Lead Brand Designer - Culture Amp - Job details

Lead Brand Designer at Culture Amp

Marketing, Melbourne melbourne marketing design

Description

Posted a month ago

7+ years of experience working as a designer with-in a marketing function client side, or equivalent agency experience. Experience working in a fast growth business is highly desirable
A portfolio that shows strong strategic thinking and the application of innovative design ideas and systems for brand and digital marketing across applications such as user interface design, multi-channel campaigns, content marketing, activations and physical events
Proven experience managing and guiding a multidisciplinary team or direct reports, and contractors or creative agency partnerships to deliver complex creative projects end-to-end
Digital design knowledge and an interest in driving creative technology and innovation to optimise and scale design processes, templatise production and improve efficiencies with-in creative workflows
Creative problem solving and critical thinking skills to connect and simplify complex ideas and evolving project requirements
Excellent judgment in decision making, managing and communicating trade-offs when collaborating with multiple stakeholders
Excellent organisation and communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate the ‘why’, and lead discussions around your process, explorations, and conclusions
A growth mindset and drive to continually experiment with new ideas, develop and improve your skills
A passion for mentoring designers and growing design capability
Required technical skills and program competencies:
High proficiency with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) and familiarity with project management and marketing operations tooling, for example - Slack (comms), Asana (project management), Hubspot (email marketing) and Canva (templates).

Manage and guide a small team of design reports, contractors and agency partners (as needed) to deliver impactful creative and set new standards for brand and marketing design at Culture Amp
Own the concept development, creative direction and brand application for integrated campaigns and creative project delivery. Applications could include campaign identities, OOH, digital and micro sites, editorial content, reports, social media assets, video and experience design direction
Drive the development of audience focused creative (buyer, customer, segment, industry, region profiles) for brand campaigns and multi-channel marketing initiatives to meet business targets
Partner with marketing functions (demand generation, regional, product, brand marketing) to contribute to cross-functional planning and strategy discussions, and advise on creative resource management to achieve project and business goals
Inspire, motivate and collaborate with mixed creative disciplines; designers, illustrators, photographers, motion designers and video editors to develop high quality creative and provide feedback and clear guidance on execution to collaborators
Present a vision, concepts and solutions to stakeholders, communicate the impact of design in solving business problems, rationalise decisions and incorporate feedback
Facilitate and contribute to creative workshops and ideation sessions with creative partners and collaborators to drive research, experimentation and continuous learning
Mentor, develop and grow passionate designers to hone their craft and contribute to building a network of contractors and agency partners as the business scales

A collaborative leader and creative thinker. You understand what it takes to bring a diverse group of people together to bring new ideas to life
You are prepared to get in and deliver work. You are equally comfortable with design execution as you are leading a team to deliver the work
Progress over perfection. You are someone who is comfortable taking initiative and operating in an exciting but at times ambiguous environment with tight deadlines