Work location: New York, NY
Company Contact: <mailto:Brian_at_luminary-labs.com>Brian_at_luminary-labs.com
Design Strategist
New York
The Role
Luminary Labs seeks a design strategist to lead
creative problem-solving in support of highly
innovative programs for our Fortune 500,
non-profit, and government clients. This role
also functions as our in-house creative director.
About You
You are a design strategist who thrives on the problems that matter.
Your natural ability to reduce complexity, tell
compelling stories, and identify novel
connections makes you a trusted partner to
clients across industries, and they frequently
seek your opinion across a range of creative and
strategic matters. You feel comfortable setting
the vision and managing execution across a range
of design disciplines, including design research,
graphic design, web design, experience design,
and visual media such as video and photography.
You feel comfortable executing directly on key
design deliverables as needed, and maintain
exceptional quality across your own work and that
of those you supervise. You are a leader who
empowers your team to achieve excellence. You
know how to give regular feedback and effectively
delegate. People love working with you, and for you.
You care about the impact your work has on the
world and have been looking for a career path
that is both high-performance and high-impact.
You are passionate about working at the
intersection of emerging technologies and the problems that matter.
Roles and Responsibilities
As a design strategist at Luminary Labs, you will
serve as our most senior Design & Insights team
member and be responsible for both client-facing
and internal Luminary Labs projects.
Client-facing:
Complexity busting: Serve as provocative
problem-solver, helping our consulting team to
structure information and identify common
threads. Quickly and intuitively grasp client
goals and advise on human-centered approaches to
workstreams like problem definition, goal alignment, and roadmap development.
Storytelling: Serve as creative voice across
strategy engagements, collaborating with our
consulting team to develop high-quality client
deliverables through different forms of
storytelling (e.g., presentations, digital
assets, infographics, illustrations, data visualizations).
Workshops and research: Design and facilitate
participatory workshops, stakeholder interviews,
user research, and prototyping exercises.
Ideation: Collaborate with consulting staff to
develop a creative vision and facilitate
divergent, generative thinking in project phases that require a new approach.
Synthesis: Work with consulting staff to uncover
novel insights from first- or second-hand
research—including raw data, surveys, intterview testimonials, and readings.
Creative direction: Serve as in-house creative
director for client-facing projects, including
print materials, digital graphics, videos,
photography, websites, and other deliverables.
Internal:
Design leadership: Lead our Design & Insights
team, supervising current on staff Designer and
developing the future vision and structure of the team.
Marketing: Collaborate with our marketing and
thought leadership teams to develop and express
the Luminary Labs brand and capabilities across platforms.
Brand standards: Shape the Luminary Labs style guide and visual language.
Skill-building: Support the team in developing
their own design skills by sharing knowledge and
best practices with the staff and working with colleagues one-on-one.
Desired Skills & Experience
* A total of 7 - 10+ years of experience; at
least 4 working in design and strategy for an executive audience
* Proven leader who knows how to grow and
inspire a team; passionate about the career trajectory of those around you
* Thrives in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
* Super-flexible, adaptable, realistic, practical, and agile
* Highly collaborative; gives and takes direction and feedback well
* Blue-sky thinker with experience leading creative brainstorming sessions
* Compelling storyteller across a range of
formats —” written word, imagery, spoken word
* Strong grounding in human-centered design
methodology and experience applying these
methodologies to research and workshops
* Experience with and interest in a range of
design disciplines, including graphic design,
service design, experience design, and design research
* Ability to organize and simplify complex
concepts and research using a range of frameworks and visual structures
* Clean design aesthetic with a strong eye for typography and images
* Superior attention to detail
* Expertise in Microsoft Office (i.e., Word,
PowerPoint) and Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
Does this sound like you?
Send us your resume and cover letter. In your
cover letter, show us three examples of ideas,
companies, or teams that you consider to be at
the forefront of innovation. Let us know your
availability for employment. Salary expectations
are helpful. If available, also send us examples
of your own work or thinking online (blog posts, Slideshare examples).
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Received on 2018-10-09 10:36:44