Mid-level Brand Designer
About the role
This role is to be based near our office in New York City (hybrid).
Responsibilities
- Conceptualize and execute creative work across brand, product, digital, and experiential touchpoints
- Establish visual tonality through image curation, typography, layout, motion-aware thinking, and storytelling
- Build dynamic, scalable brand systems that translate across physical and digital environments
- Manage projects from initiation to completion with support from Project Management
- Document design systems in clear, comprehensive guidelines and prepare production-ready files
- Ensure high-craft execution across all deliverables
- Produce design work with strong conceptual foundations and refined execution
- Shape presentations that communicate creative strategy and design decisions with clarity
- Integrate motion thinking through storyboarding or animation direction when relevant
- Collaborate with Strategy, Industrial Design, Creative Technology, and Client teams to translate insights into creative solutions
- Contribute to cohesive execution across all touchpoints
- Present work to clients and internal teams with confidence and clarity
- Provide feedback and guidance to junior designers
- Bring a culturally aware perspective to the studio and help foster a culture of creativity, experimentation, and thoughtful risk-taking
Qualifications
- 2-5+ years of professional design experience in a studio or agency environment
- Motion graphics skills
- Experience building dynamic brand identity systems including packaging design, motion design, digital experiences
- Portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, brand systems, art direction, and high-craft execution
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma; familiarity with motion or type design tools
- Strong typography skills are a must
- Able to see projects through to delivery including final graphic artifacts and guidelines
- Cultural fluency with a strong pulse on beauty, fashion, lifestyle, and consumer trends
- Passion for design, storytelling, and building brands that create cultural impact
Benefits
Not specified
Pay
$65,000.00 - $85,000.00
Schedule
Hybrid
Skills
Not specified
Benefits
Not specified
Company Information
Material is a global company and we work with best-of-class brands worldwide. We also create and launch new brands and products, putting innovation and value creation at the center of our practice. Our clients are in the top of their class, across industry sectors from technology to retail, transportation, finance and healthcare.
Material employees join a peer group of exceptionally talented colleagues across the company, the country, and even the world. We develop capabilities, craft and leading-edge market offerings across seven global practices including strategy and insights, design, data & analytics, technology and tracking. Our engagement management team makes it all hum for clients.
A community focused on learning and making an impact. Material is an outcomes focused company. We create experiences that matter, create new value and make a difference in our clients’ lives and their customers’ lives.