Design Director
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Company:
LippincottDescription:
About Lippincott/Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 60 cities across 29 countries Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy operations risk management and organization transformation. Our 5000 professionals help clients optimize their business improve their operations and risk profile and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wymans thought leadership is evident in our agendasetting books white papers research reports and articles in the business press. Our clients are the CEOs and executive teams of the top Global 1000 companies.
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Job Overview:
The design team plays a pivotal role in offering creative solutions to brand innovation and culture challenges. Whether its perfecting the cadence of a key presentation or discovering a new path to engage users in an online experience we lend the best of design thinking to the rest of our practices from Strategy to Organizational Engagement Innovation New Business and internal or marketing initiatives.
As a Designer Director at Lippincott you will work with teammates to help develop thoughtful beautiful design solutions. You will design innovative integrated solutions across a range of static dynamic and interactive media (print digital 3D motion and environmental). You will be both conceptually and idea driven focused on forging meaningful connections with consumers and businesses across a broad range of media. In addition to developing great design solutions you will also help manage projects by coordinating with team members both junior and senior and with clients. This role provides the opportunity to begin developing leadership skills and a unique discerning point of view as you contribute to the work.
Key responsibilities:
Design Creatively and Strategically
Leveraging firm resources initiate problem solving and develop preliminary concepts into refined comprehensive design solutions
Help guide the design development process from start to finish participate in team ideation help advance all concepts and check accuracy and quality of all deliverables to highest standards
Develop and write detailed and organized design and branding guidelines
Research and Build Ideas
Conduct design research contributing to communications audits and moodboard creation
Stay uptodate on trends and new techniques in the design world as well as best practices in user experience and interface design integrating those findings and understanding into the projects
Probe more deeply into concepts and design solutions when confronted with inconsistent and challenging findings
Develop case studies and public reference including storyboarding gathering materials updating exhibits etc.
Manage Time and Projects
Prioritize tasks to meet needs and deadlines across multiple projects and multiple teams
Anticipate challenges that may affect project timelines and address with Partners on the project
Work within budget and time constraints
Participate in managing projects as required taking a leadership role at times and prioritizing the workload for others
Document and archive all work and files logically and in a timely manner for team/studio access
Begin to act as a mentor to junior staff providing design direction and assisting in their development
Begin to assist in recruitment efforts
Communicate and Collaborate
Communicate project objectives clearly to team members and clients
Clearly articulate design ideas share research findings and explain thought process to team members both in writing and in person
Constructively participate in team ideation and design critiques
Share specific and actionable feedback to team members
Assist in producing and occasionally delivering client presentations
Be involved in maintaining the client relationship acting as a Lippincott representative working with and influencing junior client contacts participating in client calls and meetings and gathering and communicating feedback to the team
Assist in producing new business proposals
We look for you to:
Be Knowledgeable
A designrelated Bachelors degree or equivalent portfolio (postgraduate degree a plus)
5 years of graphic design experience in a professional setting
A proven ability to apply basic design principles to creative work across a range of experiences (print digital 3D motion and environmental)
The ability to incorporate inputs from strategy research and other disciplines into design development
The ability to think creatively while building on and relating work to past experience
An understanding of interaction design and development processes including information design and content architecture
Knowledge of motion/film and animation a plus
Be Skilled
The ability to design consistently across a range of static dynamic and interactive media (print digital and web threedimensional environmental etc.
Extensive technical ability with Adobe Suite and familiarity with MS Office; a working knowledge of digital prototyping and UX wire framing is a plus; a working knowledge of motion or film editing is also a plus
With a basic understanding of color management and media requirements the ability to prepare productionready assets and to package files for distribution and digital implementation
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
