Strategic Visual Designer

Strategic Visual Designer

at Relish Works

Chicago | Full Time 

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We are Relish Works, an innovation hub focused on the future of the foodservice industry. Relish Works operates as an independent start-up working with a top wholesale food distributor to identify growth opportunities and create user-centered solutions for the industry.

We are a group of passionate practitioners looking to add a Strategic Visual Designer to our Chicago-based innovation studio.

About the role:

The Strategic Visual Designer will visualize research findings, illustrate new futures and pitch ideas for new strategies, businesses and service offerings in the foodservice industry.  You will collaborate with interdisciplinary project teams of strategic thinkers and doers who have skills, experience and expertise across user research, experience design, business strategy, and project management. 

This role is best for someone who is a curious, creative, visual-thinker with the ability to leverage their design and storytelling skills to communicate research findings and illustrate future experiences, concepts, services and systems. A designer in this role will know how to push visual boundaries and bringing new ideas to the table, without sacrificing clarity of message. 

Your day to day could be a combination of any of the following: 

• Synthesizing and visualizing qualitative and quantitative research into diagrams and infographics
• Creating frameworks to structure the thinking behind new concepts
• Communicating new insights and ideas through wireframes, illustrations, presentations, print pieces, and videos
• Creating brands, experiences, and engaging content behind new business ideas to test in market
• Designing and developing executive level communication materials: Google slide presentations, decks, corporate communications
• Collaborating with talent and leveraging resources and expertise across Relish functional areas (innovation, ventures, investments)
• Opportunity to mentor junior designers and interns

You should apply if you have:

• A bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in visual design
• 3-5 years of experience in human centered design and innovation (cross-industry consulting experience preferred)
• Ability to frame problems and engage with an executive level audience
• Excellent facilitation and verbal communication skills 
• Strong written and visual communication skills
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to thrive in a self-directed culture
• Openness to learn from diverse perspectives and collaborate on multidisciplinary teams
• Motivation to solve end-user challenges, meet stakeholder needs, and deliver on business goals
• Desire to work on a lot of different types and sizes of projects 
• Aspiration to work in a startup environment where we move fast
• Willingness to ask questions
• A learner mindset - you are always interested in expanding your knowledge and perspective 

You will thrive if you align with our values:

• Our team is inclusive, passionate, resourceful, and dependable. We are a team of problem solvers who have super powers in strategy, research, design, and communication. We prioritize collaboration in our work and expect our team members to feel accountability for all parts of the business, not just their discipline.

This role is based out of Chicago - our offices are located in River North. You must be in the Chicago/Chicagoland area, or planning to relocate to the Chicago/Chicagoland area, to be considered for this position.