Manager - Brand Design

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview
As a key member of Stanford Health Care Marketing Communication team, this role requires an experienced designer who will be responsible for brand stewardship, specifically providing direction, guidance, and education related to brand standards, visual identity, as well as establishing best practices for governance. They will develop design solutions that are compelling, memorable, and on brand, ensuring great design is at the forefront of all brand communications. Additionally, they will oversee production design work and provide strategic direction in order to advance the organization to its potential. This role requires creativity, a solutions-oriented mindset, as well as strong influencing and project management skills. The successful candidate will operate efficiently in a fast-paced environment, have a systematic approach, and be able to navigate around ambiguity.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Provides direction and guidance related to brand standards and visual identity, both establishing and implementing best practices for governance.
• Oversees design requests made to the Brand Team and determines resourcing strategies for effective and efficient delivery of services to the organization.
• Partners with design agencies, Marketing team members, and other internal and external partners to support implementation of brand guidelines and maintains consistency across communications.
• Serves as subject-matter expert and point of contact for review and guidance around the application of brand and campaign standards across a variety of materials.
• Works on ad hoc marketing and communication projects to develop effective, brand-aligned design solutions, including building executive presentation material, sponsorship placements, promotional items, and more.
• Stays current on trends and platforms, acting as a brand evangelist, leading curation of thought-leadership, inspiration, and best practices.
• Develops and acquires images used in a variety of creative projects (corporate identity, packaging, presentations, promotional displays, signage, websites, etc.) and oversees the design, layout, and formatting of these materials.
• Manages relationships with production design vendors, print vendors, and photographers, including evaluation and fostering of new vendor relationships.
• Delivers consistent, high-quality results under tight deadlines while maintaining the engagement of contractors/vendors.
• Directs the financial management of the production cycle including estimates, budgeting, and resource allocation for production design.
• Presents on-brand and on-strategy creative solutions to BDDs and SHC Senior Leadership.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelors' degree or equivalent in graphic arts/graphic design/fine arts, communications, or a related field from an accredited college or university

Experience Qualifications

• Five years of graphic design experience. Studio experience preferred. Preferred
• Two years of management or supervisory experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Thorough understanding of design, processes including industry best practices as well as keeping current with color, typography, illustration, and phtography trends.
• Must possess a strong sense of concept development, in addition to communication, collaboration, research, problem-solving and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite is required.
• Exceptional presentation/speaking skills including presentation of creative concepts and selling direction to senior level clients.

Licenses and Certifications

• None

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford's patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family's perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.