Visual Experience Designer

The Visual Experience Designer is responsible for developing and executing impactful visual design solutions for a diverse range of interdisciplinary projects.

Requirements

• Must be able to work on-site in our NYC Studio (Hybrid)
• Travel required (domestic and global)
• Must reside in the NY/Tristate Area
• Must be eligible to work in the United States
• Please provide a link to your portfolio or website

Responsibilities

• Develop an understanding for Local Project's ambition, process and culture
• Be a proactive member of the Visual Experience Department
• Collaborate with strategists, content developers, UX designers, creative technologists, etc. to develop original ideas
• Visualize concepts via impactful visual experience design
• Design, iterate and execute across a variety of interdisciplinary projects and media
• Establish conceptual frameworks to solve complex design challenges
• Create smart, refined and impactful visual systems
• Push for aesthetic sophistication
• Develop a point of view and communicate concepts and arguments to staff and leadership

• Ensure integrity and quality of visual direction throughout all phases of a given project and esp. when translated to linear media, interactive media, and physical environments

• Lead and/or execute and/or support from ideation through design/development, asset production and launch with the fidelity needed for effective team collaboration at each phase
• Flag stumbling blocks and provide ideas for solutions
• Support and mentor junior designers
• Coordinate with project team members to clarify design dependencies (hardware and software specs, content specs, architectural specs, etc.)
• Provide accurate time estimates
• Meet deadlines and expectations established by project leads
• Pursue professional development (workshops/classes/conferences)

Required Skills/Abilities

• A design degree (graphic, interaction, communication, media design, or a related field)
• Outstanding design skills exhibited in a diverse and impactful portfolio
• A proven record of coming up with unique visual expressions
• An interest for developing unprecedented solutions that actively engage audiences
• Think strategically and conceptually to work with complex content
• Translate narratives into visual experience design
• Establish and work with elaborate design systems
• Understand and execute spatial design concepts
• Actively experiment, iterate and push conventions
• A strong point of view on visual experience design
• Strong typographic skills
• A solid understanding of user-experience, interaction design as well as the workflow of time-based and interactive media
• Experience in designing for physical spaces, animation and motion graphics is a plus!
• An awareness of contemporary trends in technology, art and design
• The ability to thrive in a fast paced creative environment
• Experienced in collaborating on teams, working autonomously and taking direction from project leads
• A highly self-motivated and ambitious work attitude
• An empathetic nature with an open, positive mindset
• Reliable and responsible
• Precision, detail and solution orientation

Education/Experience

• A design degree (graphic, interaction, media design, or a related field)
• Minimum 3 years experience in a related field

Salary

70K to 85K Commensurate with Experience

Benefits

Local Projects offers to its Full-Time staff Health/Dental/Vision, FSA, 401k, access to Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance and Life Insurance as well as a generous PTO package.

Local Projects is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Our collaboration with each other and the experiences we create together greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across all disciplines, at all levels of the studio. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color, and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

Local Projects is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity, and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.