We are seeking a creative, engaged, strategic-minded Brand and Graphic Designer to join a team interested in exploring the overlap between architectural design, strategic narrative, and spatial branding.
You Will Create Impact By
- Embracing project goals and concepts and helping develop and drive design that supports them.
- Providing creative initiation of design ideas, both independently and with teams.
- Offering and actively soliciting constructive and clear critical design feedback.
- Communicating complex ideas with clarity: visually, verbally, graphically, and in writing.
- Being passionate about design and having a point of view
- Caring as much about the culture and people you work with as the project.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design conversation throughout the full project duration
- Produce multiple iterations of design options in early stages of the process, and of equal importance, developing and refining them all the way through to a final, deliverable product.
- Actively engage with all disciplines, including Architecture, Strategy, Interior Design, Graphic Design, and Brand Design, to produce integrated projects
- Work closely with architectural teams to design strategies and generate narratives, and produce the communicating materials to express them with graphic clarity and punch
- Communicating complex ideas with clarity—graphically, verbally, and in writing—to both internal teammates and external partners, including down to earth and professional client engagement
Qualifications
- +/- 6-10 years of a mix of hands-on branding, graphic design, and spatial design experience in a design-focused architectural office or similar.
- Work examples that demonstrate, in addition to technical acumen, a sophisticated design sensibility
- Professional degree in architecture, branding and/or graphic design, or a closely related field, from an accredited institution. While not required, a background in architecture is highly desirable.
- Expert digital and physical graphic production, through demonstrated skill with the following programs/devices: Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop), Google Workspace (Slides, Sheets, Docs), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Digital and hard copy printing
- Experience with the following programs, helpful but not mandatory: Adobe Aftereffects or other motion/animation platforms, AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino
- Excellent English language communication skills
- Legally eligible to work in the United States, without need for employee sponsorship
- Available to start within 2-3 weeks of interview
- Currently living in NYC area and/or willing & able to relocate quickly
