The Senior Studio Designer is a technical creative professional responsible for executing, refining, and finalizing design projects across digital and print platforms. This role demands a meticulous eye for detail, a deep understanding of design execution, and the ability to maintain brand integrity while efficiently managing a high-volume workload.Working alongside the Design and Creative teams, the Studio Designer ensures that all creative assets meet production specifications and brand standards while contributing to the evolution of design elements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design Execution & Production: Build out variations and expand upon existing design elements while maintaining creative integrity. Takes ownership of specific accounts and initiatives above and beyond daily deliverables. Design quick turn content requests (infographics, one-pagers, graphic social posts, video frame graphic overlays, etc.).
- Infographics & Data Visualization: Develop visually compelling infographics that simplify complex data into clear, engaging visuals.
- Brand Compliance: Uphold and enforce brand standards across all assets, ensuring consistency in typography, color, illustration and layout.
- Edits & Revisions: Implement all requested edits and corrections promptly and accurately.
- File Preparation & Quality Control: Prepare final files for various types of production (digital and print), ensuring accuracy in resolution, color, size and overall quality.
- Presentation & Mockups: Create internal and external presentation materials, including large-format printing, digital presentations (PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides).
- Production & Retouching: Perform retouching, color correction and background removal (COB) as needed for production specifications.
- Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with the Associate Studio Director, Studio Systems Specialist and Design team members to ensure seamless workflow and project execution. Foster collaboration and maintain positive morale within the team.
- Organization & File Management: Assist in organizing, monitoring and maintaining digital assets and project files.
Qualifications & Skills
- Experience: 3+of relevant experience in a studio or production design role.
- Technical Expertise:
- Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) on Mac.
- Experience with Keynote, Google Slides and PowerPoint.
- After Effects experience a plus.
- Attention to Detail: Strong proofreading, layout precision and problem-solving skills.
- Time Management: Ability to handle a fast-paced workload with tight deadlines while maintaining quality.
- Communication: Clear and effective collaboration with internal teams and, occasionally, clients.
Ideal Candidate Traits
- A highly organized, process-driven creative with a passion for execution and precision.
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams.
- Proactively seeks solutions and improvements in workflow and production.
- A detail-oriented professional with strong design sensibilities and technical expertise.
- Loves the technical side of design execution while maintaining an artistic and strategic approach to problem-solving.
- We believe being radically diverse and inclusive is the key to becoming one of the world’s great creative idea companies. By embracing everything that makes our partners who they are and what makes them unique to the world around them, we create the conditions and capacity to help creative, original thinking thrive.
- BarkleyOKRP is committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging as part of our corporate strategic goals, supported by a formal DEI+B program, Employee Resource Groups, Director of Diversity leadership and agency commitment to The Brand Lab, Creative Accelerator, Fellowship, MAIP, and BLAC.
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What We Do
Barkley is an independent creative idea company.
Potent modern brands are whole brands — they need creative ideas across a wide spectrum, from business to marketing — all built around a core, long idea we call a Red Thread. This spectrum is our playground.
We are committed to knowing modern consumers better than anyone, and we're out to prove creativity can solve any problem.
We're known for our ❤️ and hustle, and we’re always looking for whole brand thinkers.
