Are you interested in Punchcut but don’t see a posting on our site? We are always looking for curious, thoughtful and genuine talent to join our team. Do you have skills in:

• • Interaction Design
  • UX Strategy
  • Sound/Audio
  • Visual/UI Design
  • Prototyping 
  • XR/Spatial/Sensory
  • Industrial Design
  • UX Research & Testing
  • Forecasting and Futurism
  • Project Management
  • Haptics
  • Business/Product Strategy
  • Design Technology
  • 3D Design & Animation
  • Motion Design
  • Sales/Growth
  • Account Management
  • Conversation Design
  • Illustration
  • Content Strategy

BONUS POINTS FOR:

• SF Bay Area location
• Past Design Agency experience

Please submit a resume, portfolio link (if applicable) and a cover letter expressing how you think you can help. Your cover letter should let us know what you would bring to Punchcut and whether you are seeking a contract or full time position. Don’t see your specialty? That’s ok. If you’re really talented in another field and think you have something to offer, please tell us! We are open to full-time and consultant/SME roles depending on business needs and your interests.

Punchcut is looking for a Business Development Coordinator who will work closely with the Growth Leader on agency new business development initiatives, including organization of the sales function, sales automation, sales outreach, and execution of successful proposals and other sales materials. We’re looking for a highly-organized team player, interested in a career in sales, client services, and/or project/program management, and who has a keen eye for new growth opportunities and a passion for sleuthing out market trends.

• Receive inbound new client requests and effectively track new business opportunities
• Support day-to-day tasks of the Sales/Growth Team
• Support planning and coordination of proposals, meetings, and client visits
• Support qualifying/fact-finding calls with prospective clients
• Assist in creating proposals, presentations, templates, and other sales materials
• Maintain growth software platforms (HubSpot)
• Maintain contact lists, automate outbound emails, and create templates
• Manage prospect databases and client contact information
• Design/generate business development reports, analytics, and trackers
• Develop, support, and maintain relationships with members of Punchcut’s network
• Collaborate with other internal teams to ensure effective communication
• Contribute to overall client satisfaction through responsive communication and polished professional presence

• 1–3 years of experience in a similar role, preferably in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills with the ability to multitask and prioritize competing demands
• Strong internal and client-facing communication skills, both written and verbal
• Proficient in Google Workspaces (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations)
• Proficient in Keynote (or PowerPoint as equivalent)
• Ability to maintain the highest level of confidentiality and discretion
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with a growth/business development team
• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Business Administration, Communications, or related field

• Prior work experience with design or ad agencies is a plus
• Design mindset/recognizes the value and benefits of good design/formatting in documents and deliverables

The pay range for this role is $60-90K annually. Compensation within this range determined by taking into account candidate experience, business/market financials and internal pay parity.

Punchcut is looking for a front-end developer to build attractive and functional Wordpress pages for Punchcut’s public-facing website. You will be responsible mostly in front-end development including the implementation of WordPress themes and plugins as well as site integration and security updates. We’re looking for a capable frontend developer with a good eye for aesthetics and strong content management skills. This is a remote friendly contract role that will work with our team regularly on an ongoing basis in a time-sensitive manner.

• Meeting with internal stakeholders to discuss website design and function.
• Designing and building the website front-end.
• Creating and maintaining the website architecture, following best practices and optimization principles.
• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.
• Generating WordPress themes and plugins.
• Troubleshooting content issues.
• Monitoring the performance of the live website.

• Proven work experience as a WordPress developer.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Knowledge of back-end technologies including PHP.
• Good understanding of website architecture and aesthetics.
• Good communication skills.
• Experience writing clean, well documented, and organized code

• Knowledge of best practices for organizing and administering Wordpress sites.

Punchcut is looking for a Product Strategist to remotely join our team. You’ll be an extended member of our talent network to serve as a consultant supplementing our internal capabilities as we scale. You’re a master of prioritizing client needs and product features, and partnering with product development teams via meticulous documentation and proactive management and communication. You have at least 5 to 7 years of relevant product management, and you feel comfortable working in a fast-paced and collaborative creative-agency environment. The ideal candidate would be an independent product manager that we could work with on projects from time to time over the next 1-3 years, however, may be a contract-to-hire option based on client demand.

The Product Strategist will provide business strategy, product strategy, and hands-on product development experience to Punchcut and client design teams, and help us exceed client expectations.

