About Sollective:
We’re Sollective and our mission is to empower Japan with a new breed of freelancers.

We’re serious about:

• Building tools to make freelancers’ businesses easier to run
• Making sure that all companies, big and small can benefit from freelancers’ unique skills and experiences
• …and of course growing stronger together as freelancers.

We’re an HRTech company founded in Japan in 2020, and we operate Sollective, an all-in-one freelancing platform and service for top freelancers:

All freelancers and companies on Sollective will have the tools to manage contracting, billing, and manage their clients or freelancer (even if they’re not on Sollective).

We screen both freelancers and companies, and those who pass our screening can directly connect for the best projects and opportunities. In addition, fully screened members get access to exclusive community chats, events, and benefits.

About The Team:
The majority of our team is made up of experienced freelancers. We currently number 15+ and growing. We're very diverse in terms of both nationality and background. Our members are currently 50-50 male/female and are from places like the US, Puerto Rico, France, Australia, and Japan.

About The Role:
You will be the visual leader of the Sollective brand: ensuring that the visual messaging used in all areas of Sollective is consistent and beautiful: no matter how big (marketing campaigns) or small (landing pages, emails to our members).

As the Art Director, you will also be in charge of maintaining and evolving our Brand and Visual Identity as we adapt to new channels and mediums in order to best serve the interests of freelancers in Japan and our own brand.

This role will report to the Co-Founder and interim Head of Marketing at Sollective and will be supported by a Junior Designer.

Responsibilities:

• Adhere to a Brand Identity and Visual Identity
• Evolve and maintain the BI and VI as necessary for market and audience relevance
• Be a champion of Freelancers and lead a necessary re-brand of the term フリーランス in Japan.
  Work closely with any design agencies and vendors we employ to push the boundaries of our visual expression

Who You Are:

• 6+ Years of Design Experience either at a design agency or in-house position
• Strong skills in designing for digital mediums, but also aware of requirements for print
• Comfortable with design processes that use data to inform design decisions
• Business-level in Japanese or English
• Comfortable with technology
• Excellent Written Communication

Nice to have:

• Experience working with PR Professionals
• Marketing Data Analytics
• Marketing Production or Project Management Experience

• This position is required "Hybrid work" (2-3 days in our Shinagawa office, otherwise remote)