Senior Designer
Sydney
Designers are at the heart of DesignStudio. As a Senior Designer, you will be a key member of the team, supporting Design Directors and Creative Directors to shape design, guide teams and unlock the creative potential of projects.
We expect you to be the driver of a creative output of a project, a confident storyteller and an amazing designer.
You will require flexibility and a willingness to apply design-thinking across all stages of the creative process; research, strategy and expression.
Working with teams and clients to develop design ideas and discover new opportunities.
Key qualities
- Love of design
- Energy and enthusiasm
- Proactive
- Collaborative team player
- Friendly and welcoming
- Experimental
- Relentlessly learning
- High level of professionalism
- Good time management and organisation
- Connected to culture, with an awareness of trends both old and new.
- Willing to work on anything
- Fast and organised
- Multi-disciplined
- Adaptable
- Good with detail as well as the bigger picture
- Excellent creative standards
- Excellent time management
- Dedicated, passionate and challenging
- Strong conceptual ideas
- Good leader of people
- Self motivated and energetic
- Curiosity and a deep interest in the world
Responsibilities
Lead the creative output of projects
through every stage, supporting any design related tasks; from immersion, to strategy, to creative expression and implementation.
Manage and distribute work
within the team, and oversee design work to ensure the creative brief is fully explored from concept to completion.
Generate interesting creative work
with strong conceptual and strategic foundations.
Apply and coordinate design delivery across any touch-point
supporting Design Directors and Creative directors to ensure that work gets delivered on time and to a high standard.
Effectively distill and communicate direction
to the team after client feedback or after internal design reviews.
Pursue and maintain an exceptional level of craft
with the highest design standard and an attention to detail.
Create high quality presentations
of creative work internally and externally.
Manage external suppliers
to ensure they deliver to good standards.
Go on immersion trips
with design teams to collect primary research for projects, wherever clients may be.
Collaborate with client teams
and direct client contacts.
Key skills and requirements
Broad experience
Formal training in design or relevant experience. Shows a love for design and shows an ability to execute amazing design work. Most likely you’ll have at least 5+ years of industry experience.
Excellent varied portfolio
Work that demonstrates concept-driven design and superbly crafted execution. Work should show versatility, experimentation, system-thinking and energy. Significant brand identity and digital project proof within the industry. Has worked on print and digital executions from start to finish.
People skills
Comfortable working as a team and confident to take part in interviews, workshops and interactions with clients.
Flexibility
Able to flex and be confident working within any industry, with any type of person, anywhere in the world.
Excellent presenter
Excellent communication and presentation skills. Able to put an attractive and compelling presentation together.
Broad tool-kit
High level of skill in typical design programs (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Sketch). Understanding of peripheral design processes (production, liaising and briefing suppliers).
Bonus tool-kit
Experience in animation, coding and interaction design a bonus (2D animation software, 3D animation software, prototyping tools, coding languages).
Senior Designer
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