Graphic Designer

Aquent is partnering with a globally recognized brand, renowned for its customer-centric approach and innovative spirit, to find exceptional talent. This is an unparalleled opportunity to contribute to a core design team that crafts experiences impacting millions of people worldwide. As a Senior Designer, you will be at the forefront of shaping how customers interact with a beloved brand, driving creative innovation, and setting new standards for engaging and intuitive design. Your work will directly influence the brand's identity and its connection with a vast global audience, offering a chance to leave a significant and lasting impact.

**About the Role:**

Imagine your designs reaching millions, shaping how customers interact with a beloved brand every day. We are seeking a visionary Senior Designer to elevate brand experiences through compelling visuals and strategic design systems. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate closely with creative directors, writers, producers, and marketing professionals to concept and execute bar-raising creative that is customer-led and aligns with project briefs and stakeholder inputs. You will be instrumental in developing and maintaining brand system guidelines, ensuring consistency and excellence across all touchpoints. This is an exciting chance to contribute to a dynamic team where your creativity and strategic thinking will directly influence the success and evolution of a globally recognized brand.

**What You'll Do:**

* Collaborate with creative directors, writers, producers, and marketing professionals to design exceptional, customer-led brand experiences.

* Concept and execute bar-raising creative within a larger team, ensuring alignment with brand standards and project objectives.

* Focus creative exploration to align with project briefs, stakeholder inputs, functional requirements, and timelines.

* Develop and maintain brand system guidelines, ensuring consistency across multiple marketing channels.

* Respond to creative briefs with fresh ideas and strategic design systems, demonstrating a design-thinking approach to problem-solving.

* Professionally present your work with enthusiasm, articulating both inspired creative vision and logical thinking.

* Contribute to a self-directed work environment, demonstrating comfort with ambiguity and a bias for action.

**Required Qualifications:**

* 6+ years of design industry experience within an agency or in-house creative team.

* Demonstrated experience creating and/or developing brand identities and guidelines, along with familiarity working within established brand guidelines.

* Proven experience designing transformative interactive experiences through front-end user interfaces, narrative storytelling, systems thinking, prototyping, and creating production-ready assets.

* Experience collaborating closely with other designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers across organizational boundaries.

* Understanding of motion-related design elements.

* Strong grasp of the creative process, from ideation to implementation.

* Proficiency in design software including Figma, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Keynote.

* Deep understanding of typography, design principles, trends, and best practices across digital and print.

* Advanced understanding of design fundamentals related to typography, grid, layout, and accessibility, as demonstrated through a professional-level design portfolio.

* Proven bias toward action and an ownership mindset, driving projects forward with initiative.

* Creative and pragmatic problem solver with strong attention to detail.

* Exceptional communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.

**Portfolio Requirements:**

Your portfolio must include:

* Examples of systematic brand and identity development scaling across multiple touchpoints.

* Examples of product/UI/UX design where you were the primary designer.

* Examples of cross-channel user experiences for web and mobile.

**About Aquent Talent:**

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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