• Help develop product and service strategies for our clients as part of our broader team
• Assess market competition, landscape, differentiators and unique selling points
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements
• Recommend / facilitate determination of product scope, feature set and MVP drivers
• Provide overall product development and feature-level direction to project teams
• Recommend go-to market product launch plans, including strategic product roadmaps
• Define user stories and ensure requirements are met
• Develop sprint plans and support project managers in execution of the sprint plans
• Interface with main executive sponsors, Punchcut creative teams, and client technical development teams
• Partner with Punchcut Project Managers to monitor and guide workflow and product development related tasks; set daily, weekly, and long-term project goals and report status
• Work within an enthusiastic team to further refine our product management philosophies, capabilities, processes and tools

• Proven track record of delivering products on time and within budget in the consumer technology industry
• Minimum of 5 years experience managing both large- and small- scale go-to-market interactive and digital products
• Proficiency developing and documenting product roadmaps, user stories, product requirements, etc.
• Ability to independently identify and resolve product development issues
• Maintains up-to-date market and technical knowledge, including competitive/comparative analysis
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JIRA, Zeppelin, Confluence and/or other product design & development tools
• Excellent estimating and scheduling skills
• Experience with UX design and agency/consulting environments
• Excellent presentation, oral and written-communication skills, including meeting and workshop-facilitation experience
• Flexibility to jump head first into a project and hit the ground running
• Excellent team building, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills
• Enthusiasm, positive energy, and sense of humor

• Experience working in a creative/design agency environment
• Familiar with Keynote, Sketch, Figma, Adobe Suite

Punchcut is seeking a new team member to support our company leadership. You’ll help nurture and extend our company culture, help our team achieve their personal / professional growth and work to continually improve the Punchcut experience. Candidates should have experience as an HR generalist and be enthusiastic about implementing programs that expand our training, DEI, and performance development initiatives. This is a full-time or part-time role (we can flex for the right person).

We already have a great team, a strong culture, and a creative design studio environment. Come help us take it to the next level!

• Love taking care of people
• Cultivate an inclusive, equitable and healthy work environment
• Engage with a positive, enthusiastic and supportive approach
• Listen closely to others, always balancing other people’s perspectives
• Enjoy organizing project plans and details
• Easily build relationships and connect with others

The People and Culture Manager is accountable for working with our Leadership team to cultivate our people and our working experience in line with our strategic mission and business goals.

• Help nurture Punchcut’s culture, ensuring ongoing inclusivity, collaboration, and differentiation with an increasingly distributed workforce
• Lead strategies and initiatives for employee engagement, connection, and retention
• Support our teams in providing effective feedback, coaching, and training
• Monitor employee satisfaction and improvement areas through formal and informal means
• Help lead our training, learning, and talent development programs
• Coach and advise new leaders in improving their management skills
• Manage relationships and communications with flex team members (temps, interns, contractors)
• Help lead our DEI committee, company-wide conversations, and related initiatives
• Inform employee leveling, compensation, and benefits decisions
• Manage day-to-day HR tasks, maintain HRIS, and answer employee HR questions as needed
• Working with our HR/compliance consultant, ensure we are following federal, state, and city HR requirements.

• At least 5 years working as an HR generalist, recruiter, trainer or similar role
• Experience managing people
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Competency in Google Suite and interest/willingness to learn other HR, operational, and design tools
• Outstanding relationship, team-building and conflict resolution skills
• A cool head, enthusiasm, lots of positive energy, and a sense of humor

• Prior experience in a People & Culture role
• Experience working in a design agency
• Experience using Bamboo, Small Improvements and similar tools

Punchcut is looking for a Product Designer with experience in Enterprise Solutions to remotely join our team on a 3-6 month contract. We’re looking for someone that likes to work on complex problems and thrives in a collaborative, creative agency environment. The right candidate has at least five years of relevant product design experience with two of those years in enterprise design.

• Systematic. You think in systems, not silos. You connect your design choices to a larger system.
• Multifaceted. You understand the product design cycle, bringing multiple talents to help a product get to market, including information architecture, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping.
• Connected. You can draw a clear thread that traces your solution back to user and business insights.
• Persuasive. You believe that design communication is as important as design itself. You’re able to convey your ideas through exceptional writing, speaking, and prototyping.
• Honest. You treat your work and relationships with a high level of integrity.
• Inclusive. You desire for your solutions to solve the needs of others who have been historically excluded and underserved.

• Work with top-tier clients. You’ll work closely with Design Teams, Product Managers, and Engineers to deliver world-class digital products. 
• Deliver go-to-market designs: You’ll gather requirements, develop user stories, create user flows, extend visual systems, and produce design prototypes.
• Collaborate in a cross-functional design team. You’ll work with other Punchcut disciplines such as immersive design, motion design, research, and design technology. 
• Chart future visions: You’ll go beyond screens to create strategies and frameworks that help define the future vision for products and features.

• A curiosity about how the world works and excitement for designing better products and services. 
• A portfolio demonstrating experience designing digital products, showing your process as well as your end product.
• Experience working collaboratively with different design disciplines and cross-functional products teams.
• Familiarity with existing and emerging design patterns across a range of platforms.
• Experience designing for enterprise B2B and/or financial services is a plus

Punchcut is looking for a 3D Motion Designer to remotely join our team on a 60 – 90 day contract with the potential to extend or hire. Our designers have a strong understanding of user-centered design and are comfortable working both independently and in collaboration with other designers in a fast-paced studio environment. Candidates should have at least 2-3 years of relevant experience working on 3D motion graphics, Cinema 4D experience and a superb reel that showcases their best work. Bonus points for experience with Unity or working on VR/AR applications.

