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About the Role

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is seeking a collaborative and growth-minded Designer to shape the Stellar brand across global digital and marketing channels. This role offers autonomy in managing production lifecycles and agency partnerships, with opportunities for mentorship and innovation in design systems.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design across campaigns, product launches, and multi-channel marketing content (social, web, print, presentations), ensuring high-fidelity output that elevates the Stellar brand.
• Develop narrative-driven visual concepts and contribute to the evolution of our design system, extending new executions while maintaining a high standard of quality.
• Independently manage the full production lifecycle—from scoping and revisions to delivery—while prioritizing concurrent projects with minimal day-to-day oversight.
• Partner with internal stakeholders, Creative leadership, and external agencies, providing constructive feedback and sharing design best practices to ensure consistent brand excellence.
• Lead creative development on high-visibility projects and actively improve team processes, including the introduction of scalable components and emerging AI tools to enhance creative output.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in brand design, with a strong mix of agency and in-house expertise.
• Robust portfolio demonstrating judgment, coherent visual systems, and clear brand thinking across digital (ads, web, social), motion, company merch (SWAG) and/or physical collateral.
• Design mastery in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, with a forward-looking fluency in emerging AI design tools.
• Proven ability to build upon and extend brand design systems, with a track record of defining and executing high-level creative direction.
• Experience managing end-to-end projects, including liaising with external agencies and freelance partners to ensure quality and timely delivery.
• Proven capacity to manage multiple concurrent projects and deadlines with minimal day-to-day oversight.
• Strong interpersonal skills for partnering effectively across marketing, strategy, content, and communications teams.
• Ability to present work to senior stakeholders, clearly articulate rationale, and advocate for strong creative decisions.

Skills

• Figma
• Adobe Creative Suite
• AI design tools
• Generative AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, Envato)
• Stellar ecosystem
• Open-source software
• Decentralized finance (DeFi)
• Fintech
• Design systems

Location

• USA

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 3-5 years

Salary/Compensations

• $100,000 - $130,000

Benefits

• Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents
• Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
• Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents
• Gym reimbursement ($80 per month)
• Life & ADD (up to $50K)
• Short & Long term disability
• 401K with 4% match
• Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts
• Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution
• Family building benefits through Kindbody
• Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)
• L&D budget of $1,500/year
• Daily lunch and snacks in office
• Company retreats
• Lumen-denominated grants

About the Company

• Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high scale today.
• Stellar is more than a blockchain. Powered by a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network made for financial products and services and a thriving and passionate ecosystem that includes a non-profit organization driven by a mission, Stellar is paving the path to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology.
• Built with speed and low costs in mind, the Stellar network provides builders and financial institutions worldwide a platform to issue assets, and to send and convert currencies in real time creating real world utility.
• Founded in 2014, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) supports the continued development and growth of the Stellar network and also serves the ecosystem of NGOs, corporations, universities, small businesses, governments, and solo entrepreneurs building on the Stellar network through tooling, funding and strategic collaborations.
• The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization focused on working with and supporting change-makers to create equitable access to the global financial system through blockchain technology.
• SDF provides grants, investments, funding, and other awards to builders and organizations.
• SDF also develops resources and tooling on the Stellar network to help unlock real world utility.
• As a nonprofit foundation, SDF puts the health of the Stellar network and the Stellar ecosystem and its mission above all else.

Equal Opportunity

• SDF is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. SDF does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law.