Senior Brand Designer

Senior Brand Designer at Aruliden

About the Senior Brand Designer role at Aruliden

Aruliden, a Material company, is an award-winning multi-disciplinary design and innovation agency building brands products and experiences end to end. We work with a diverse range of clients, in the Beauty, Lifestyle, Wellness and Technology spaces, often rethinking categories and industries. Design excellence shows up in all parts of our work, from Innovation and creative strategy to digital content creation with deep roots in bringing brands to life in non-traditional ways.

The Senior Brand Designer we’re seeking loves design and brand identity systems. They’re immersed in culture and excited by beauty, fashion, lifestyle and technology. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in graphic design, typography, and building brand systems across both physical and digital touchpoints, they understand how to tell unique visual stories through presentations and how ultimately to bring a brand and products to life. The candidate should also have a strong pulse on trends - what’s happening today and what’s happening next - and ultimately bring a fresh perspective and positivity to the table. Our environment is highly creative, fast-paced, fun, and collaborative.

We’re looking for highly creative, strategic, thinkers and makers – we listen, learn, reinvent, design, and make stuff, come join us!

As a Senior Brand Designer you will

• Manage yourself, your workflow and allocations

• Work collaboratively to communicate creative direction to team and peers

• Be a strategic creative thinker, and lover of brands

• Organize self and project partners to be able to share with the project Creative Director

• Inspire self to continue to elevate your work

• Be able to take a project from end to end, from conception through to manufacture/realization

• Demonstrate design excellence and expertise throughout your career

• Have a solid understanding and desire to keep up to date with innovation trends, industry trends, and design trends with a specific focus in beauty, fashion and lifestyle

• Have exceptional understanding of brands across a variety of industries / Strategic thinker with strong vision and ability to present well

• Have strong systems experience, understands how to realize a physical product from concept through to actualization

• Have high design aesthetics, typography, great taste, and interest in developing art direction in relation to brand

• Have good understanding and experience of bringing a brand to life in the digital space

• Have good understanding and ability to bring a brand and physical product to life

• Have strong concept and visualization skills / strong presentation and communication skills

• Excited to continue to learn and grow

About you

• You have 5-7 years of professional experience in a brand design studio

• You love arts and culture and is interested in the intersection of those two things

• You are dedicated to the craft and have the upmost attention to detail

• Degree in Graphic Design or equivalent experience

• Adobe Creative Suite & FIGMA proficiency

• Strong written and verbal English communications skills

Why work for Aruliden/Material?

In addition to fulfilling, high-impact work, company culture and benefits are integral to determining if a job is a right fit for you. Here’s a bit about who we are and highlights around what we offer.

Who We Are & What We Care About

• Material is a global company and we work with best-of-class brands worldwide. We also create and launch new brands and products, putting innovation and value creation at the center of our practice. Our clients are in the top of their class, across industry sectors from technology to retail, transportation, finance and healthcare.

• Material employees join a peer group of exceptionally talented colleagues across the company, the country, and even the world. We develop capabilities, craft and leading-edge market offerings across seven global practices including strategy and insights, design, data & analytics, technology and tracking. Our engagement management team makes it all hum for clients.

• We prize inclusion and interconnectedness. We amplify our impact through the people, perspectives, and expertise we engage in our work. Our commitment to deep human understanding combined with a science & systems approach uniquely equips us to bring a rich frame of reference to our work.

• A community focused on learning and making an impact. Material is an outcomes focused company. We create experiences that matter, create new value and make a difference in people's lives.

What we offer: 

In addition to Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability and FSA, Material offers: 

• A work environment that works best for you. Whether that’s fully remote, in one of our offices, or hybrid. (Please note, the preferred location for this position is NYC, as the team often meets on-site at our local office.)

• Flexible & synchronous time off. We trust our colleagues to take responsibility for and manage their workloads. That’s why we offer Flexible Time Off along with synchronous companywide closures and 11 company holidays.

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave. Every parent deserves to spend the first few months of their new child’s life with them. 

• Help planning for your future. We offer 401K match, as well as periodic financial wellness and planning sessions throughout the year.

Pay Range: $72,100.00-100,000.00

The rate shown represents a relevant range currently in use at Material. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself. 

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.

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