Sr. Brand Designer

Our healthcare system is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. Every year, over 50 million Americans suffer adverse financial consequences as a result of seeking care, from lower credit scores to garnished wages. The challenge is only getting worse, as high deductible health plans are the fastest growing plan design in the U.S.

Cedar’s mission is to leverage data science, smart product design and personalization to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Today, healthcare providers still engage with its consumers in a “one-size-fits-all” approach; and Cedar is excited to leverage consumer best practices to deliver a superior experience.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a company working to transform U.S. healthcare. As a Senior Designer on the Marketing Team, you will have the unique opportunity to define the organization’s visual and verbal expression in relation to our maturing ecosystem. You have the chops and desire to roll up your sleeves and bring dynamic designs to life for our core audience. We are not a typical marketing department within a health-tech company. We seek to lift design away from standard corporate messaging to communicate a bold and differentiated vision to the market.

Please include a link to your portfolio along with your resume.

Gain further insight into this opportunity by viewing this video featuring the hiring manager:
https://youtu.be/rvz2_js0e8A

Responsibilities

• Design for both in person and virtual events with external audiences, including stage design, signage, presentations, and other visual collateral.
• Design content such as logos, illustrations, animations, or other visual images for collateral including but not limited to websites, landing pages, social, email, digital presentation templates, videos, print enablement materials, and whitepapers.
• Work within our brand guidelines to create layouts that promote Cedar style and voice through all visual touch points. Captivate our B2B audience with design that elevates visual appearance and ensures both brand continuity and consistency.
• Own and manage various design project deadlines across multiple campaigns and projects.
• Communicate your design strategy and decisions clearly and effectively to the team, facilitating effective feedback discussions and managing expectations.
• Stay up to date with the latest design trends and best practices, with the ability to innovate and recommend/implement compelling, creative new design concepts accordingly.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on design experience, ideally in a creative agency or in-house design for a company. Prior experience working in a fast paced startup (plus). Prior experience working with a b2b audience and/or healthcare a plus.
• The ideal candidate lives, loves, and laughs Figma. Role will require strong technical acumen with the ability to use a variety of visual and audio design with strong skills graphic design and video editing tools. Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator), Figma, and video editing software such as Adobe Premier, Final Cut Pro, or other relevant tools is required.
• Google Suite expertise
• A portfolio that demonstrates strong conceptual design skills through typography, layout, and experience in both digital and non-digital communications
• The successful applicant will demonstrate a deep understanding of industry best practices and the ability to build brand awareness and reputation through strong, bold, differentiated design.
• Ability to communicate creative concepts and articulate solutions to project stakeholders
• Expertise in creating production-ready files and videos, with strict adherence to layout, typography, and color guidelines.
• Experience collaborating with a team in a rapid growth environment. Strong organizational and project management skills, including a very strong attention to detail and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks autonomously..
• Experience facilitating feedback conversations and strong interpersonal skills in ability to listen to, filter, and apply feedback.
• Skilled in managing feedback from all roles and backgrounds—facilitating conversations with the ability to listen to, filter, and apply feedback. Strong interpersonal skills and openness to feedback is a must.

Compensation Range and Benefits

• Salary Range*: $102,00 - $120,000
• This role is also equity eligible
• This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package

*Subject to location, experience, and education

What do we offer to the ideal candidate?

• A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
• Unless stated otherwise, most roles have flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
• For exempt employees: Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of PTO per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
• Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including the Cedarian Advisory Group (a cross-functional cohort focused on increasing internal inclusiveness at Cedar) and three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
• Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
• Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally

About us

Cedar was co-founded by Florian Otto and Arel Lidow in 2016 after a negative medical billing experience inspired them to help improve our healthcare system. With a commitment to solving billing and patient experience issues, Cedar has become a leading healthcare technology company fueled by remarkable growth. Over the past several years, we’ve raised more than $350 million in funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, bringing Cedar’s valuation to $3.2 billion.

As of December 2023, Cedar is engaging with 25 million patients on an annualized basis, and is on target to process $2.6 billion in patient payments annually. Cedar’s ambition is to serve 50-60 million Americans by 2025, about half of the U.S. population that makes medical payments annually. Cedar partners with more than 55 leading healthcare providers and payers including Highmark Inc., Allegheny Health Network, Novant Health, Allina Health and Providence.