The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  StartupSphere is hiring a Graphic Designer in Escondido, CA.

• Role description

  We're looking for a candidly-kind Graphic Designer in Escondido who turns rough ideas into polished, on-brand work that gets noticed. This hardworking junior role offers $55,000 - $78,000, the freedom to own your roadmap, and a team that helps you grow.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Present design rationale clearly to junior stakeholders and clients
  • Bridge the User Research vision and the User Personas reality without breaking either
  • Pressure-test headlines against real audience reactions before anything goes live
  • Fold accessibility into the first sketch, not the final QA pass
  • Time the reveal in a launch film so the logo lands earned, not slapped on
  • Reframe a tired product story until junior stakeholders lean forward again
  • Co-author the creative content calendar with marketing, then make it look effortless

  What You'll Bring

  • Familiarity with the rhythms of a heads-down-and-happy freelance team
  • Working understanding of both Iconography and Adobe After Effects in real-world settings
  • Demonstrated comfort presenting to junior leadership
  • Values-led problem-solving that doesn't wait for permission
  • Curiosity that outpaces your current job description
  • A point of view, held loosely and defended well
  • Junior mastery of User Personas, validated by people who'd hire you again

  What began as two engineers and a whiteboard in Escondido is now StartupSphere, a mission-driven team obsessed with getting Heuristic Evaluation right. Around StartupSphere, the loudest voice never automatically wins the creative argument.

  The package speaks for itself: $55,000 - $78,000, coaching, coverage, and the flexible freelance hours that oddball-friendly creative pros expect.

  Still hiring, still current, still waiting for someone like you.

  Go ahead and apply; the worst that happens is StartupSphere learns your name.

• Required skills

  • User Personas
  • Interaction Design
  • Wireframing
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Motion Design
  • Iconography
  • Card Sorting
  • Heuristic Evaluation
  • User Research
  • Zeplin
  • Delegation
  • Customer Service
  • Growth Mindset

• Benefits & perks

  • Subscription to industry publications
  • Oil Changes
  • Travel opportunities
  • Tenure-based rewards
  • Parental leave
  • Auto and home insurance discounts
  • Paid paternity leave
  • Onsite Childcare
  • Paid certification exam fees
  • Concierge Services

• Apply before 2026-08-28

  Submit your application for this Freelance creative position.