Material Looking for Brand Designer at New York, NY Full Time

The Brand Designer we’re seeking loves brands. They’re excited by beauty, fashion, lifestyle, and packaging. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in graphic design, typography, and building brands across a 360 sphere, they understand how to tell unique visual stories through presentations and how ultimately to bring a brand and products to life. The candidate should also have a strong pulse on trends – what’s happening today and what’s happening next – and ultimately bring a fresh perspective and positivity to the table. Our environment is highly creative, fast-paced, fun, and collaborative.
We’re looking for highly creative, strategic, thinkers and makers – we listen, learn, reinvent, design, and make stuff, come join us!

What we expect:

• Managing yourself and the project teams workflow and allocations
• Works collaboratively to communicate creative direction to team and peers
• To be a strategic creative thinker, and lover of brands
• Organizing self and project partners in order to be able to share with Design Directors, Partner & VP of Creative, and Co-founders
• Inspiring self to continue to elevate your work
• To be able to take a project from end to end, from conception through to manufacture/realization

What it will take:

• 2 – 3 years of experience
• Demonstration of design excellence and expertise throughout your career
• Must have a solid understanding and desire to keep up to date with innovation trends, industry trends, and design trends with a specific focus in beauty, fashion and lifestyle
• Exceptional understanding of brands across a variety of industries / Strategic thinker with strong vision and ability to present well
• Strong packaging and systems experience, understands how to realize a physical product from concept through to actualization
• High design aesthetics, typography, great taste, and interest in developing art direction in relation to brand
• Good understanding and experience of bringing a brand to life in the digital space
• Good understanding and ability to bring a brand and physical product to life
• Strong concept and visualization skills / strong presentation and communication skills
• Excited to continue to learn and grow
• Degree in Graphic Design or equivalent experience
• MS Office proficiency
• Adobe Creative Suite proficiency
• Strong written and verbal English communications skills

About Us:
Material is an analytics-driven marketing services firm powered by sophisticated analytics and deep human understanding. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in LA, the company has grown consistently for nearly 50 years and currently has 1200 employees in 20 offices including NY, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, and London. Material has actively acquired a portfolio of businesses to build a unique, integrated marketing services business with key capabilities in analytics, intelligence, and experience for an array of top-tier clients in entertainment, tech, retail, healthcare, and packaged goods.

Material+ is an Equal_ Opportunity/Affirmative_ Action Employer oriented toward inclusivity. We celebrate diversity, not just in commitment but in action. We get it and hire people who do, too.
We offer

• Competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, 401k matching, paid time off, paid parking, casual dress, company-wide and team events
• Centrally located offices in energizing cities around the country along with hybrid and remote work options
• Performance-based culture and endless opportunities for growth

Job Type: Full-time