Visual Designer

About Dorsia: 

About Us: Dorsia is at the forefront of hospitality tech innovation. We are revolutionizing the way people experience dining & hospitality by leveraging cutting-edge technology to offer exclusive restaurant reservations and VIP experiences. Join us as we continue to expand our footprint and reshape the hospitality industry.

We believe that restaurants are rockstars, chefs are artists, and we celebrate and build for this community and their patrons with sustained and hungry passion. Unlike existing dining reservation systems, Dorsia leverages a unique supply and demand pricing model to offer hard-to-book reservations for a guaranteed minimum spend. For restaurants, we optimize revenue by providing a reliable customer base, reducing no-shows and cancellations, and unlocking access to actionable diner insights and marketing support. For our members, we remove the hassle & frustration of securing that perfect reservation. 

Who we are: Dorsia is a team of more than 50 employees with deep experience in hospitality, tech, media, creative, finance, and more, hailing from companies such as Amex, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Four Seasons, Brex, Vimeo, Booking Holdings, The New York Times, Cadre, and more. Dorsia's founding executive team includes Marc Lotenberg (Dorsia founder; CEO of Surface Media); Joshua Stern (VP; formerly Wine & Dine and I Know the Chef), and Jared Morgenstern, (investor/advisor; former COO, Raya, and third designer at Facebook). 

 

About the role: 

Dorsia is looking for a Visual Designer who is excited about Dorsia's mission. As a member of our design team and reporting to our Director of Design, you will invent, integrate, and maintain an elegant and cohesive Dorsia visual identity across all the product, marketing, and social media channels.

Through our design, we will evoke the values of taste, access, and luxury to drive a sense of trust and pride in our members. Our goal is to empathize with both our members and restaurant partners, remove friction involved in the process of discovering and booking coveted restaurant reservations, and ease restaurant interactions, moving a longstanding industry forward. This is an opportunity to join a company at an early stage, to have a huge impact on the launch and growth of our platform, and to gain an invaluable amount of mentorship and visibility into leadership. 

 

Responsibilities:

• Create artistic, elegant, and ownable graphics and videos for digital and print editorial, brand marketing, membership engagement activations and events, leadership presentation decks, and graphics for Dorsia’s social channels (Instagram @dorsia)
• Work cross-functionally with the Content / Editorial and Marketing teams to design unique digital and print brand experiences, design-driven stories about restaurant partners, and frameworks for systems to communicate the Dorsia product, vision, and ethos
• Develop systems for gathering and managing required brand assets and imagery from restaurant and brand partners for streamlined and effective use in design work
• Create video edits for Social channels 
• Strategically curate layouts and designs across all channels to showcase our content direction, photography and videography, and brand voice
• Share your work with other designers and provide feedback
• Work with design team to ensure that our design workspace is organized and efficiently maintained

What we’re looking for: 

• Experience in designing and communicating through graphics and digital products, with a tremendous sense of empathy for the end user in all aspects of the business
• Conscientiousness of timelines and stakeholders and commitment to timely delivery of work
• Experience collaborating with designers, product managers, and editorial team
• Advanced knowledge of Figma, Photoshop, and Illustrator
• Demonstrated expertise in layout and typography
• Illustration experience (View our style on Instagram)
• Intermediate video editing for Tiktok and Reels (After Effects, Premiere Pro, or equivalent)
• An interest in keeping up with and learning the latest design tools, industry trends, and methodologies
• Ability to work independently and calm under pressure, while maintaining good judgment when making decisions
• Comfortability in a lean startup environment; ability to navigate ambiguity, handle shifting priorities with ease, and collaborate cross-functionally with diverse stakeholders
• Creative attitude toward marketing and branding
• Bachelor’s degree in a design-related field 
• Passion for the food, art, and hospitality

It’s a plus if you have:

• Interest in product design and prototyping UX/UI
• An eye for film and photography
• Experience with animation (motion graphics, transitions, loaders, screens, etc.)
• Experience working with luxury brands

 

Our Current Design Stack:

• Figma
• Framer
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• After Effects
• Procreate

Other Relevant Tools

• Notion
• Linear
• Braze
• Wisestamp

 

Compensation & Benefits:

• Salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and stage. We determine our pay by considering skills and experience related to the role, location, and ensuring internal equity relative to other Dorsia employee
• Flexible PTO
• Medical, dental and vision insurance 
• FSA
• Commuter benefits
• Free membership to One Medical 
• Teladoc
• Talkspace
• Kindbody
• 401(k) 
• In-office lunch 2 days a week 
• Employee Dining Credits 

Work Location: This role is located fully onsite in our Miami office. 

Our Core Values

Lead with hospitality. We respect the craft and precision that are intrinsic to the hospitality industry. We are a team diverse in background and thought, built to be the connective tissue between artists, chefs, diners, and members.

Mise en place. We are persistent in preparation, prioritization, and focus to anticipate our customers’ needs to create a powerful platform rooted in simplicity and elegance. And we know that details matter, which is why superior design is crucial to our brand ethos. Thoughtful design is baked into everything we do—our product, brand, creative, culture, and beyond. 

Go around the table—then commit. We know creativity takes feedback and iteration, and differing opinions can lead to healthy debate. While we encourage all voices to speak up and be heard, we are geared toward action and unify around the decision once it's made. Sometimes an individual idea or project may not be what’s best for the company, so don’t be afraid to kill your darlings. 

Our product is our signature dish. We are a product and marketing-led organization. Protecting our brand and vision needs to be top-of-mind with every move we make. 

Optimize turn times. We are creating beautifully-designed, tech-forward solutions to automate all sides of our business: for members, restaurants, and employees. And we’re laying a data-rich foundation to enable all stakeholders to make better decisions and enjoy the finer things in life.

Savor it. We eat slowly and celebrate the wins we share with those around the table. We’re in this for the long-haul, so enjoy the ride. 

Stay hungry. We can change the world or someone else will. We believe in a sense of urgency to keep pushing toward our goals. And there’s always room for dessert, because there’s always more to do.