Job Description
Position Overview:
The Senior Designer - Brand Experience (BEx) is creative, positive, flexible, willing to take risks and roll up their sleeves to deliver exceptional work. As a member of a collaborative team, you’ll work in tandem with the interior design team to create cohesive, thoughtful environments. You’ll need to be a confident project leader, a resourceful problem-solver and being a strong team player is critical.
You will be a key player on the BEx team leading the project team and clients to meet and exceed project goals. It will be your job to utilize your design experience to develop branding, identity, environmental and experiential assets that capture the essence of the overall project narrative.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Responsible for leading the planning and delivery of the brand experience work on projects from concept through install and able to align brand experience deliverables with overall project process
- Lead clients through the project process as the BEx main point-of-contact while aligning with the interior/architectural design team to ensure that the experience aligns with the overall project vision and goals
- Collaborate with the BEx team to conceptualize various components of the projects touch points as well as design the deliverables that are required to convey the desired message
- Mentor, guide and inspire designers to be and do their best and exceed expectations
- Interpret client requirements into creatively designed and customized work and graphics
- Keep up to date on latest trends as well as design inspirations and innovations.
- Generate conceptual designs using a variety of graphic techniques, including hand-drawn and computer-generated visuals
- Excellent typography and composition skills
- Excellent production-ready art working skills for environmental graphic, signage, wayfinding design, etc.
- Work with brand experience team to prepare design documentation and pitches for new and existing clients
- Work with project leaders to maintain project schedules with appropriate deliverables
- Oversee the design intent and provide detailing support for construction documentation and construction of projects
- Work with BEx team for quality control on all final deliverables
Job Requirements:
As a Senior Designer - BEx, you are an experienced, out-of-the-box thinker, with a knack for delivering awe-inspiring designs. You are a natural-born storyteller that can develop new concepts and inspire those working with you. Never turning away from getting your hands dirty, you are continuously learning to appreciate the value in others, you have a natural flame, with a passion and positivity that raises excitement in people around you. You are a leader and a natural-born mentor always striving to lift others around you through education of the process and craft.
Qualifications & Key Competencies:
- 8+ years of experience working within an advertising agency, creative studio, an in-house marketing team or media organization workplace/ interior graphic design, branding, visual identity design or architecture.
- Prior experience leading project teams in environmental graphics, wayfinding and signage, brand design or related.
- Bachelor's degree in Design or another related field preferred.
- Proficiency in the latest graphic design software required (PS, Illustrator, Figma, SketchUp, InDesign, etc.)
- Strong understanding of steps necessary to take a project from concept to launch and ability to lead a team through the process.
- Ability to work in an agile, dynamic work environment.
- Excellent time and project management skills to be able to meet project deadlines.
- Excellent eye as a designer with a broad awareness of trends in design.
- Creative ideas and a love for the craft of design in all forms.
- Experience with print production, fabrication, vendor coordination, site installation and punch listing.
- Experience in branding for hospitality or retail environment is a plus.
- Bonus points for work in experiential design through brand activations, art installation, interior design, digital solutions, or other immersive environments.
Note: MMoser is an equal opportunity employer