Production Designer - Contractor

Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden relationships and patterns across billions of data connections deeply, easily and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.

At Neo4j, we’re proud to be building the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers, helping them cure diseases, fight fraud, crush pandemics, and accomplish their most ambitious missions—even if it’s getting humans to Mars. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us @Neo4j.

At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.

As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.

About Neo4j Brand & Creative Services (BCS)

Within Corporate Marketing, the Brand & Creative Services team mission is to clearly and compellingly communicate the power of graph technology to the world. Our team (comprised of a brand director, 2 brand designers, 4 production designers, a presentation designer and a videographer) are committed to:

• Create a collaborative environment where tech, business and creative minds merge
• Uncover the why and optimize the how of every project to achieve customer-first creativity
• Strategic balancing of short-term needs with long-term brand building
• Deliver impact through creative business solutions every single day

Roles & Responsibilities

Brand & Creative Services is seeking a self-driven production designer to join us as a full-time contractor on our team, ready to roll up their sleeves and help change the world by directly supporting the growth of our developer-first brand! We are looking for a highly organized, creative, and thoughtful team player, eager to drive business impact. A creative problem solver who is deadline-driven and solutions oriented, you will:

• Support the design team in the execution of various creative requests from internal teams like Field Marketing, Product Marketing, People, Comms & Developer Relations
• Creative requests include everything from 1- (primary focus) developing eye-catching event booth designs to 2- (secondary focus) custom swag, engaging social posts and lead nurture emails, solution sheet layouts & beyond
• Provide a thoughtful point of view on why creative decisions were made, helping to support requester education through creative recommendations that are aligned to our brand guidelines, digital best practices and global accessibility principles
• Clear communication on design process, status of ongoing projects and able to articulate inspiration + feedback in an effective and inclusive way
• Communicate the status of projects with requesters from intake to delivery
• Adhere and maintain file organization using prescriptive taxonomy and regularly updated project archives for creative team and cross functional partners
• Be solutions oriented, identifying the opportunities and forging a path forward with resolve
• Demonstrate cultural awareness and sensitivity for all markets and audiences served
• Maintain positive and professional relationships with designers across our global org, including designers on our Web/ UX, Product and PR/ Social Design Teams
• Participate in departmental and BCS team meetings and ongoing collaboration across virtual communication platforms

Skill Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or advanced degree in Graphic Design or other related areas from an Arts College, accredited University or commensurate work experience
• Minimum 3 years of combined experience in B2B design services
• Experience in tech preferred
• Comfortable with production creative development processes, standards and specs
• Creative thinker with an ability to infuse business needs into design solutions
• NEED TO HAVE proficiency in Figma, Canva and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• NICE TO HAVE “bonus” capabilities in Adobe After Effects, other video / motion / 3D / animation tools
• Experience with project management tools (like Asana) and virtual collaboration platforms (like Slack, Zoom, Google Drive/ Slides/ Docs, etc.)
• Use visual design, creative ideation, compositional sensibilities, typographic rules, and user journey optimization to translate creative concepts into materials for our internal teams and external existing/ prospective customers
• Confidence presenting creative ideas and concepts in a compelling manner
• Eager to learn and grow in a dynamic environment on our dedicated team
• Moderate proficiency in written and spoken English

Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database in the world. We have customers in every industry across the globe, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j.

• Neo4j is one of the fastest scaling technology companies in this industry. Well over $100M ARR and still rapidly growing.
• Raised biggest round of funding in all of database history ($325M Series F).
• Backed by world class investors like Google Ventures (GV), Neo4j has raised over $582M in funding and is currently valued at $2Bn. This puts them among the most well-funded database companies in history.
• 75% of Fortune 100 use Neo4j with more than 800 enterprise customers including Comcast, eBay, Adobe, Lyft, UBS, IBM, Volvo Cars and many more.
• Emil Eifrem (CEO) has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation and customer success.
• Countless awards in the industry. Massive Enterprises and individual developers/ data scientists love Neo4j. Strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
• A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact Study pegged Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.

Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all of the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.

One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.

Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:

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