Senior Visual Designer

Description

• Redesign and unify all customer-facing materials: Decks, brochures, templates, website pages, banners, and event assets; Ensuring every touchpoint expresses Neara’s premium identity.
• Deliver a prioritised backlog of high-impact visual improvements and implement a plan for uplifting the most impactful screens (e.g., Login, Onboarding, Home).
• Collaborate with Product Designers, Engineers, and PMs to ensure visual polish enhances clarity, usability, and intuitive interaction.
• Help set the stage for future growth of the visual design function, with the potential to shape and mentor a supporting team as Neara scales.
• Create powerful visuals that communicate Neara’s physics-based, 3D spatial modelling and platform differentiators across channels.
• Build strong relationships across teams, balancing dual streams of work and influencing stakeholders through high-quality execution.
• Own the aesthetic layer of the Figma design system, refining hierarchy, colour, typography, spacing, motion, and interaction states.
• Provide ongoing visual design support for campaigns, events, category launches, and other time-sensitive initiatives.
• Establish consistency and excellence across all channels by setting, documenting, and championing premium visual standards.
• Translate complex UI states into elegant, marketing-ready visuals for use in campaigns, paid media, and key moments.
• Deliver early “quick wins” that demonstrate immediate value while laying the foundation for long-term design systems and scalable assets.
• Partner with Marketing to refresh the public website’s visual language, elevating clarity, sophistication, and overall brand perception.
• Lead the visual evolution of the Neara platform by auditing and refining key screens, flows, and components to deliver a premium, cohesive aesthetic.
• Build and maintain a scalable master marketing template library across formats, including Ceros for landing pages and web content, and Google Slides for sales and marketing decks.
• Serve as Neara’s trusted visual design authority across both Product and Marketing; Guiding teams on aesthetics, interaction design, motion, and brand execution.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills — able to articulate design decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to translate complex product/UI states into compelling marketing visuals for websites, ads, and campaigns.
• Familiarity with brand systems, brand architecture, or brand strategy.
• Exposure to category-launch creative or complex cross-channel campaigns.
• Comfort working across both Product and Marketing streams, managing multiple priorities with autonomy and accountability.
• Experience collaborating within agile product teams, shipping production-ready UI design and working closely with engineers, PMs, and product designers.
• Experience with Ceros (or ability to upskill quickly).
• Adaptable: Balances multiple streams of work and navigates changing priorities with ease.
• 5+ years in digital, visual, UI, or product design roles within SaaS or technology environments.
• Experience designing for mobile applications.
• Energetic & Entrepreneurial: Thrives in a fast moving environment and is motivated by building, not maintaining.
• Experience with motion design tools such as Rive, Lottie, or Protopie.
• Experience designing for 3D, spatial modelling, or physics-based products.
• Detail Obsessed: Deep appreciation for craft, polish, and premium visual quality.
• Highly meritocratic, non-bureaucratic, and no-ego work culture.
• Expert proficiency in Figma, with strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator).
• Strong understanding of visual hierarchy, typography, colour, spacing, interactions, and motion.
• Collaborative & Low Ego: Works fluidly across teams and values feedback.

Benefits

• A strong, diverse portfolio showcasing exceptional visual craft across both: complex product UI and high-end marketing/communications collateral (decks, brochures, websites, campaigns).
• Flexible working arrangements with a well-stocked office in Redfern.
• The opportunity to work on complex, meaningful products and real-world problems.
• Competitive salary + ESOP. Significant career development and growth opportunities.
• The opportunity to play a direct, critical role in the trajectory of a high growth company.

Training + Development

Interview process

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