Creative Designer
About The Position
The Creative Designer will help shape Bridgewater’s visual identity and bring it to life across internal and external channels. This is a hands-on design role with significant creative ownership, focused both on developing the visual design system and producing work within it. The designer will partner closely with the Creative Director and the Head of External Communications and Affairs to create the tools, standards, systems, and assets that support the identity. The role involves refining Bridgewater’s visual language—including typography, color, imagery, graphic systems, and iconography—and co-developing practical brand guidelines and scalable design architecture. The designer will apply the system across touchpoints such as retail ads, recruiting materials, the website, and social media; translate complex concepts into clear, memorable graphics; and identify opportunities to turn individual solutions into reusable systems, templates, or principles. The successful candidate will bring exceptional craft, judgment, and taste, along with a systems-oriented approach, independence, and openness to feedback and iteration. The role is primarily onsite four days per week at the New York City campus. Some Client Service teams operate on a hybrid schedule alternating between the New York City and Westport campuses.
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of professional graphic design or brand design experience.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, and in Figma.
- Exceptional typography, composition, color, and layout skills.
- Experience designing across digital and physical applications.
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft, judgment, and taste, including a case study showing improvement through iteration and proven experience creating or applying brand guidelines.
- Ability and desire to spend most of the time doing hands-on design work.
- Ability to articulate design decisions, receive and apply feedback, and pivot quickly.
- Ability to work independently, experiment, and develop designs from loose ideas.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with a sophisticated in-house brand team, design studio, or creative agency.
Responsibilities
- Help develop and refine Bridgewater’s visual language, including typography, color, imagery, graphic systems, iconography, and other core brand elements.
- Co-develop practical brand guidelines and scalable design architecture with the Creative Director and Head of External Communications and Affairs.
- Apply the brand system across touchpoints such as retail ads, recruiting materials, the website, and social media.
- Produce distinctive, original creative work and continually raise the creative bar through experimentation and iteration.
- Turn loose ideas and sketches into strong designs, exercising independence while knowing when to seek input.
- Identify when design problems call for reusable systems, templates, or principles, and incorporate them into the shared design architecture.
- Work with writers, investors, and other partners to translate sophisticated concepts into clear and memorable graphics.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits suite, including health insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave, and other fringe benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
