Job Order: 5399
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Senior Brand Designer
Location: Ohio
Company Summary:
A design firm.
Description:
Overview:
The Sr. Brand Designer actively lives the vision for the role of design by creating solutions that maximize the impact of the brand. He/She actively collaborates with the core team, under the leadership of the Design Director, to fulfill the the creative vision for the client. The Sr. Brand Designer works closely with the Associate Design Director to own and maintain design standards and create on-brand design solutions that achieve the strategic goals for the brand. As a senior team member, the Sr. Brand Designer is expected to create and protect brand equity through design choices that meet the business needs of the brand.
Description of Duties:
- Creates innovative design solutions - applies brand hallmarks, identity and guidelines.
- Applies Design Theme to ensure design consistency across multiple touch points.
- Collaborates to explore and execute Brand Architecture.
- Challenges the creative team to develop best-of-class solutions.
- Works with ADD to leverage new approaches and design tools for the client team.
- Actively aligns team to decisions that affect work outcomes.
- Uses design vocabulary to advocate design.
- Effectively works within budgets and timelines - understands talent to task while delivering innovative design solutions.
- Proactively and willingly helps other Studio Members to succeed - provides information as needed.
- Understands the role of Brand Architecture - able to develop BA solutions.
- Understands Design Theme - able to explore Design Theme solutions.
- Expert in information design knowledge and application.
- Recognized by professional peer group as a design leader - awards and/or publications.
- Understands the appropriate use of software programs in developing design solutions - is proficient in two or more software applications.
- Combinded degree and design/industry experience of 6 years or more.
- Asks questions to effectively identify the design challenge and the brand vision.
- Actively establishes the appropriate timeline for deliverling stellar solutions.
- Seeks to understand client dynamics from Account Team
- Voices opinions at the appropriate time
- Contributes solutions beyond what is expected
- Strives to develop the best work, self-edits to present quality versus quantity.
- Creates unique and ownable positioning for the brand
- Solutions reflect message strategies and hierarchies
- Inspires passion for design
- Demonstrates ownership of work and timelines
- Shares trends, techniques, and industry news with peers
- Shows professional respect and openness in communication
- Actively aligns the Design Director and Associate Design Director to work-in-progress
- Leads through influence - ensures design is helping solve business objectives and changing brand behaviors for target audience
- Explains design solutions with logic and terminology that clients can understand
- Delivers client objectives with design integrity
- Gossips success - builds credibility for design by actively speaking to successful examples of design applied within our client and the industry in general
- Proficient in the necessary programs and current techniques as required
- Shares ownership of Quality Control
- Responsible for utilization and billing time
- Identifies ways to be more productive and with greater flexibility
