25madison’s innovative brand, customer experience, and digital product agency, Creature Studio, is looking for a Brand Designer to join our studio team and serve as a key contributor to the design practice.
The Brand Designer will play a role in conceptual ideation, design development, production of brand and design project work streams for clients. This role will work in a fluid environment with strategists, content creators, design leaders to support and drive the development of industry leading brand experiences and marketing materials. The Brand Designer should have a finger on the pulse of trends and design innovation, understanding how to create best-in-class brand experiences across industries that connect with influential audiences.
This role is perfect for a talented visual designer who is looking for a range of opportunities and understands the role design can play in building successful businesses.
What you’ll do…
Build brands and creative experiences
- Participate in team brainstorms to assess business opportunities with a focus on the impact design can have on outcomes
- Produce mood boards, brand identity concepts, design systems, client ready presentations and production ready artwork
- Research and analyze the design industry and relevant client industries to inform and validate the design development process
- Ideate and develop brand systems from concepts through to delivery
- Produce brand assets and templates for teams to use within marketing and product development
- Define brands and experiences that are at the bleeding edge of the industry
- Support our client work and internal incubations through on-going design support in marketing, product and sales initiatives
- Support the development of design documentation (e.g., style guides, templates, component & pattern libraries) to ensure the successful delivery of brand & digital experiences
You have experience…
- In a brand or design agency environment (2+ years preferred)
- Working directly with client teams to turn brand concepts and mockups into delightful and sticky brand experiences for client audiences
- Researching and auditing brand experiences of businesses and categories
- Translating brand strategy into creative concepts
- Bringing clarity and definition to complex systems or brand experience challenges
- Creating modern design workflows and end use artwork across industry standard software platforms (Adobe, Figma, Microsoft Office, Canva, etc.)
- Developing print and production ready artwork for client delivery of brand systems, marketing collateral and design touchpoints
- Creating presentations and pitches for businesses that tell compelling stories
You are…
- A versatile designer that can zoom out to think about overall brand experience or zoom in to create simple brand assets or design touchpoints
- A hands-on contributor who enjoys building things; no job is too small or too large
- Experience with CSS, HTML and web tools (such as Webflow and WordPress) is a huge plus
- A designer with specialty skills that add to the team’s capabilities, such as animation or video
- Passionate about learning about the world, human behavior, and the motivations that lie beneath the surface
- Curious about the future of design and the role that AI and other technologies will play
- Prolific creator that has a passion for typography, illustration and all aspects of creativity
- An innate problem solver with an ability to tame the complex
- Self-motivated and can work with ambiguity; little or no direction required
- Comfortable balancing multiple projects and being flexible across a variety of industries
- Collaborative, transparent, and intellectually curious with a healthy balance of confidence and humility
- A strong verbal and visual communicator
Additional Requirements
- Based in the United States and authorized to work for a US-Based company
- A portfolio of past work or the ability to share and discuss work samples
- The ability to work remotely with a dispersed team