Sr Design Lead

Welcome to 10Pearls!  

We believe in harnessing the power of technology for social good through our core values: Innovate, modernize and accelerate.

 

Company Overview

We are 10Pearls, an award-winning digital development company, helping businesses with product design, development, and technology acceleration. We have a culture of innovation, uniquely designed to help companies transform, digitalize and scale by levering digital technology.

The Project

The Sr Design Lead is responsible for leading a team that delivers highly effective, aesthetic, on-brand, and on-strategy creative solutions for a variety of mediums within print and digital, including  web/app, email communications, email templates, social media graphics, banner ads. Graphic design for print materials including direct marketing, sales materials, magazines and environmental graphics. This role works closely with the account, copy and design teams to deliver on time creative solutions based on documented business strategies. The Sr. Design lead must be proficient in core Adobe Creative Suite applications for print and digital design work. 

 This role must have the ability to manage resource allocation, oversee individual contributors’ design work, follow workflow processes, deliver on-strategy and present concepts and creative solutions to leaders across the organization. 
 

Contributions: 

 Responds to, solves and makes decisions on all levels of communications requests  

• Responsible for delivering on time work that delivers business results 
• Leads discussions on strategy and solutions based on documented outcomes 
• Presents work to stakeholders and gathers feedback to share with the teams 
• Works well with others and communicates effectively 
• Manages time appropriately and meets deadlines as outlined 
• Performs other duties as appropriate. 

 

Duties: 

• Creates compelling visual designs in support of communications strategies across channels 
• Works closely with copywriting lead to develop effective campaign materials 
• Drives the design and/or front-end development consistency of all forms of communications across brands 
• Creates brand style standards and implements for consistency in visual identity 
• Advises on and implements tools and technology to deliver offline and online marketing messages  
• Turns marketing strategies and business objectives into effective consumer facing deliverables  
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure designs are compliant with usability, accessibility, and web standards, when necessary. 
• Works with developers to ensure proper implementation within a web environment and ensure consistency and integrity of the creative vision and brand standards 
• Works with creative and strategy teams to translate and create marketing requirements into compelling, appropriate campaigns and designs 
• Understands insights and customer data to effect visual delivery 
• Turns wireframes into simple, easy-to-use user Interfaces. 
• Provides design support to other business lines to create product graphics, logos, identity design, or other similar offline graphics 
• Leads and manages a team of designers, providing design direction and feedback 
• Stays up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in design technology 
• Aligns the team with strategic business goals and coordinating with other departments 
• Guides and mentors junior designers to refine their skills and improve decision-making 
• Works with clients to understand their design needs and translating these into clear design briefs for the team 

 

Experience and skills: 

• Management experience in a creative environment 
• A team player with a great attitude 
• Exceptional design skills 
• Strong communication skills and the ability to present creative work articulating how it delivers on a creative brief  
• Photography selection expertise within branded guidelines 
• Must know html, css, JavaScript (jQuery and REACT is a plus) 
• Technical understanding of Wordpress (Content and templates) 
• Knowledge of Figma design tool 
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite 
• Strong portfolio of design work, showing solutions to business problems through effective design.  
• Presentation skills and the ability to sell creative solutions to business leaders. 
• Experience in web marketing/web design with a strong knowledge of HTML, Photoshop, web design and development principles  
• Agile framework experience 
• Strong work ethic and personal accountability  
• Team focused 
• Strong customer focus and satisfaction skills required 
• Prepare art files to agreed to print pre-press specifications 
• Create environmental graphics for sales facilities, resorts or office spaces 

 

 

 

 

We thank you for applying to this job position, we’re more than thrilled to start reviewing your profile and great skills! This is the first step in our selection process, so you will be hearing back from our awesome recruitment team regarding the next steps 😀 

10Pearls Team