What You’ll Do
- Lead design strategy and direction for all initiatives, offerings, and critical milestones.
- Actively participate in marketing, brand, and design discussions, providing valuable feedback during planning and strategy meetings.
- Proactively take ownership of each project, from initial brainstorms to final production, with minimal instruction.
- Successfully manage project requests from various stakeholders, balancing workload to meet all deadlines.
- Utilize strong communication and organizational skills to define project scope, vision, deliverables, key messaging, and necessary assets.
- Quickly translate ideas and moodboards into sketches, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes, leveraging industry-standard tools.
- Manage relationships with external agencies engaged for specific projects.
- Ensure consistency in designs across all company deliverables.
- Participate in creative reviews with team members, incorporating recommended changes into final designs.
- Demonstrated experience in the design thinking process.
- Proven ability and flexibility to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
- Experience as a project manager and/or creative lead.
- Expertise with standard design tools, including Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
- Strong knowledge of current digital design best practices.
- A solid understanding of visual design principles, coupled with experience in user-centered design.
- A strong portfolio showcasing the breadth of your design capabilities.
- Strong work ethic and personal accountability.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Adaptability and flexibility to meet the changing needs of the business.
- A self-starter and effective problem solver who thrives in ambiguous and fast-paced environments.
- Ability to clearly communicate conceptual ideas and an openness to feedback.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong working relationships.
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.
Client Description
Aquent Studios is a global creative studio that delivers scale, speed and efficiency to the world’s most recognized brands. We create the work that matters the most to them—work that has a real impact on their business. As an Aquent Studios team member, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with the largest and most influential companies in the world, solving design challenges and extending their brands across tactic types and platforms, including digital design, UI/UX, video, motion, content, print design, web development, and more. If you want to do work that matters in a collaborative setting that values ingenuity and personal growth, you have found the right place!
Other Requirements
This Designer will work remotely but will be in the NYC area to attend meetings as required.
This is currently a 6 month role, but the intent is to extend the assignment.
Compensation Range: $100,000 – 110,000 DOE
The range provided is our reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and location.
