Senior Communication Designer

Role summary:

We are looking for a Senior Communication Designer who can collaborate with teams to bring our voices, stories, and concepts to life. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in graphic design and has experience in brand, user interaction, digital products and motion design. In this role, you’ll work in multidisciplinary teams and tackle all aspects of the design process from user research to physical prototyping and communicating the overall project story to the client team.

You’ll have the opportunity to work on a diverse portfolio of projects that involve data, experience, interaction, digital product and service design. Your contributions will take on a variety of forms including brand, editorial, information, motion, packaging, interface, wayfinding and environmental design.

Once you are here you will:

• Develop brand strategies and lead the visual design direction and execution of work 
• Create compelling visual narratives that communicate user stories and our strategic solutions 
• Make sense of complex org. charts, business flows and data via information and data visualization design 
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary designers with backgrounds such as industrial design, interaction design, business design and mechanical engineering to solve problems across a variety of industries 
• Create prototypes of different levels of fidelity to help teams determine the design direction 
• Be an advocate for exceptional visual design 
• Help clients empathize with users by creating deliverables that tell a compelling story

Some previous projects to check out:

• Society of Grownups: Together with Mass Mutual we created a sort of master’s program for adulthood, where the curriculum covers everything from investing in a 401K to managing abudget to picking good, cheap wine. IDEO helped build the new venture from the ground up—designing a brand identity, a digital platform with some of the most sophisticated financial planning tools in the industry, and a hip brick-and-mortar locale.
• Boston.gov: The City of Boston approached IDEO tohelp create a more welcoming andcitizen-centered digital home, a place that is visited by more than 7 million people each year. Our design team set out tomake it easier to navigate and to serve as a community facilitator for all Boston residents and visitors to the city. The new digital home is now organized by life moments rather than departments.In conjunction with the site redesign, IDEO also created a visual identity for the city of Boston and a style guide to enable consistent use across itsnearly 50 departments.
• Hunter Gatherer: IDEO partnered with Hunter Gatherer to help incubate and launch a restaurant and retail space focused on providing a trusted source for safe food in China. Our team helped design every aspect of the organization, from its business strategy to its restaurant and retail space, brand and positioning, human resources, and marketing. The restaurant and grocery store opened in October 2014, and plans are in place to open 40 new locations throughout China. 

Relevant experience:

The secret weapons we'd ideally like you to have are listed below. But if you don't tick all the boxes, which ones do you tick?

• 5-7+ years graphic design experience across a variety of applications and media 
• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, communications design or an equivalent degree 
• Ability to tackle a diverse and complex set of design challenges and recognize patterns to help develop creative and strategic solutions 
• Experience establishing a brand identity, from understanding strategy to creative interpretation and execution; designing visual identities, defining brand architectures and building clear and useful guidelines for implementation. 
• Strong information and visualization design skills including typography and layout, and a passion for visual design across a breadth of media 
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills 
• Passion for learning and experimenting with new methods to deliver design solutions 
• Demonstrated proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite