Creative Associate

The Design Rules Company•New York City, NY

About The Position

This multidisciplinary creative role spans design, photography, videography, and communication. The Creative Associate will help shape how the brand looks, writes, and feels across physical and digital media, supporting product photography, videography, graphic design systems, newsletters, and lightweight product storytelling. The role is suited to someone with strong visual taste who wants to develop quickly across multiple creative domains. The company is a small product design team focused on transit systems and cities. Its flagship product, Metroboard, is a walnut and aluminum art piece that shows live train movement through a city. The company is especially rooted in New York while creating work about cities broadly, with a focus on form through function and the curiosity, recognition, and wonder of seeing something familiar reframed.

Requirements

Strong visual taste and design sensitivity.
Comfort working across design, writing, and visual media.
Ability to work quickly without over-reliance on structure.
Interest in objects, cities, infrastructure, and physical design.
Familiarity with Figma, Adobe Suite, or similar tools.
Strong editorial instincts for tone and clarity.

Responsibilities

Assist with product and lifestyle photography direction and execution.
Create graphics, layouts, and visual assets for social media and the web.
Help develop packaging concepts and brand systems.
Contribute to the product design of upcoming products.
Write and edit copy for campaigns, product pages, and newsletters.
Help build and send email and SMS campaigns, including re-engaging an existing email list.
Support creative direction during shoots, especially for New York City-based lifestyle photography.