Senior Designer

Job Type

Full-time

Description

The Senior Designer is a lead “maker” inside the ImagineCo Studio team. The role is charged with building diverse

visual products that visualize ideas, tell stories, communicate strategies, package research and insights, and

experiment with the development of tools to advance complex challenges. The role majors in creating design assets

as valuable work products and minors in a series of collaboration processes required to catalyze generative value

And New Content. What It Will Feel Like

• Tell Extraordinary Stories as an Extraordinary Communicator - Leverage your powers as a graphic
  
  

designer and visual communicator to help the company articulate the value proposition of our methods,

programs, and nuanced approach to new ways of working and creating impact in the world. This is no typical

brochure. We are committed to conveying inspired stories about what is possible. For us, the process is

the project. So, we must create assets, tools, dynamic media, cultural artifacts, and compelling insights

that invite people into a signature operating system that builds alternative better futures.

• Blend Problem Framing, Strategy, and Making - Become a member of a growing studio that sees design
  
  

as an integration, marriage, and entanglement of an idea to action lifecycle. We see design as a practice. A

practice that blends problem framing (what most people skip over), strategy (what most people offer other

departments and think is "business"), and making (the joyful part of invention we as designers are taught in

school). This role invites you to have a voice in all three domains, not just the third.

• Build Out an Imagination Operation System of Design Methods - Contribute to the capacity building of
  
  

the studio by building out, not just bespoke needs, but the systematization of our design capabilities. This

means: Tools, Templates, and Toys. Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! As we move from our Epic Decade

history to becoming ImagineCo, there is an opportunity to take our magical successful history of working

with companies like Apple and communities like Fort McMurray as singular customized expressions and

learn how to repeat our methods and insights without losing the magic. Being part of the design team means

experimenting with ways to build an operating system for our processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Be an active member of Studio Client "project teams" blending strategy, design, and the invention of new
  
  

ideas and solutions to complex challenges.

• Convert ideas, research, insights, strategies, frameworks, and storytelling into visual communication
  
  

assets as primary work products.

• Help produce the environments, experiences, and conditions that allow client teams to feel comfortable
  
  

actively collaborating through tools and social dynamics.

• Develop mastery over the ImagineCo and Studio specific methods and feel comfortable executing,
  
  

refining, and advancing them.

• Bring a passion discipline for the 1) highest quality aesthetic practices, 2) technical skills, and 3) fields of
  
  

design innovation to build a culture of excellence.

• Explore and experiment with new mediums to continue to advance the vehicles of impact the studio can
  
  

create with.

• Proactively explore solutions, foresee interdependencies, and anticipate opportunities to create tangible
  
  

and intangible value for all stakeholders involved.

Requirements

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university in graphic design and/or visual arts
• 3-years previously relevant work experiences
• Strong mastery of design visual theory (i.e., typography, color theory, composition, iconography,
  
  

infographics, data visualization, etc.)

• Online / digital portfolio that demonstrates strong graphic design and/or compelling user experiences
  
  

across a diverse range of projects

• Strong mastery of 2-D visual communication and collaboration software platforms & toolsets (e.g., Adobe
  
  

Creative Cloud, Figma, Mural, etc.)

Preferred

• Master’s Degree or commensurate experience
• Experience collaborating with team members from ImagineCo
  
  

Competencies & Attributes

• Master at anticipating needs and taking the initiative to act with a solution-oriented mindset
• Ability to keep multiple priorities on track
• Discreet, resourceful and energized by making things run seamlessly
• Thrives in a high-touch, attention to detail environment
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (e.g., articulating the WHY behind every “sketch”)
• High emotional intelligence, discretion, and professionalism
• Tech-savvy (always familiarizing with emerging technologies) with a can-do attitude
• Flexibility to handle a mix of strategic and tactical work
• Adaptable, with a growth mindset
  
  

REVENUE/BUDGETARY/STAFF RESPONSIBILITY

• n/a
  
  

Compensation Basis/Exemption Status

• Salaried; exempt
  
  

LOCATION & WORK ARRANGEMENT

• Primary location: Providence, Rhode Island
• Travel: Occasional travel locally and regionally for offsite business meetings
• Work arrangements: Blend of in-office and remote work (2-3 days in-office)