Senior Designer

2 weeks ago

Chicago, United States Walker Sands Full time
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Overview:

Walker Sands is looking for a senior designer to join our Creative team out of our Chicago office - hybrid. As a senior designer, your primary focus will be to craft and activate world-class visual brand identity systems for industry-leading B2B brands. You will also oversee and coach a talented team of 2-3 designers, collaborate cross-functionally - with creative directors, copywriters, motion designers and strategists as well as PR, digital and social media experts from across the agency - and help us continue to shape and evolve our growing creative team.

Responsibilities:

Design + Individual Contribution:
    • Partner with creative directors, strategists, and copywriters to ideate, and develop award-winning brand identity systems and marketing campaigns.
    • Think conceptually and deliver strategic creative solutions based on specific brand and/or campaign goals.
    • Design brand expression and activation assets that are aligned with strategy and messaging.
    • Oversee production for a variety of creative deliverables (digital advertising, presentations, data visualizations, sell sheets, direct mail, and more), ensuring quality and consistency across channels.
    • Articulate and defend design decisions clearly and persuasively to facilitate the collection of feedback from design directors and other collaborators, including clients.
Creative Leadership:
    • Manage a team of designers, providing mentorship and coaching focused on personal learning and development. Uphold design standards and ensure the delivery of high-quality design work that exceeds expectations.
    • Mentor and collaborate with junior designers and copywriters, fostering a positive, inclusive and psychologically safe team culture.
    • Critique, challenge and celebrate the work of your colleagues during weekly creative reviews.
    • Stay abreast of industry trends and design best practices, bringing fresh and innovative ideas to the team.
    • Maintain day-to-day administrative responsibilities (responding to emails and Trello, meeting project deadlines, providing feedback on other team member's performance, and more.
About you:
  • You understand the principles of good design and are passionate about creating stunning visual experiences for screens, print, and brands.
  • You are relentlessly curious and constantly pursuing opportunities to better your skills.
  • You value feedback as a critical means for personal and professional growth.
  • You love grids.
  • You're a self-starter with high ambitions and higher standards. You take direction and run with it, you can confidently defend your creative decisions and you're comfortable voicing ideas to colleagues and clients.
  • You have an online portfolio that shows off your meticulous layout, color, and typographic skills.
  • You have 4-5 years of experience and formal training in design.
  • You've mastered Figma and Adobe CC staples, such as Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
  • You want to join a collaborative team that demands excellence, celebrates ideas over egos, and likes each other as much as they enjoy their job.
  • Bonus:
    • You have illustration skills and experience creating storyboards.
    • You can create killer PowerPoint templates and custom decks.

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