Visual/Motion Designer

Edge & Node is a creative software development company working to build a vibrant, decentralized future. Founded by the initial team behind The Graph, Edge & Node is dedicated to the advancement of web3, a decentralized and fair internet where public data is available to all—an internet that enables its users to increase agency over their creations and their lives.

Edge & Node’s initial product is The Graph, an indexing protocol for querying networks like Ethereum and IPFS, which ensures open data is always available and easy to access. The Graph is used by thousands of protocols and dapps including Uniswap, Livepeer, Aave, Decentraland, and more.

The Design Team is a distributed group of problem-solvers with high standards. Striving for excellence in every iteration by being curious, agile, and pragmatic. We collaborate closely across time zones, taking ownership and constantly pushing designs forward across product and marketing. We empathize and engage with users to identify, research, and develop foundational design patterns to make dApps and web3 more accessible and beautiful.

We seek a curious visual & motion designer passionate about the craft and aesthetics. A detail-oriented creative who can take on even the most complex of briefs and turn them into exciting, easy-to-understand solutions - with a desire to create work beyond the expected. Our ideal candidate will be biased toward action, default to collaborative communication, and possess the skills to deliver excellent designs.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading creative work streams and crafting the brand approach through visuals and motion

• Collaborating with designers and other team members

• Creating a range of design outputs. E.g., templates, components, design system assets, micro-animations, motion guidelines, video editing, interactive designs, brand guidelines, social media assets, presentations, etc

• Marketing: Creating beautiful and communicative content for blog posts, emails, keynotes, and social media. Creating original, innovative designs that emotionally connect with the audience.

• Community: Designing SWAG for our community (t-shirts, notebooks, etc.). Improving the experience for visitors at our conference booths, hackathons, and other events.

• Brand: Upholding our brand guidelines while making innovative proposals for improvements

What We Expect

• Skills

• A portfolio showcasing both graphic and motion work

• Experience in Motion/animation with strong and diverse illustration skills. Have the ability to visualize and bring early-stage ideas alive

• Excellent skills with design applications (Adobe Creative Suite — specifically After Effects and Figma)

• Follow and Improve our brands (The Graph and Edge & Node). Ensure alignment with existing design language and interaction

• Process

• Able to create visual assets from a sometimes rough brief. Work with stakeholders to ensure the feasibility of designs.

• Ensure deliverables and deadlines are met.

• Communication/Collaboration

• Emotional intelligence to think through design problems with partners and arrive at thoughtful solutions.

• Compassionate and confident when giving feedback to others on the team, and humble when receiving feedback

• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Proactively raising ideas and issues early and often.

• Personality

• Appreciate details but also have a high level of conceptual thinking.

• A strong work ethic. Be able to take ownership, make decisions, and proof-check your work. Know how to balance perfectionism with agile deliverables.

• Appreciate and thrive in technical working environments

• Extra points if you:

• Have previously worked on a digital product

• Experience with Cinema 4D, Maya, or other 3D programs is a plus.

• Have experience working with SWAG

• Have experience with Crypto

• Live/work in US time zones

About the Graph

The Graph is the source of data and information for the decentralized internet. As the original decentralized data marketplace that introduced and standardized subgraphs, The Graph has become web3’s method of indexing and accessing blockchain data. Since its launch in 2018, tens of thousands of developers have built subgraphs for dapps across 40+ blockchains - including  Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon, Celo, Fantom, Gnosis, and Avalanche.

As demand for data in web3 continues to grow, The Graph enters a New Era with a more expansive vision including new data services and query languages, ensuring the decentralized protocol can serve any use case - now and into the future.

Discover more about how The Graph is shaping the future of decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) and stay connected with the community. Follow The Graph on X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Medium. Join the community on The Graph’s Telegram, join technical discussions on The Graph’s Discord.

The Graph Foundation oversees The Graph Network. The Graph Foundation is overseen by the Technical Council. Edge & Node, StreamingFast, Semiotic Labs, The Guild, Messari, GraphOps, Pinax and Geo are eight of the many organizations within The Graph ecosystem.