About the Company:

Octave is a modern behavioral health practice creating a new standard for care delivery that’s both high-quality and accessible. With in-person and virtual clinics in multiple states, the company offers evidence-based individual, couples, and family therapy, while pioneering relationships with payers to make care more affordable through insurance. By raising the bar on how care is delivered and how providers are supported, we are building a sustainable system that values equity, affordability, and effectiveness.

About the Role:

As the Senior Growth Designer at Octave, you will play an important role in creating well-designed, visually-impactful work that touches multiple channels and drives key growth metrics. This position requires a highly creative individual with impeccable attention to detail, strong project management skills, and a demonstrated understanding of design methodologies used to work cross functionally with peers in marketing, engineering, sales, and product organizations. The ideal candidate has the ability to lead projects from concept to completion, has extensive experience acting as a strong generalist across digital design, web design, advertising, print, art direction (and more), along with a portfolio demonstrating this diverse range of work.

Responsibilities Include:

• Brand Stewardship and Design Execution: Lead the development and evolution of the company’s visual brand identity across all channels, ensuring consistency and alignment with our overall brand strategy. Oversee visual elements of marketing campaigns, including digital ads, social media content, and print materials such as Out-Of-Home (OOH) advertising, sales materials, brochures, and direct mailers. Coordinate with internal teams + external agencies to deliver high-quality creative work on time and within budget, selecting stock photography and directing photo shoots to maintain a compelling visual style.
• Website and User Interface Design: Update website designs, build new components to enhance user experience, and drive conversions. Create intuitive, user-friendly interfaces for software products to ensure a positive, consistent experience across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate closely with developers to ensure high-quality execution and integration of design elements.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with marketing teams to create assets that support promotional efforts and enhance brand visibility. Partner with product managers, developers, and designers within the larger design organization to ensure brand uniformity, consistency, and alignment with business goals and technical requirements. Be highly articulate in communication and proactive in partnership.
• Management of Creative Resources: Oversee a team of contract creative designers, providing direction, feedback, and support to ensure high-quality outputs. Manage multiple design projects simultaneously, ensuring they are delivered on time and meet quality standards. Lead design reviews, in partnership with the Head of Design, and make necessary revisions based on feedback from stakeholders.
• Quality Assurance and Innovation: Have an impeccable eye for detail, adapting and refining designs based on user feedback, business needs, and technological advancements. Stay updated on industry trends, tools, and technologies to keep the company at the forefront of design innovation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Preferred 5+ years of professional design experience, ideally in startup or technology environments.
• Experience working on brands across B2C and B2B/Saas.
• Experience working on/with product design, UI/UX, visual design, and creative brand executions.
• Demonstrable experience successfully leading design projects from concept to completion.
• Experience in managing and communicating with internal stakeholders, peer designers, as well as external agency partners.
• Must be able to provide a portfolio of completed design projects and/or work samples.
• Expertise in brand development and visual design across digital and print media, with experience creating cohesive brand identities.
• Strong understanding of typographic principles, information hierarchy, layout, composition, and color theory.
• Thorough understanding of design best practices required for various channels such as email, social media, video, web, and mobile applications.
• Proficiency in UI/UX design, including the ability to craft intuitive interfaces and user experiences for web and mobile applications.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple projects and meet deadlines while maintaining high-quality standards.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to articulate design concepts clearly and work effectively with cross-functional teams, including marketing and development.
• A keen eye for detail, ensuring all design work is polished and aligns with brand standards, along with the ability to adapt designs based on feedback.
• Advanced skills in design software like Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and your animation tool(s) of choice with a strong understanding of current design trends and technologies.
• Nice to have: experience in healthcare, familiarity with HTML & CSS, and experience with design systems.

Octave‘s Company Values:

The below values drive our day-to-day operations.

• We’re human beings first. We operate with empathy and kindness – with our clients, with our collaborators, and with ourselves.
• People deserve better than status quo. We’re willing to tackle the intractable problems, no matter how big, because someone should. We ask big questions, we craft big solutions, and we challenge ourselves and others to make it happen.
• No bystanders. No stars. No tourists. Each person has been selected to be here, and with that comes a responsibility to bring your expertise, share your ideas, and help make this company better.
• Partnership paves the path ahead. We don’t operate in a silo, internally or externally. To transform the system, we believe in working with others to create something bigger, better, and stronger.
• Quality is crucial at scale. Quality is core to our business, and we refuse to sacrifice it as we grow.
• Progress is a process. In the pursuit of progress, we iterate, reflect, learn, adjust – and always leave things better than we found them.
• There are people behind every data point. We recognize that numbers tell only one part of the story, and we also do the work to understand impacts at the individual level.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to frequently communicate with others through virtual meeting applications such as Zoom and Google Meet.
• Must be able to observe and communicate information on company provided laptop.
• Move up to 10 pounds on occasion.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Compensation:

Octave is committed to pay equity. To maintain our commitment to pay equity, Octave will follow Pay Transparency regulations on all open job postings. Current Pay Transparency laws require companies to include a position’s salary or hourly wage range (not including bonuses or equity-based compensation) in any internal or external job posting. This requirement extends to job postings published by a third party at an employer’s request.

Octave will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Octave’s legal duty to furnish information.

Starting pay for qualified applicants will depend on a combination of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. The expected salary range for this role is set forth below and this range may be modified in the future.

The salary range for this role is $132,100 – $164,000.

Additionally, this position is eligible for the following benefits: company sponsored life insurance, disability and AD&D plans. Voluntary benefits such as 401k retirement, medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, dependent care and commuter/parking options are also available. Octave offers generous Paid Time Off as well as paid parental leave benefits.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Application Instructions:

Please complete the following application. Please note that the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Information questions below are used for the purposes of EEOC reporting and are optional to complete. Octave is unable to change these questions and we acknowledge that many of the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Information questions are not inclusive or affirming of all aspects of cultural identity. Octave is committed to an inclusive workplace environment, and this information will not inform how we approach hiring or employment.