Senior Designer, Brand
About The Position
The Senior Designer plays a critical role in establishing, maintaining, and strengthening The Post’s visual identity across a variety of brand, marketing, and corporate touchpoints. This role is a key contributor within the Brand Creative Studio: our in-house creative agency that produces in service and promotion of our unparalleled journalism, people, products, initiatives, and events. Reporting to the Head of Brand Creative, this person will be responsible for pitching, designing, and/or commissioning compelling creative that adequately delivers on the ask from our internal partners. For projects of a certain scale, this role will lead design efforts among a creative “pod” of designers and copywriters behind a campaign, launch, or initiative. Across larger efforts, this role supports the Head of Brand Creative and other creative leadership in design execution. This role is based out of our New York City office.
Requirements
- Must include portfolio link for consideration
- Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts/Graphic Design/Visual Communications or commensurate experience
- 7-8+ years as a mid-to-senior level designer working with a creative team in Marketing, Advertising, Media or Publishing, preferably in an agency-like environment
- Expert in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, AfterEffects)
- Strong typographic sensibility
- Experience in animation and motions graphics
- Experience in paid social and working knowledge of platforms’ best practices
- Must be comfortable following design direction and implementing changes, balancing strong design with tight deadlines
- Unwavering attention to detail and an acute awareness that everything counts
- Up on current design trends and industry practice
Nice To Haves
- Photo and video art direction experience a plus
- Illustration or digital video editing experience a plus
Responsibilities
- Pitch, design, and/or commission compelling creative in response to creative briefs from internal partners and stakeholders: Brand, Events, Growth/Subscriptions, Product, Newsroom, Communications, HR, Executives, etc.
- Lead design efforts among a creative “pod” of designers and copywriters behind a campaign, launch, or initiative.
- Collaborate closely with Creative Operations Director, Copy Director, Copywriters, and Designers among project “pod” to bring studio’s creative concepts to life.
- Support Head of Brand Creative in visual execution of larger campaigns/efforts.
- Support Head of Brand Creative in regular design system maintenance.
- Contribute to brand book execution and maintenance
- Spearhead execution of new template builds
- Develop and maintain a library of high-quality creative executions across platforms, stock imagery, templates, spec guidelines, demo videos, etc.
- Participate in creative collaboration and regular alignment across The Post’s other design teams: News, Product, and Ad/Sales (Branded Content).
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
- Company-paid pension and 401(k) match
- Three weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave
- Nine paid holidays and two personal days
- 20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent
- Robust mental health resources
- Backup care and caregiver concierge services
- Gender affirming services
- Pet insurance
- Free Post digital subscription
- Leadership and career development programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
