Senior Graphic Designer

Company Overview Hello from Pinger! We’re a remote-first company headquartered in San Jose, California. Our market-leading communications apps, TextFree, Sideline, and Index, have been downloaded by hundreds of millions of iOS and Android users around the world. We’re profitable, growing, and having fun—and we’re looking for someone to join us! The Role Pinger is seeking a talented and curious Senior Graphic Designer to join our Marketing team.  You’ll work with our Marketing, Growth, and Social teams, combining strong design fundamentals, original creative thinking, and demonstrable, hands-on expertise with generative AI to support the production of static and motion Marketing assets that effectively communicate our brand narratives across Pinger’s web properties, social profiles, in-app campaigns, and paid acquisition channels. You’ll also help Pinger develop smarter, faster, and more responsible AI-enabled creative workflows. Responsibilities - Conceptualize and develop high-quality static and motion assets for our brands’ digital properties in an inspired and visually arresting manner, including: websites and landing pages, app stores, in-app communications for lifecycle marketing and paid acquisition, social media, and other marketing media. - Publish and update content in WordPress and support routine maintenance of marketing web properties. - Create visual and motion assets for lifecycle and paid acquisition efforts. - Create performance ads for YouTube, Meta platforms, and TikTok. - Create motion and video content for organic social use, with particular emphasis on YouTube, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels. - Adapt and resize ad/social creative for multiple dimensions, placements, markets, and file formats without compromising quality. - Manage multiple projects and priorities while consistently delivering accurate, production-ready assets on schedule. - Design with accessibility in mind, including legibility, hierarchy, color contrast, captions, and the needs of audiences across devices and platforms. - Use generative AI as an integral part of the creative workflow to explore concepts, develop visual directions, create and edit imagery, generate variations, and accelerate production. - Apply strong art direction and hands-on design craft to refine AI-assisted work, ensuring every final asset feels intentional, original, and consistent with Pinger’s brand standards. - Review AI-assisted work for visual artifacts, factual inaccuracies, bias, inappropriate representation, brand risk, and potential intellectual-property concerns before publication. - Build reusable prompts, reference libraries, templates, skills, and repeatable workflows that improve creative consistency and production efficiency across several departments. - Evaluate emerging AI tools and recommend practical additions to Pinger’s creative toolkit based on quality, controllability, workflow fit, security, and commercial-use considerations. - Follow company policies governing confidential information, customer data, intellectual property, model usage, representation, disclosure, and content provenance. - Present concepts and works in progress to stakeholders, explain creative decisions, receive feedback constructively, and translate that feedback into thoughtful final work. - Collaborate with Growth and Marketing partners to evaluate creative performance, identify patterns, and apply learnings to future concepts and iterations. Qualifications - 5+ years of professional graphic design experience, including a portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual exploration, brand design, website & landing page development, digital ad campaign work, and social media collateral. - A bachelor’s degree in graphic design, art, visual communication, or a related discipline or equivalent professional experience. - Experience designing marketing creative for consumer-facing mobile apps or subscription products. - Advanced proficiency with Figma and experience working within shared design systems, component libraries, and collaborative creative workflows. - Advanced proficiency with WordPress,  HTML/CSS, and web-content publishing, and familiarity with different WordPress themes, editors, and creative tools. - Advanced proficiency with AI creative tools or platforms, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Creatify, Midjourney, Runway, Adobe Firefly, Ideogram, Flux, and/or other comparable tools. - Demonstrable experience using generative AI in professional creative work—not only prompting, but also directing, evaluating, compositing, retouching, and refining outputs into production-quality assets. - A clear understanding of when AI improves a creative workflow—and when traditional design, illustration, photography, or production methods will produce a better result. - Proficiency with AI video, voice, audio, and/or avatar tools. - A commitment to responsible AI use, inclusive representation, accessibility, brand safety, and respect for intellectual property. - Strong visual judgment and exceptional attention to detail, including the ability to identify subtle inconsistencies and artifacts in both AI and designer-generated content. - Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. - Strong motion design and short-form video skills, including an understanding of pacing, sound, hooks, platform conventions, and visual storytelling. - Ability to move fluidly between divergent exploration and precise execution. - Experience receiving a creative brief, asking smart questions, presenting a rationale, and carrying work from early concept through final production. - Strong communication, presentation, organization, and project-management skills in a remote, cross-functional environment. - Curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to continuously learn and grow as creative tools and practices evolve. Nice to Have - Experience with the Kadence theme in WordPress - Experience with App Store and Google Play Store creative, including screenshots, preview videos, and creative testing. - Experience building AI-first creative production workflows. Compensation - $100k - 130k, commensurate with experience. This role is also eligible for a target annual bonus equal to 30% of base salary. Benefits We believe great work starts with a supportive environment at work and at home. Our benefits are designed to give you flexibility, financial security, peace of mind, and more time for what matters most. - Remote-first workplace—do your best work from wherever you thrive - Up to 30% bonus program that rewards your contributions and impact - Equity opportunities that let you share in the company’s success - 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents, plus company contributions to your HRA or HSA - Monthly pet insurance reimbursement because furry family members matter, too - Flexible Time Away policy to rest, recharge, and handle life’s important moments - 11 company holidays, plus additional wellness days throughout the year - Paid parental leave to welcome and care for a new family member - Home-office setup support and internet reimbursement Please submit a portfolio of your recent work with your resume. We'd especially like to see examples that demonstrate your creative process, including how you have used AI or other emerging tools to develop, refine or scale an idea. Clearly identify your individual contribution to collaborative projects and distinguish AI-assisted elements where relevant.  We're excited to meet you!