Our Boston based professional services client is looking for an onsite Graphic Designer for an immediate hire; this role is onsite 3 days a week in Boston and remote 2 days a week. You'll be supporting multiple locations for the company but work primarily with the Boston creative team; mentorship and and collaboration are a big part of this role so looking for someone who is seeking to grow and inspire a team. Projects will
Responsibilities:
- Create designs for internal and external initiatives and events, annual reports, invitations, posters and signage, environmental graphics, email, web, social media graphics, infographics, ads, case studies, PowerPoint templates and presentations.
- Work collaboratively with departments to create materials
- Be a hands on mentor to more junior members of the Design team.
- Work with print vendors to secure quotes and ensure project/color quality, delivery and deadlines are met.
- Maintain consistency with brand voice
- Create, high-fidelity comps and visual design assets for web and mobile applications).
- Lead and collaborate with team members to solve business objectives via user-centric design solutions.
- Help to formulate our internal design strategy and ensure visual design excellence.
- Oversee designs through the review process, collect and incorporate edits through multiple iterations until project completion.
- Photo retouching and editing
- Assume additional responsibilities as requested.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree required.
- 5+ years’ experience in graphic/visual design, ideally
- Skilled with design and layout concepts, typography, color management, and finding andstock photography.
- Skills in color palette construction, iconography, and infographics.
- Working knowledge of interaction design and user-centered experience design, with animation and motion graphic knowledge as a plus.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills.
- Highly conceptual thinker in both visual and interaction design.
- A desire to help mentor and grow team members.
- Adaptive design eye and skill.
- Overall understanding of professional press production, pre-press procedure, and specifications.
- Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure, prioritize competing demands and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong sense of ownership and responsibility for project quality and deadlines.
- Proven project management skills, including ability to estimate how low design projects may take from start to finish accurately.
- Excellent attention to detail with emphasis on accuracy and quality.
- Demonstrated ability to professionally interact and collaborate with colleagues at all levels.
Required Technical Skills:
- Proficiency with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma and XD
- Experience with MS PowerPoint, MS Word, Excel and Adobe Acrobat Pro.
