Senior Graphic Designer / Wellington / Salary $80-90k

Are you an experienced multidisciplinary creative who will elevate the capabilities of the design team in this full-service creative and marketing agency?

This is a dynamic role in a fast-paced agency where you will oversee and implement various forms of design outputs for our diverse client base, ensuring they are fit-for-purpose and on-brand. You will take ownership of design strategies and manage design projects from beginning to end, ensuring design efforts meet both customers’ needs and business goals.

You will oversee and implement web design, branding projects, advertising and social media assets, print and digital design. Work will vary from same-day briefs to long-tail projects. You know Adobe Creative Cloud like the back of your hand and are comfortable creating in the major no-code web platforms.

You are someone who can capably traverse the scale between minutia and big picture. You’re intimate with the end-to-end experience of design objects and how those objects translate into business value for our clients.

As a leader you will also help to maximise the potential of the creative teams. You will coach and assist junior team members, with the capability to identify an individual’s strengths and weaknesses – helping them grow and bringing out the best in the creative department. Key to your success in this role will be your great people skills. You will be working on a mix of independent and team projects so we are looking for someone who is comfortable with both modes of working. You are confident, diplomatic and a keen learner (no matter the stage of your career).

Communications & Client Relationships:

• Participate in client meetings and lead them where directly responsible for design-related deliverables
• Participate in internal team briefing sessions
• Write reverse briefs for clients and contribute to project proposals, both the content and document design

Project Management:

• Working with the Creative Strategy Lead to scope projects; including time estimates, labour allocation and team members
• Map out project plans in their Project Management platform (Asana), including project milestones, due dates, task assignees, priorities and design workflow
• Oversight of design pipeline and delegation of workload to internal and freelance designer to ensure all work is completed on time whilst ensuring team members’ workloads are manageable/sustainable
• File management including back-up of working files, maintaining tidy folder and file structures, and exporting and managing client delivery assets

Design:

• Design strategy and research
• Ideation and execution of branding projects
• Develop art direction for advertising campaigns
• Create social media and digital advertising assets
• Design OOH art including billboards, billstickers and bus backs
• Design digital and print publications (including document design)
• Create website wireframes and flat designs
• Design no-code websites

About You

• Proficiency in the Adobe Creative Cloud including Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop; with experience working with Premiere Pro and After Effects
• Experienced across Web Design, Figma / XD, Squarespace, EditorX, Shopify, Webflow (ideal)
• Graphic design, Document design, Wayfinding & signage design (ideal), Illustration (ideal), Animation (ideal)
• An ability to multitask creative projects and flexibility to work in an ever-changing environment
• Excellent creative skills and a great eye for detail
• Strong communications skills – you love to grow relationships and work as a team
• Great time management skills – you can be relied upon to deliver on time and to budget

This role is a brilliant opportunity to join one of Wellington’s design studios and develop your design career with an incredibly talented team. Please apply with your latest CV and portfolio.

Send your CV to Hana Chadwick at The Creative Store, email hana@thecreativestore.co.nz, or call The Creative Store on (09) 365 1077 for more details.

Visit The Creative Store website www.thecreativestore.co.nz to view all our jobs online.

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