meta, adapting each asset to the relevant dimensions, file formats, and technical specifications. - **In-app visual design:** Create banners for events and promotions, notification graphics, and other in-app visuals that integrate naturally with the user interface and remain legible at smaller display sizes. - **In-world artwork:** Develop signage, posters, textures, and other 2D assets used within virtual worlds, helping create visually engaging and immersive user experiences. - **Brand consistency and creative execution:** Work within established visual guidelines while giving individual assets their own distinctive character, ensuring a cohesive yet varied visual identity across different touchpoints. - **Multi-format adaptation:** Optimize designs for different screen sizes, layouts, and contexts, including mobile devices, storefronts, social channels, and in-app interfaces. - **Feedback and iteration:** Collaborate with stakeholders, incorporate feedback efficiently, and refine designs through quick review cycles while adapting to changing priorities and deadlines. - **Asset organization and delivery:** Maintain clean, well-organized working files, consistent naming conventions, and properly layered source documents to support efficient collaboration and future updates. ## Requirements - A strong portfolio demonstrating a range of 2D design work, ideally including marketing graphics, user interface assets, storefront visuals, or digital product promotions. - Proven experience creating graphics for multiple formats and display sizes, particularly thumbnails, icons, banners, and mobile layouts. - Strong proficiency in industry-standard design tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Figma, or comparable creative software. - A solid understanding of visual hierarchy, typography, composition, color, and branding, with the ability to create polished, high-impact graphics for different audiences and contexts. - Experience working within an existing brand identity while developing creative variations that give individual campaigns, products, or collections a distinctive look. - Familiarity with preparing and exporting assets according to platform-specific technical requirements, including file formats, dimensions, and resolution specifications. - The ability to design for small-scale displays, ensuring that graphics remain clear, legible, and visually effective when viewed within compact interfaces. - Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to understand creative briefs, respond constructively to feedback, and work through rapid revision cycles. - Flexibility and adaptability when managing changing priorities, multiple types of creative deliverables, and short turnaround times. - Excellent file management practices, including organized project folders, consistent naming conventions, and properly layered, editable source files. - A detail-oriented approach and a commitment to maintaining high visual quality and consistency across all deliverables. - The ability to work independently in a remote environment while coordinating effectively with a distributed creative team. **Nice to have** - Familiarity with social VR platforms, virtual communities, or user-generated virtual environments. - Experience creating textures or other 2D assets for real-time 3D applications, particularly projects built with Unity. - An understanding of how visual assets contribute to digital storefront conversion, community engagement, and immersive user experiences. - Experience supporting digital product launches, online campaigns, or event-based promotional activities. ## Benefits - **Fully remote work:** Work remotely from Anywhere, with flexibility to organize your work within agreed project timelines and deliverables. - **Part-time engagement:** A contract opportunity suited to a designer seeking a flexible, project-based workload. - **Creative variety:** Work across storefront graphics, marketing campaigns, social media, in-app promotions, and virtual-world artwork. - **Portfolio development:** Build a diverse body of work spanning digital product design, marketing communication, interface graphics, and immersive environments. - **Creative ownership:** Contribute original ideas and distinctive visual treatments while working within an established brand identity. - **Collaborative environment:** Work with a creative, distributed team that values collaboration, feedback, and contributions from different perspectives. - **Fast-paced creative experience:** Develop your ability to deliver polished assets through iterative design processes and changing project priorities. - **Exposure to social VR:** Gain experience creating visual assets for a platform centered on virtual worlds, digital communities, and user-generated experiences. - **Flexible contract arrangement:** Provide your weekly availability and proposed hourly rate as part of your application. - **Inclusive workplace culture:** Join an equal-opportunity environment that welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds and encourages creative participation. **Additional application information** - **Contract duration:** The assignment is expected to run through the end of the year. - **Required application materials:** Submit your application with a portfolio showcasing relevant design work. - **Availability and compensation:** Include your weekly availability and proposed hourly rate. - **Verification:** Any offer is subject to preliminary identity checks, satisfactory references, and background checks.