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Lippincott - Senior Designer

Design Observer
York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 12/25/2025 CLOSED ON 1/9/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lippincott - Senior Designer position at Design Observer?

The design team plays a pivotal role in offering creative solutions to brand, innovation, and experience challenges. Whether it’s perfecting the cadence of a key presentation or discovering a new path to engage users in an online experience, we lend the best of design thinking to the rest of our practices, from Strategy to Innovation, New Business, and internal or marketing initiatives.

As a Senior Designer at Lippincott, you will work with teammates to help develop thoughtful, beautiful design solutions. You will design innovative, integrated solutions across a range of static, dynamic and interactive media (print, digital, 3D, motion and environmental). You will be both conceptually and idea driven, focused on forging meaningful connections with consumers and businesses across a broad range of media. Your team will look to you to combine fresh thinking with practical knowledge to make our work even stronger. This role provides the opportunity to gain client exposure and develop client management skills as you contribute to the work.

On An Average Day, You Will

Design Creatively and Strategically

  • Develop preliminary concepts into refined, comprehensive design solutions
  • Work closely with project teams, execute clearly defined project tasks and meet design

goals

  • Assist in developing detailed design and branding guidelines

Research and Build Ideas

  • Assist in conducting communications audits, including design research and moodboard

creation

  • Stay up-to-date on trends and new techniques in the design world, as well as best

practices in user experience and interface design, and be ready to share those findings

with the team

  • Help develop case studies and public reference, including the gathering of materials

Manage Time and Projects

  • Prioritize tasks to meet deadlines across multiple projects, notify senior colleagues of

scheduling conflicts early on

  • With guidance, work within budget and time constraints
  • Document and archive all work and files logically and in a timely manner for team/studio

access

  • Proactively seek out opportunities to contribute and go beyond what is simply requested

Communicate and Collaborate

  • Clearly articulate design ideas, share research findings and explain thought process to

team members — both in writing and in person

  • Constructively participate in team ideation and design critiques
  • Assist in producing client presentations
  • Participate in client calls and meetings and be involved in maintaining the client relationship

as necessary

  • Share specific, constructive and actionable feedback to team members as appropriate

We Look For You To

Be Knowledgeable

  • A design-related Bachelor’s degree or equivalent portfolio
  • 5 years of graphic design experience in a professional setting or relevant graduate degree
  • An understanding of how to apply basic design principles to creative work across a range of

experiences (print, digital, 3D, motion and environmental)

  • With guidance, the ability to incorporate inputs from strategy, research and other

disciplines into design development

Be Skilled

  • The ability to design consistently across a range of static, dynamic, and interactive media

(social, digital and web, three-dimensional, environmental, etc.)

  • Experience with Adobe Suite, Figma and MS Office; a working knowledge of digital

prototyping and UX wire framing is a plus; a working knowledge of motion or film editing

software is also a plus

  • The ability to work independently in the face of complex assignments and seek clarity when

necessary

  • The ability to think creatively while building on and relating work to past experience
  • With a basic understanding of color management and media requirements, the ability to

prepare production-ready assets and to package files for distribution and digital

implementation

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong organizational and file management skills

Be Passionate and Driven

  • Demonstrate high quality design that balances creativity and rigor
  • A true enthusiasm for the evolution of design and branding
  • A passion for design that is both beautiful and functional
  • An interest in digital design (apps and sites)
  • An unparalleled work ethic and desire to contribute and to collaborate with others
  • A desire to proactively seek constructive feedback
  • A desire to enhance and grow your skillset, learning about technology, media, production

process, design applications, and working methods

About Lippincott

Lippincott is a global brand, marketing and experience consultancy committed to helping companies address their most complex brand challenges. Identifying fresh opportunities and realizing brand possibilities is our specialty. Since 1943, Lippincott has produced lasting, transformative impact for clients across a range of sectors.?As part of the Oliver Wyman group, Lippincott brings high-caliber industry and operational insights into our work, blending a management consultancy’s strategic rigor with a proven legacy of design and creativity.?

Who We Are, Together…

We promote a culture of collaboration and performance through our three core values:

We demand better, reach higher, and expect more of ourselves and our colleagues. We demonstrate gratitude, offer support, and embrace optimism every day.

We celebrate debate, discussion, disagreement, and feedback, with an open mind to new ways of thinking and doing.?

We act with passion, intention, and goodwill while building on and elevating everyone’s contributions and sharing in our collective success.

In our pursuit to produce?meaningful?change, we want our people to feel heard, respected and valued through our words and actions – goals we can only achieve with a sustained commitment to inclusion and belonging. We seek the best and brightest ideas from a variety of backgrounds and experiences because we know that’s what it takes to continuously push the boundaries, solve our clients’ most complex challenges, and foster an inspiring culture of rigorous creativity. We celebrate and leverage our differences and our commonalities so everyone feels safe, supported and encouraged to be wide open, to say “yes, and!” and to demand better of ourselves and one another. We aspire to be positive role models for inclusion at an individual level, corporate level, and societal level.

The applicable base pay for this role is $85K - $110K.

The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, and education. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position will be eligible for performance-based incentives.

We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health benefits, 401K savings as well as employee assistance programs.

Lippincott is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions at Lippincott are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications?without regard to race, national origin, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in locations where we operate. We are committed to promoting a workplace that we are all proud to be a part of.?

Salary : $85,000 - $110,000

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