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As a Senior Designer, you'll lead design for marketing campaigns, collaborate with teams, and ensure high-quality deliverables while mentoring others.
As a Senior Designer on this team, you’ll be comfortable being responsible for developing break-through marketing campaigns that incorporate all communications disciplines for new Product Launches. You’ll working closely and collaboratively with both the creative and tech disciplines to create considered and elegant design solution for our client’s homepage and other, additional platforms. You’re also experienced leading a small team of designers and inspiring positive collaboration with stakeholders. You understand brand principles and style guideline and you appreciate an exceptional systematic design rational.
- Create original designs that align to project goals and overall creative direction, fluid templates and our client high standards.
- Collaborate with Art Directors, ACDs, and the larger project team to explore concepts and iterate on design layouts. Anticipate and solve for potential design challenges, as well as existing conditions.
- Prepare for creative reviews by outputting optimized files and presentation materials.
- Guide ideas to meet both creative and business goals within the project scope.
- Present persuasively and clearly articulate design rationale for project creative solutions.
- Consult with technical disciplines to ensure designs work within given limitations, and files are prepared with all necessary information to support the design intent.
- Review final deliverables with an exacting eye, ensuring that layout, images, and typography are flawless.
- Continually seek opportunities to refine design thinking and improve workflows.
- A minimum of 6 -10 year’s experience specializing in visual design for the web, mobile and/or app design.
- High proficiency in the formal elements of design, including typography, layout, balance, proportion, rhythm, emphasis, and unity.
- Ability to thrive in a challenging, fast-paced, creative workplace and to deliver quality design at a high volume in a tight timeframe.
- Photoshop expertise, including intelligently organizing files for design iteration, setting up files for web production, and adhering to graphic design standards.
- Reliable judgment to see when work may be “off track” and initiative to collaborate with others to find solutions.
- Passion for nurturing relationships, mentoring, and rallying teams to align around a vision.
- Ability to articulate ideas and be clearly understood by creative, project management and development staff, both in verbal and in written format.
- Clear communication and presentation skills that speak to both creative and technical audiences.
- Prototyping ability to convey preferred states, motion, and/or behaviors for interactive concepts.
- Strong understanding of web development, including HTML, CSS, iOS, and other technologies.
- Experience with digital creative tools including Sketch, Figma, Principle, Adobe Creative Suite, Powerpoint, and Keynote.
Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term
success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.
We continually review ranges to address skills, experience and markets. Base salaries are determined during our interview process, by assessing a number of factors that include, but aren’t limited to, a candidate’s experience and skills relative to the scope and responsibilities of the position. For current CM employees, tenure will also be a consideration.
Salary Range
$85,000—$95,000 USD
Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.
The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com, omc.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.
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Top Skills
Adobe Creative Suite
CSS
Figma
HTML
iOS
Keynote
Photoshop
PowerPoint
Principle
Sketch
Critical Mass New York, New York, USA Office
200 Varick St, New York, NY, United States, 10014
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