Principled Technologies (PT) is looking for candidates for a full-time graphic designer position. The person we’re seeking is:
An excellent, detail-oriented designer with experience in graphic design and a big appetite for continuous learning.
Passionate about telling stories. Our most important goal is to effectively and memorably communicate our clients’, and our own, marketing messages to various specific target audiences.
Experienced in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign and InDesign/InCopy workflows. Note that experience with InDesign, particularly in designing multi-page layouts and using styles and parent pages, is a hard requirement. Other proficiencies should include:
- Creating and editing vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator
- Editing and compositing images in Adobe Photoshop
A self-starter with the ability to work on their own and collaboratively as part of a team.
Able to communicate clearly and work on multiple projects with tight deadlines.
Able to create single graphics as well as full campaigns, from concept to completion.
Able to execute within a variety of brand guidelines and templates, our clients’ and our own, in both marketing and e-learning contexts.
Interested in learning about technical topics in the pursuit of effectively communicating them visually.
Willing to work full-time, typical office hours, sometimes putting in the additional hours necessary to do the work at hand.
Willing to be flexible and adaptable in a changing, fluid, and nonbureaucratic environment.
As a bonus, it would be valuable to have experience in:
- Effectively utilizing AI tools for elements of your workflow (communication, brainstorming, etc.)
- UX design and web design
- Design for paid and native social media
- Motion graphics, video, and/or 3D
- Illustration, including character illustration
- Product photography and image editing
- Accessibility-focused design
- Data visualization and content-rich infographics
- Whitepapers, solution briefs, and other text-heavy documentation
- Designing for technology companies
We are open to hiring people in any stage of their careers; however, we anticipate that you may need several years of work experience to have most or all of the skills we describe above.
To be a good fit for this position, you should have a passion for great design with a solid understanding of the elements that contribute to it (e.g., typography, color theory, composition, animation, motion, storytelling, etc.) and an emphasis on marketing, corporate training, and branding. We want you to be engaged in the world around you—to keep up with the latest design and development technologies, as well as marketing and branding strategies.
We have lofty goals: We want to produce the best work in the world. If you come onboard, you’ll be signing up for those goals, so you should want to produce work that is great, not just good enough. This job requires strong communication and organization skills, as well as acute attention to detail. We all work together, so you have to be comfortable providing—and receiving—feedback and encouragement to and from other members of the team. (And it’s a big and diverse team, including writers, graphic designers, developers, instructional designers, videographers, photographers, audio engineers, subject matter experts, and more.)
At PT, our philosophy is that we’re all in it together. We don’t have job titles, and we collaborate every day to help create the best work possible. If you want to do great work; learn something new every day; and be part of a world-class, growing team—let’s talk.
Most of our team works remotely, with occasional gatherings in our office in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina; anyone is welcome to work in our office at any time. We would prefer to hire candidates near our office in Durham. That said, we will also consider exceptional candidates who are located elsewhere in North Carolina and/or in the states of Pennsylvania, Oregon, or Georgia. We will not relocate candidates for this opening.
To apply, please send a resume, cover letter, and portfolio to jobs@principledtechnologies.com. We will not review applications that do not include a portfolio or a link to a portfolio.
Please note: We are aware that fraudulent postings are common. We will contact you only from our corporate email account ending in principledtechnologies.com and never from a personal one, such as Gmail.
Who we are
Guided by the conviction that facts matter, Principled Technologies (PT) provides industry-leading technology assessment, fact-based marketing, and learning and development services. We assess products using both industry-standard tests and custom methods, and deliver the facts about products through a wide variety of media types and outlets.
We offer a flexible working culture designed to facilitate collaboration and encourage the best possible work. We believe that we are better able to meet our clients’ needs when our staff has the freedom of a productive and fulfilling work environment. We also offer a full set of world-class benefits, including a unique sabbatical program that encourages employees to give back to the community.
Principled Technologies is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) that considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ethnic origin, national origin, political affiliation class, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, HIV or AIDS status, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, citizenship, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
