About Zscaler
Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company's cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.
Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler's purpose-built security platform puts a company's defenses and controls where the connections occurthe internetso that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.
Job Description
We are building a team of creative-minded individuals who can help elevate and nurture a world-class Blue Chip brand. We are passionate about our work and we thrive on new creative opportunities. We know we have a great story to tell, and we are looking for the best, most talented team of storytellers to help tell it. Our internal creative agency, Zephyr is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Graphic Designer II who lives and breathes brand experience and design, drives ideation and creativity while thinking about the strategic big picture. This team is responsible for the expression of the Zscaler brand in every aspect of the human experience. The right candidate should have high-level conceptual skills with identity systems, developing conceptual ads, and experience working across various media and mediums. You have strong typographic and layout skills, strict attention to detail, and possess excellent analytical skills to find graphic solutions while ensuring guidelines and quality standards are met. Your work here will include a wide breadth of projects and materialsranging across advertising, web, digital, data visualization, print, social, video, keynotes and events.
Your Responsibilities
- Layout various forms of collateral, digital and print ads, presentations, and assist other designers in producing project deliverables.
- Make various formats of supplied artwork production-ready and resolve any artwork issues that arise during production.
- Produce a wide variety of creatives that range from print and production to digital, web and multimedia, to required specifications, with high fidelity.
- Use design experience and creative eye to search for and curate good, quality stock photographyadhering to brand and style guidelines.
- Provide image retouching, and any additional image manipulation to ensure quality and effectiveness of creative assets.
- Create new projects and manipulate existing graphics through Adobe Creative Suite applications such as Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
- Ability to export various formats of supplied artwork into a production-ready delivery package and resolve any artwork issues that arise during the process.
- Collaborate closely with the Creative Director, Art Director, copywriters, designers, and developers.
- Continuously self-educate on the competitive landscape and current design trends to help in maintaining relevance in advertising and design.
- Effectively communicate conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale both verbally and visually.
- Produce comps, concept executions and presentations for the work.
- Clearly articulate and present work to the Creative Director and a wide range of stakeholders.
- Have a deep understanding of Zscaler's business strategies and goals.
- Have a command of Zscaler's brand vision, systems, and documentation.
- Work closely with other Zephyr team members and the production team to establish priority, fidelity and timely delivery of tasks.
- Ensure quality control and outcomes through technical and critical thinking.
- Be a design advisor to our clients and your peers we don't just take orders, we recommend the best possible approach and collaborate and iterate for effectiveness.
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- 3+ years of experience in creative agency, studio or in-house.
- A BFA, BS, or MFA in Graphic Design or equivalent field is required.
- A strong portfolio of design, showcasing an excellent sense of concept development, typography, layout, web and digital design principles (Required to apply).
- Proven experience creating and maintaining production ready design files with focus on: layout design, typesetting, photography selection and editing, print production, and quality assurance control.
- High proficiency with industry-standard design tools and software (Adobe Creative Suite).
- Proficiency with business software (MS Office, Google Slides).
- Experience building PowerPoint presentations, slide layout design, including typography, diagram and iconography creation, as well as slide animation.
- A professional knowledge of web and social media standards and limitations.
- A pulse on what is relevant in culture, design and technology and can investigate, innovate, and develop design, print and digital trends.
- A self-starter attitude with an excitement to work in a fast-paced, low-ego environment.
- Ability to make persuasive arguments to influence design decisions with internal and external partners.
- Actively seek feedback and review of work; accept and act upon creative/technical direction.
- Take direction well and be nimble to extend designs across platforms.
- Sharp attention to detail.
- A design eye to distinguish good design from bad, careless from well-conceived and crafted.
- Troubleshoot any design or application issues.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and team.
- Ability to collaborate with othersstakeholders, technical teams, partners and other designers.
- Attention-to-detail, strong organizational skills and time management.
Bonus Technical Skills
- Figma
- Illustration Experience
- Motion graphic and/or animation skills
- Copy writing/proofing
By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.
Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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Pay Transparency
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Zscaler is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations or adjustments) in our recruiting processes for candidates who are differently abled, have long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support.
