Senior Designer

Company Description

We help grow many of the world's most iconic brands at Leo Burnett. We help
grow even more of the world's most talented people. You'll find at Leo Burnett
an agency built on ideas and dependent upon the people behind them. A culture
that doesn't just respect creativity but cherishes it. And a community where
the path you choose is your own, the places you can go limitless.
Today, Leo Burnett is one of the most awarded creative networks in the world.
We believe creativity has the power to transform human behavior, and we use
ours to help our clients' brands discover their "human purpose" and play
meaningful, active roles in people's lives.

Job Description

The role is for someone who is a solid designer, one with a unique design eye,
highly skilled with photo manipulation and compositing to conceptualize and
craft unexpected visual approaches. This position requires someone to create
visual solutions that convince clients, prospects, talent, and the marketplace
to engage with our brand. Someone to collaborate closely with a copywriter
partner, project manager, marketing directors, technologists, and content
specialists to bring these ideas to life for the audience and help grow the
brand and business.
Specific Duties:
* Ideate, craft, and execute the design of original and iconic creative concepts in response to client briefs, objectives, or goals
* Is responsible for the proper placement, context, and meaning of every image and graphic element within a creative assignment
* Develop creative ideas based on criteria in creative brief and/or direction from senior leadership, collaborating with team members, art directors and copywriters
* Provide a rationale for design choices; assure design meets business objectives whilst creating a compelling journey across touch points
* Research and identify trends in design language and branding and provide recommendations to our internal teams and partners
* Manage multiple projects from concept through to completion and takes ownership of the final products
* Collaborate effectively with Account Management, Planning, and the broader creative team to develop disruptive and iconic
* Support more junior team members and ensure work delivered is being done according to the brands ' standards and guidelines

Qualifications

You 're an artist. Every surface, every channel, every medium, social or
otherwise, is your canvas. You're just where people are
* ‎3+ years of work experience and a book brimming with brave ideas and outstanding craft, some that saw the light of day, and maybe some that didn't
* Extensive skills in editing, storytelling and animation
* Strong grasp of social media space and online media jargon and technology.
* Always up to date with latest animation trends
* Ability to organize the pipeline for multimedia team and streamline the workflow.
* Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced creative environment
* Naturally well organized and unfazed when working towards deadlines
* Have a sense of teamwork, and want to be part of a group of colleagues who take care of themselves, value themselves, and respect each other.
* Ease to express creative ideas clearly and concisely.
* Understand communication as an integrated "whole" and not as something on / off.
* Has strong technical design skills across a variety of programs.
* Understands the "best in class" use of each platform. Knows what it means to be making something interesting, engaging, and creative in the world today.
* Ability to concept innovative ideas and tactics that people will talk about. Always envisioning the potential outcomes of each idea
* A versatile team player; able to work alone or in a team and able to take direction from creative directors.