Digital Designer
Silent Research Labs is a public goods organization focused on advancing web technology through cryptographic research, open source infrastructure, and ecosystem education. They support experimental applications built on novel cryptographic primitives such as zero-knowledge cryptography.
About Silent Research Labs
Silent Research Labs describes itself as a public goods organization improving the web. It supports ground-breaking research into experimental applications enabled by novel cryptographic primitives such as zero-knowledge cryptography, builds open source tools and infrastructure through transparent deployment of protocols, and drives education and ecosystem development by bringing developers, technologists, writers, and thinkers to the frontiers of decentralized application development through educational programs and community initiatives. The organization has incubated two projects, Stripchain and Silent Protocol, and is actively hiring for remote roles such as Growth Marketer, Legal Counsel, Digital Designer, Front End Developer, and Backend Engineer, emphasizing a culture of transparency, respect, remote work, and ownership-driven collaboration.
Skills
About the Role
You will be the glue between content, marketing, and dev teams, helping to create and build the brand. You'll visualize and design original ideas that bring simplicity and ease of use to complex design issues, acting as both a conceptual thinker and a skilled craftsperson who produces clean, focused, and inspiring work. You'll partner with conceptual creatives to develop new designs and ideas for digital campaigns, and you'll create marketing assets such as marketing collaterals, digital campaigns, posts, GIFs, brochures, illustrations, web collateral, and social media collateral to amplify social media presence. You'll ensure all visual communication is aligned with the brand while meeting usability and website standards, work in a fast-paced environment collaborating with the brand, marketing, and dev teams, build positive relationships with the team, and communicate on project status and updates. You'll also actively participate in brainstorming sessions to generate new design perspectives, ideas, and style guides for campaigns.
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on design experience with a strong portfolio of work
- Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite Figma and other graphic design/prototyping tools
- Motion design experience is a plus
- Webflow experience is a plus
- Ability to create storyboards wireframes and high-fidelity designs
- Ability to think creatively and critically about design problems
- Experience managing a high volume of designs in parallel
- Prior design experience with DeFi/NFT/FinTech projects is a plus
Responsibilities
- Visualize and design original ideas that bring simplicity and ease of use to complex design issues
- Act as a conceptual thinker and craftsperson producing design that is clean focused and inspiring
- Work with conceptual creatives to develop new designs and ideas for digital campaigns
- Create marketing assets such as marketing collaterals digital campaigns posts GIFs brochures illustrations web collateral and social media collateral
- Ensure all visual communication is aligned with the brand while meeting usability and website standards
- Work in a fast-paced environment collaborating with the brand marketing and dev teams
- Build positive relationships with the team and communicate on project status and updates
- Participate in brainstorming sessions to generate new design perspectives ideas and style guides for campaigns
Benefits
- Game nights, virtual celebrations, and work retreats
- Flexible time off policy