• Serve as a lead 3D Motion Designer on client projects
• Model, texture, and animate assets in Cinema 4D that will export to Unity
• Assist and adjust modeling strategies to work based on Unity limitations
• Set up 3D scenes in Unity
• Work with designers to apply user-centered design processes to solve new and unique problems
• Explore a range of motion directions and solutions
• Assist in creating effective, compelling stories
• Collaborate closely with interaction designers, visual designers, and developers.
• Deliver high quality, breathtaking, “they did what?!” kinda work

• 2-3 years minimum experience in 3D digital motion design.
• A stellar portfolio + reel that shows creative range and innovative thinking
• Deep experience in Cinema 4D
• Superior communication and organization skills
• Understanding of VR technologies
• Ability to produce great work in short timeframes, and manage time efficiently while multitasking
• Ambitious, proactive, conceptual, and honest
• A strong animation skill set

BONUS POINTS FOR:

• Unity experience
• VR UI currently in market
• Experience directing and/or mentoring other designers
• Advanced logic based prototyping (Origami)

Punchcut is looking for a Product Designer to remotely join our team on a 60 – 90 day contract with the potential to extend or hire. We’re a human design company with an open, inclusive work culture and great work-life balance. You have at least 3 years of relevant product design experience and thrive in a collaborative, creative agency environment.

• Systematic. You think in systems, not silos. You connect your design choices to a larger system.
• Multifaceted. You understand the product design cycle, bringing multiple talents to help a product get to market, including information architecture, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping.
• Connected. You can draw a clear thread that traces your solution back to user and business insights.
• Persuasive. You believe that design communication is as important as design itself. You’re able to convey your ideas through exceptional writing, speaking, and prototyping.
• Honest. You treat your work and relationships with a high level of integrity.
• Inclusive. You desire for your solutions to solve the needs of others who have been historically excluded and underserved.

• Work with top-tier clients. You’ll work closely with Design Teams, Product Managers, and Engineers to deliver world-class digital products. 
• Deliver go-to-market designs: You’ll gather requirements, develop user stories, create user flows, extend visual systems, and produce design prototypes.
• Collaborate in a cross-functional design team. You’ll work with other Punchcut disciplines such as immersive design, motion design, research, and design technology. 
• Chart future visions: You’ll go beyond screens to create strategies and frameworks that help define the future vision for products and features.

• A curiosity about how the world works and excitement for designing better products and services. 
• A portfolio demonstrating experience designing digital products, showing your process as well as your end product.
• Experience working collaboratively with different design disciplines and cross-functional products teams.
• Familiarity with existing and emerging design patterns across a range of platforms.
• Experience designing for enterprise B2B and/or financial services is a plus

Punchcut is looking for a UX Research Coordinator to remotely join our team on a 60-90 day contract. You should have a strong understanding of user-centered design and be comfortable working independently and collaboratively. You’re familiar with qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. You’ve created screeners, recruited participants, observed sessions, and synthesized results. You’re also comfortable working with diverse project teams in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

• Find, analyze and summarize existing research (market trends, technology/analyst reports, academic papers, etc.)
• Recruit and schedule participants for research studies
• Observe and take notes during research sessions (remote contextual interviews, usability, etc.) led by our Design Researchers
• Participate in data collection; synthesis and analysis of findings
• Collaborate with our UX research team to generate user insights and opportunities

• Undergraduate degree in Human-Computer-Interaction, Human Factors, Computer Science, Design, Psychology, Anthropology and/or equivalent field of study
• 1-2 years of UX research experience
• Experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research using various and appropriate user-centered design methods.
• A portfolio of work that shows experience and knowledge in the field of UX research
• A strong degree of empathy
• Excellent communication and organization skills
• Ability to produce great work in short timeframes and manage time efficiently

• Interaction or Visual design

Punchcut is looking for a Senior UX Researcher to remotely join our team on a 60-90 day contract. You should have a strong understanding of user-centered design and be comfortable working independently and collaboratively. You have at least 5-7 years of relevant UX research experience using a mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) approach and have familiarity with a toolbox of research methodologies/techniques to uncover behaviors, trends, patterns, and insights. You also know how to lead creative teams on fast-paced research projects.

• Serve as Senior UX Researcher on client projects and help with guiding the work of researchers on your team.
• Oversee research activities which may include: contextual/remote interviews, diary studies, surveys, concept/usability testing sessions (physical and/or digital prototypes), deep data analysis, etc.
• Apply user-centered design process to solve problems in contexts that have little precedence.
• Lead brainstorm and research meetings internally and with clients.
• Generate actionable insights from research efforts and present opportunities for strategy, concepting, product design, and development both internally and externally.

• 5-7 years minimum experience in user research and interaction design, with the last 2-3 years in a senior role.
• Experience conducting both qualitative and quantitative research using a various and appropriate user-centered design methods.
• A stellar portfolio that shows a range of research projects.
• Superior communication and client management skills.
• Experience directing and/or mentoring UX researchers and interns.
• Ability to produce great work in short timeframes, and manage time efficiently while multi-tasking.
• Interest in designing future products, services, and experiences.
• Ambitious, proactive, empathetic and honest.

• Interaction or Visual design
• Data Science