Design Manager

Required Experience: 10+ Years.

Location: India (Remote)

What this job involves:

The job requires special skills and abilities to create visual presentations or imagery with the aim of communicating a message to the target audience. The design Manager’s responsibilities include supervising and executing activities including the creation of graphics, web page graphics, logos, illustrations, advertisements, brochures, and many other forms of visual communication.

He/she must understand the strategy, audience, and objectives behind complex design projects, provide appropriate solutions with minimal art direction and work with a variety of team contributors including marketers and various levels of management.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Managing and guiding the design team in the creation of different marketing assets for digital, print, social, and video projects and guiding them through regular mentorship and feedback.
• Innovating new approaches to graphic design problems and creating frameworks, templates, or optimizations for common speedbumps.
• Manage design projects and ensure timely delivery of projects to agreed scopes and timescales, including integrated projects where digital, print, events, media, and social media components all require coordination and cohesion.
• Experience as an art director. Strong knowledge of photography, video production, Interactive PDFs, and client pitch/proposal. Develop creative briefs based on ideas from brainstorming sessions, with direction, schedules, and deliverables for the creative team. Obtain team approval of final layouts, storyboards, and illustrations; encourage members to provide feedback; and respond to internal commentary and requests.
• Oversee presentation of final concepts and coordinate production and dissemination for cross-organizational use.
• Oversee project design and production, reporting any potential disputes, changing requirements or delays in a timely manner, and reviewing project performance.
• Create and maintain high-quality visual content for the company brand in both digital and print communications, including, but not limited to brochures, flyers, infographics, social media, web graphics, logos, emailers, event materials, and posters.
• Must have a superior understanding of the fundamental concepts of print and web publishing and graphic design principles.
• Stay on top of the latest standards, processes, and trends in the visual design field.
• The ability to receive, interpret and implement constructive feedback from project stakeholders in your design work.
• You have a team-oriented attitude and the ability to contribute to design- and functionality-related marketing decisions.
• Strong work ethic: Takes initiative and can self-manage. Resourceful when approaching projects, can navigate through obstacles to bring projects to fruition, and can effectively multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s in fine arts (preferred) or graphic design field.
• 8 to 10 years of relevant experience including at least 4 years in managing a diverse creative team.
• Strong creative vision and visual arts skills with an established portfolio of business-to-business print and digital marketing collateral
• A high level of proficiency using Adobe Suite including InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop along with a good knowledge of PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Excel. Lean Six Sigma certification is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to clearly explain design decisions in words and writing.
• Demonstrable ability to work proactively and autonomously and be accountable for own decisions.
• Ability to work confidently with internal stakeholders and external suppliers at all levels and with different personality types, influencing, and negotiating skills.
• Positive, demonstrable people management skills.