Freelance - Design Lead, Keynotes & Events

Hi. We’re Article Group, a product marketing agency. We are built to service the unique needs of innovative product companies. 

That means we often work with product marketers at some of the most well known tech companies around (think: Google, Meta, Amazon, Salesforce etc.). It also means we’re a great partner for startups and early stage companies looking to leverage our suite of strategic and creative capabilities. 

We focus on applying smart strategy, storytelling and creativity to areas we believe are most useful, and can always be more beautiful or interesting.

Contract Design Lead, Keynotes & Events 

Overview 

Hi. We’re Article Group, an agency built for innovative product companies. 

That means we often work with product marketers at some of the most well-known tech companies (think: Google, Meta, Amazon, Salesforce etc.). It also means we’re a great partner for startups and early-stage companies looking to leverage our strategic and creative capabilities suite. 

We focus on applying smart strategy, storytelling, and creativity to areas we believe are most useful and can always be more beautiful or interesting. 

Role description 

The Contract Design Lead at Article Group leads visual thinking and design development across large-scale, live events. You will be accountable for creative problem-solving and project-level team leadership, and contributing to client-facing deliverables in a “hands-on” manner. 

As a project lead, you will translate content outlines into dynamic slides and animations for 100+ ft screens and audiences of 6,000+ while ensuring that work products are useful, beautiful, and on-brief. This presentation will be done in PowerPoint, with both in-PPT animations and external animations storyboarded by the CDL and integrated into the main deck by a motion designer. This position requires a high level of ownership, cross-functional collaboration, strategic thinking and creative concepting for abstract themes. If you're early in your career or still developing these skills, this role may not be the best fit just yet.

As a design lead, you will be a trusted resource for designers working within your program and/or adjacent programs, helping them with challenges around ideation, raising their craft, applying fit and finish, and bringing great work with coherent reasoning back to their teams. 

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As a craftsperson, you will bring your design skills to making and elevating work for clients and the AG brand. 

Your background skews towards keynote and presentation design, art direction, and visual storytelling. You are capable of direct partnership with strategy and engagement leads to identify client problems and plan project-level processes. You can lead the creative effort by example as both a doer and delegate of tasks while giving concise, actionable feedback to team members of all levels. Ultimately, you are responsible for crafting and advocating for the integrity of the core creative vision with team members and clients. You will work in a remote environment and work within your time zone for many of the agency's clients on the East/West Coast. Travel for on-site events will be required. 

Key responsibilities: 

• Leads a project team and manages creative processes and deliverables from conception through final delivery 
• Consults with visual creatives to push their work and their craft 
• Advocates for the creative team to senior clients within workshops, presentations, and problem-solving activities 
• Improves internal efficiency and effectiveness by designing or refining workflows and guiding colleagues through process change 
• Delegates or takes on design work directly as required 
• Supports junior team members via training, feedback, and coaching for craft, communication, collaboration, and process 
• Partners regularly with strategy colleagues to understand client business and audience and ensure creative work fulfills strategic intent 
• Partners regularly with engagement/project management colleagues to shape design-centric scopes of work, build pragmatic schedules, and prioritize resources and attention 
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Photoshop and Illustrator). Working knowledge of Keynote, Google Slides, Figma is expected. Knowledge of After Effects and Media Encoder is nice to have. Knowledge of AI tools such as Midjourney, Firefly is a bonus. 

Article Group is committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. 

 

Article Group is committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

COVID-19 considerations:
We started as a distributed team, and have barely skipped a beat in shifting to 100% remote. When it’s abundantly safe to work in and commute to our offices, we will re-open – but will remain flexible to remote collaboration.