Cooper visual designers are responsible for balancing usability with desirability—using color, style, type, icons, information design, and visual hierarchy to clarify data, indicate relationships, hint at behavior, and communicate about brand. In collaboration with interaction designers, design communicators and other team members, they:

• Conduct research that gives clients insight into their brand.
• Create a visual language strategy that achieves brand and user goals.
• Iteratively refine a visual system that supports the interaction that makes people want to spend time with the product, and that engineers can build.
• Present visual design work and rationale, helping clients assess the work based on the brand and persona goals rather than personal opinion.

We're looking for candidates with 3+ years doing visual design for digital products, ideally in a consulting environment. You’re a smart, collaborative, pragmatic consultant who’s all about solving visual design problems. You also:

• Have superb information and graphic design skills (and a Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or a closely related field).
• Understand interface and interaction design principles as they relate to Web sites, desktop applications, handheld devices, and environments.
• Understand branding as it relates to user experience.
• Combine the courage of your convictions with the willingness to ask for help, follow direction, and exchange constructive critique with peers.
• Communicate clearly about design, from delivering persuasive presentations to writing detailed style guides.
• Have a sharp wit and a manner that inspires trust and confidence in clients.
• Consistently deliver brilliant design on a deadline.
• Can crank out multiple unique stylistic approaches to a problem.
• Have a desire to keep learning throughout your career.
• Understand the capabilities and limitations of common GUI technologies.
• Are a master of common graphic design and Web design tools.

We like animators and print designers, but that’s not the job we’re hiring for. We’re looking for people who want to work full-time at our San Francisco office. We only occasionally use contractors.