Pay Range: $60/hr. to $65/hr. , the pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications.

Featured Benefits:

• Medical Insurance in compliance with the ACA
• 401(k)
• Sick leave in compliance with applicable state, federal, and local laws

Top 5 Skills Required

• Part Time 20-30 hours per week
• Conceptualizes, plans, produces, and/or refines a diverse range of creative ideas/concepts, specialized graphic, and/or illustrative material against a set strategic brief.
• Communication skills: Owns and is accountable for assigned projects while understanding deadlines and budgets and maintaining quality of output. Pro-actively manages up with the practice leads and leadership to provide insight and feedback on project status and their work.
• Knowledge of design and proficiency in design software: Adobe Creative suite, Animation, and After-Effects.
• Design systems experience.
• Multi-channel digital first experience.

Job Description

• A Lead Designer is a primary project team member who takes ownership over design discipline-specific work on projects to help create enduring brand love through expertise and leadership.
• Consistently creates complex, original design concepts, and oversees and coordinates production of deliverables.
• Responsible for refining design iterations for projects.
• Delivers against the Client strategic and values.
• Develops creative approaches in accordance with Client brand identity and design principles.
• Balances creative excellence and brand standards with the needs of the business owner and communication objectives.
• Collaborates frequently with other departments (e.g., Strategy, Insights, Project Management, Brand Management, Business Units, and Marketing) to ensure project success.
• A Lead Designer begins to act as the practice expert in relationships, often cultivating a meaningful rapport of trust and credibility.
• 25% Conceptualizes, plans, produces and/or refines a diverse range of creative ideas/concepts, specialized graphic and/or illustrative material for team consideration against the set strategic brief.
• 25% Owns and is accountable for assigned projects and will manage all aspects of the assignment, team, contractors, the creative work, and presenting.
• 25% Owns and is accountable for assigned projects/brands and will manage all aspects of the assignment, team, the creative work, and presenting.
• 20% Pro-actively manages up with the practice leads and leadership to provide insight and feedback on project status and their work.
• 5% Communicates effectively verbally as well as visually, presenting design rationale during internal/external presentations/critiques..
• 5% Demonstrates effective problem-solving skills while leading and is accountable for a variety of assigned projects and multiple teams while understanding deadlines and budgets and maintaining quality of output.

Education/Experience:

• BFA/BS (or equivalent experience) in design.
• Minimum of 3-7 years of related experience in design.
• Technical and software skills related to the discipline.
• Ability to draw or represent design thinking using the traditional design tools, including hand skills.
• Thinking strategically as well as aesthetically.
• Effective visual, verbal, and written communication skills.