Company Overview

Apply is a new consumer brand focused on young, aspiring creatives. Picasso famously said that “every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." At Apply, we're focused on helping people find that inner artist by reframing stickers as creative tool kits for self-expression, personalization, and artistic exploration in an analog world.

Why Stickers? Because they’re affordable, accessible, and loved across generations and geographies. Creating art from scratch is hard, but anyone can remix. We’re working with renowned artists, designers, publishers, and media companies – through licensing and original commissioning – to assemble a world class portfolio. We lay a foundation for creativity: curating and printing the best stickers in the world. Our customers take it from there: expressing, remixing, and reimagining their world in endless ways.

We banded together as a team of storytellers, artists, technologists, curators, and operators early this year. While we have deep pride in our experience & instincts individually and collectively, humility guides us as we explore the unknown. Every addition to our team is an opportunity for us to learn and grow as an organization. Alumni organizations include: Shutterstock, Kickstarter, BCG, General Catalyst, Parsons, Beatport, The Brooklyn Museum, and Creative Time.

Job Overview

We’re seeking a Lead Designer as a founding pillar of our creative team. This is an opportunity to rapidly iterate product and brand explorations, online and off. You will help us challenge consumer expectations of stickers and inspire new use cases. You will shape our voice and tone across channels, evolving with customer feedback. While strategic perspective and team-building instincts are essential to success, this is a job for someone excited to execute.

You are:

• A multi-disciplinary designer with analog and digital fine art inclinations
• Drawn to stickers as an outlet for self-expression and creativity
• Experienced professionally across creative mediums (e.g., photography, illustration, animation, etc)
• Practiced in building or reimagining aspirational consumer brands, in the digital & physical worlds
• Naturally generative and gifted at receiving and giving constructive criticism.
• Someone with a high bar for craftsmanship, differentiated style, and worldly curiosity
• Both a strong visual and written storyteller
• Excited to work on all creative elements of the company, (e.g., brand, packaging, merchandising, marketing, physical product, material exploration, and beyond.)

Your Responsibilities:

• Evolving and maintaining the consistency of the creative assets used across brand, product, and marketing
• Deploying Apply’s brand identity across our physical and digital expressions
• Ensuring that we only raise our aesthetic and experiential bar over time, online and offline
• Translating user feedback into either product evolutions or customer segmentation