Senior Designer

The design team plays a leading role in offering creative solutions to brand, innovation, and experience challenges. Whether it’s expressing how a brand shows up in the world or designing an onboarding user flow for a smartphone app, we inject the best of design thinking to into our practices, from strategy to innovation, new business, and marketing initiatives.

As a Senior Designer at Lippincott, you will work with teammates to help develop conceptual and highly crafted design solutions. You will excel in both form and function, moving seamlessly across UI/UX , logo design, typography and motion to deliver distinctive and cohesive brand experiences that are digital-first. You will be unafraid of a blank sheet of paper and best friends with Figma. Your team will look to you to combine fresh thinking with practical knowledge to make our work even stronger. This role provides the opportunity to gain client exposure and develop client management skills as you contribute to the work.

On an average day, you will:

Design Creatively and Strategically

• Develop preliminary concepts into refined, comprehensive design solutions

• Work closely with project teams, execute clearly defined project tasks and meet design goals

• Assist in developing detailed visual design systems

Research and Build Ideas

• Assist in conducting communications audits, including design research and moodboard creation

• Stay up-to-date on trends and tools in the design world, as well as best practices in UI/UX design, and be ready to share those findings with the team

• Help develop case studies and public reference, including the gathering of materials

Manage Time and Projects

• Prioritize tasks to meet deadlines across multiple projects, notify senior colleagues of scheduling conflicts early on

• With guidance, work within budget and time constraints

• Document and archive all work and files logically and in a timely manner for team/studio access

• Proactively seek out opportunities to contribute and go beyond what is simply requested

Communicate and Collaborate

• 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

• Assist in producing client presentations

• Participate in client calls and meetings and be involved in maintaining the client relationship as necessary

• Share specific, constructive and actionable feedback to team members as appropriate

We look for you to:

Be Knowledgeable

• A design-related Bachelor’s degree or equivalent portfolio

• 3+ years of graphic design experience in a professional setting or relevant graduate degree

• An understanding of how to apply basic design principles to creative work across a range of experiences (print, digital, 3D, motion and environmental)

• With guidance, the ability to incorporate inputs from strategy, research and other disciplines into design development

Be Skilled

• The ability to design consistently across digital and physical applications

• Experience with Figma and the Adobe Suite; a working knowledge of digital prototyping and UX wire framing is a plus; a working knowledge of motion or film editing software is also a plus

• The ability to work independently in the face of complex assignments and seek clarity when necessary

• The ability to think creatively while building on and relating work to past experience

• With a basic understanding of color management and media requirements, the ability to prepare production-ready assets and to package files for distribution and digital implementation

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong organizational and file management skills

Be Passionate and Driven

• Demonstrate high quality design that balances creativity and rigor

• A true enthusiasm for the evolution of design and branding

• A passion for design that is both beautiful and functional

• An unparalleled work ethic and desire to contribute and to collaborate with others

• A desire to proactively seek constructive feedback

• A desire to enhance and grow your skillset, learning about technology, media, production process, design applications, and working methods

About Lippincott:

Lippincott is a creative consultancy specializing in brand and innovation. We have a passion for solving our clients’ toughest challenges with a proven combination of strategic rigor and design excellence. A pioneer since 1943, we have shaped some of the world’s most iconic brands and experiences.

We recognize the benefits of flexibility but also value the interactions that happen when we come together. Our new hybrid working model allows individuals to set their own cadence for working in their preferred environment with the expectation that they will be spending at least half of their time (50%) in their local office each month.

Who We Are, Together…

We embody key values that drive our culture. We demand better, reach higher, and expect more of ourselves and our colleagues. We demonstrate gratitude, offer support, and embrace optimism every day. We celebrate debate, discussion, disagreement, and feedback, with an open mind to new ways of thinking and doing. We act with passion, intention, and goodwill while building on and elevating everyone’s contributions and sharing in our collective success.

In our pursuit to make it meaningful, we want our people to feel heard, respected and valued through our words and actions – goals we can only achieve with a sustained commitment to inclusion, diversity and belonging. We seek the best and brightest ideas from a diverse representation of backgrounds and experiences because we know that’s what it takes to continuously push the boundaries, solve our clients’ most complex challenges, and foster an inspiring culture of rigorous creativity. We celebrate and leverage our differences and our commonalities, so everyone feels safe, supported and encouraged to be wide open, to say “yes, and!” and to demand better of ourselves and one another. We aspire to be positive role models for inclusion at an individual level, corporate level, and societal level.

Lippincott is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions at Lippincott are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, national origin, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in locations where we operate. We are committed to promoting a workplace of which we can all be proud.

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