Senior Designer

The Senior Designer position is responsible for providing advanced creative technical solutions for highly complex marketing communication projects in partnership with our digital marketing strategy division. This role will be instrumental in helping support and progress our offerings for various initiatives as it relates to expanding our overall digital platform.

Senior Designers have ownership of creative presentations, communications, and stakeholder engagement at a senior-level degree being able to demonstrate:

• Proven experience in creating, developing, and executing best-in-class concepts that align with brand aesthetic and positioning to continue innovation and stay competitive in market 
• Ability to confidently present, explain and justify creative choices and direction in executive design reviews 
• The integration of the brand visual and voice guidelines in all creative work

Senior Designers have Agile environment expertise with demonstrated capabilities in:

• Working within fast deadlines without compromising quality of deliverables 
• Ability to creatively problem-solve 
• Illustration and iconography, prototyping, interaction design and visual design

Primary duties to include but are not limited to:

• Consults with stakeholders to understand business needs. 
• Communicate and present conceptual ideas and design rationale to non-design stakeholders 
• Responds to requests and ideas from key stakeholders from multiple areas, while working with department leads to incorporate their ideas / vision into illustrated layout and design 
• Provides and delivers creative input in the strategic development of all types of communications and offers design efficiency recommendations to help achieve strategic goals. 
• Develops creative ideas and solutions to meet business needs, through deliverables such as storyboards, illustrations, design layout and executing creative plans. 
• Uses graphic design software to produce printed/digital sales and marketing materials, multimedia solutions, and/or interactive experiences.
• Supports business initiatives and identifies process improvement opportunities. 
• Communicate project status, raise issues and identify risks quickly and effectively 
• Acts as project lead for all complex assignments. 
• Brainstorm concepts, sketch concepts, present work to stakeholders, incorporate revisions, and deliver final assets error free.

• Requires a BFA/BA degree. 
• 5-8 years of related experience; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background. 
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in illustration. 
• Proficient with Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign) on a Macintosh Platform 
• Storytelling capability required 
• High proficiency in graphic design required. 
• Active listening skills and ability to follow directions (hear, process and understand) and then visually execute 
• Links to an online portfolio required 
• Working experience and understanding of digital media solutions for web, mobile, email and digital video. 
• Strong communications skills (both written and oral).