SHADOW is seeking a Designer to join our Creative team. Working across experiential, branding, social, and integrated marketing campaigns, you'll help bring creative ideas to life through thoughtful design and compelling visual storytelling for a diverse range of consumer brands.
The ideal candidate has 3–6 years of relevant experience, preferably within a creative agency or working with consumer brands. You have a strong foundation in graphic design, a sharp eye for detail, and a passion for culture, creativity, and emerging trends. You're comfortable moving between different types of projects, from developing visual identities and campaign concepts to designing social content, presentations, and branded experiences.
Reporting to creative leadership, you'll collaborate across teams to develop and execute compelling visual work for both client-facing and internal projects.
We're looking for someone who brings ideas to the table, thinks beyond the brief, and takes pride in the craft of their work.
A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking and design execution is required.
What You'll Bring
- 3–6 years of professional design experience, preferably within a creative, advertising, branding, or experiential agency.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, exceptional design craft, and versatility across multiple mediums.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and Figma, with a strong command of typography, grids, composition, visual hierarchy, and brand consistency.
- Experience developing and extending cohesive visual identities across branding, social, digital, print, and experiential environments.
- Experience using AI creative tools for concept development, visual exploration, and high-quality mockup creation, with the ability to refine outputs to meet creative standards.
- Strong communication, organization, and time-management skills, with the ability to balance conceptual thinking, detail-oriented execution, and multiple project deadlines.
- A proactive, collaborative mindset with the confidence to contribute original ideas, take initiative, and a genuine interest in culture, design, fashion, beauty, and emerging creative trends.
- Bonus: Experience with motion design, environmental graphics, experiential design, or production processes.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with creative, strategy, and experiential teams to develop compelling ideas, contributing to brainstorms, mood boards, visual territories, and early-stage concept exploration.
- Translate creative briefs and strategic insights into thoughtful design solutions across branding, experiential, PR, influencer, social, digital, and integrated marketing campaigns.
- Develop and extend cohesive visual identities and design systems across multiple touchpoints, demonstrating a high level of craft in typography, composition, layout, and attention to detail.
- Take ownership of assigned design deliverables from concept through execution, including presentations, digital mockups, social content, event branding, merchandise, branded collateral, and production-ready assets.
- Proactively contribute original ideas, explore creative solutions, and confidently articulate design decisions while collaborating with art directors, designers, strategists, producers, and other cross-functional teams.
- Manage multiple projects and deadlines with increasing independence, communicating progress and challenges while collaborating with external vendors, fabricators, and production partners to ensure high-quality execution.
Please note that if you are to progress in the interview process, an assignment will be included as part of the candidate assessment.
A quick note: This job description is meant to provide an overview of the role and its core responsibilities, but it’s not a complete list of everything the position may involve. As our teams and business continue to grow, responsibilities may shift and evolve based on company and client needs.
Annual Compensation
$75K–$90K commensurate with experience
A quick note: This job description is meant to provide an overview of the role and its core responsibilities, but it’s not a complete list of everything the position may involve. As our teams and business continue to grow, responsibilities may shift and evolve based on company and client needs.
What We Provide:
- Medical + dental + vision insurance
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Dedicated mental health days
- Unlimited sick time
- Give Back. We want SHADOWs to extend their hearts and give back to their various communities and interests, on the clock! We offer 40 hours of paid VTO annually (voluntary time off)
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching
- Pre-tax commuter and healthcare benefits
- 12 weeks paid leave for new parents
- Individualized career mapping
- Summer Fridays (early close Fridays Memorial Day - Labor Day)
- Hybrid work schedule (1-3 days in office per week, depending on role)
While SHADOW intends to maintain these employee benefits, the Company reserves the right to modify, amend or terminate these benefits at any time and for any reason.
Additional Information
SHADOW promotes a diverse and high performing company culture. SHADOW is dedicated to providing equal opportunities to all qualified persons, and to recruit, hire, train, promote, and compensate persons in all jobs without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
SHADOW New York, New York, USA Office
414 W 14th St, Floor 3, New York, New York, United States, 10014
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