Freelance or Full Time Design Director Opportunity: Boutique Design and Branding Agency
Location: New York, NY **Also Open to Remote Candidates
Our client is an independently owned creative design agency focusing on innovative brand building. With New York, LA, Seattle, and UK offices, the agency specializes in branding, packaging, graphic design, retail environments, and brand strategy/positioning. Their work across both well-known and more niche consumer brands is compelling and visually stunning.
They seek a freelance or full time Design Director to join their NYC office and work across some diverse and interesting brands. The Design Director will work closely with ECD and/or CCO along with clients, cultivating and maintaining these important relationships. The ideal candidate is highly creative, has strong communication skills, exhibits great attention to detail, easily builds rapport with others and excels at managing and motivating team members.
Responsibilities:
-Advise on creative concepts and solutions, and ensure they are completed before all necessary deadlines
-Adhere to project timelines, manage project scope and effectively communicate project status to internal partners
-Provide quality control on all completed projects to ensure design quality and production accuracy
-Lead all phases of consumer packaging work (food, beverage and home care products)including research, strategy, concept exploration, design development and finalization
-Identity Design
-Brand Systems (Architecture, Guidelines, Extensions)
-Environmental Design (Signage, Retail Graphics/POS, Trade Shows)
Requirements:
-A self-starter with a degree in graphic design or illustration
-At least 6 years of experience working as a graphic designer on large scale CPG brands
-Extremely proficient in all core Adobe CS programs (Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign)
-Extensive knowledge of print pre-press and production
-Exceptional typography and strong hand skills
-Successfully manages shifting priorities, tight deadlines and last-minute requests
-Travel is a requirement of this position for client needs
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Send your resume to jodi@trurecruitment.com.