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Job description
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We're dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use.
We're looking for an Experiential Visual Designer to bring Plaid's brand to life at our events and in-person marketing moments.
This role sits within Design and partners closely with the Events and Marketing teams. You'll design for the moments where customers, developers, partners, and prospects meet Plaid face to face (and sometimes on screen): conference booths, flagship and field events, activations, signage, swag people actually want to keep, and the campaign collateral that surrounds them. Strong craft is the baseline. We're also looking for someone who is comfortable working with physical constraints (materials, print specs, vendors, build and install timelines) and who can carry a steady stream of requests across multiple events and campaigns without quality slipping.
Responsibilities
- Concept and design creative for external events, such as conference booths, activations, event signage, step-and-repeats, digital screens, presentation decks, badges, and other in-person collateral
- Design swag and merchandise for events and campaigns, from concept through production-ready vendor files
- Design campaign collateral that extends event moments, such as invitations, onsite print, and leave-behinds
- Design digital collateral such as splash pages, social media posts and anything else to promote events
- Partner with the Events and Marketing teams to translate event concepts and campaign themes into shippable design
- Prepare and hand off production-ready, vendor-ready files (specs, print files, dielines, proofing), and work directly with fabricators and print vendors as needed
- Manage your own queue across concurrent events and requests, flagging tradeoffs and prioritizing smartly against event dates
- Keep every physical expression of the brand recognizably Plaid while adapting to venue, material, and format constraints
Must-haves
- 7+ years of experience in graphic design, with hands-on experience designing for print and physical/experiential applications
- A portfolio showing event or experiential work, such as booths, activations, swag, signage, or campaign collateral
- Strong typography, layout, and color sense that holds up at both large scale (booth graphics, signage, step-and-repeats) and small scale (stickers, badges)
- Comfortable working with print vendors, fabricators, and production specs (bleed, dielines, materials, build and install constraints)
- Expert in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator especially)
- Comfortable using AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, ect.)
- Comfortable working inside an existing brand system, but also pushing and experimenting with new elements when it makes sense
- Able to work against fixed event dates and turn work around quickly without sacrificing quality
- Effective both independently and as part of a team
Nice-to-haves
- Experience designing booths, trade show exhibits, or event environments specifically
- Experience with 3D or mockup tools to visualize booths and event spaces
- Experience supporting multiple events or campaigns on a recurring calendar, ideally on an in-house marketing or events team or agency
- Experience with motion or AI/automation tools
- Interest in fintech, technology, or the future of financial services
What success looks like
- Events feel distinctly Plaid, from booth to signage to swag to collateral
- Event and campaign assets ship on time, ahead of fixed event dates
- Clean, vendor-ready files that don't need rework
- Become a trusted creative partner to Events and Marketing