Brand Designer - Junior

Your Role

We are seeking an exceptionally talented and passionate Junior Brand/Graphic Designer to join our creative design team in Paris who specialise in helping to tell stories and create experiences in the context of the built environment. We are looking for an individual who can support our worldwide base of diverse clients and projects by bringing a passion for creative visual solutions, an understanding of brand, and an ability to translate this into all kinds of brand storytelling, including communications systems, environmental graphics and wayfinding, environments, visual merchandising, marketing installations, and digital solutions. 

Our ideal candidate is a strong 2D and 3D designer who can quickly generate multiple initial concepts and develop them into viable design solutions. A strong emphasis on integrating concepts into built environments with environmental graphic and visual merchandising solutions is what we are looking for. This individual will coordinate between multiple internal projects teams, fabricators and clients. Projects will often cover multiple design disciplines including retail, workplace, entertainment, retail centers, and strategy, allowing for cross pollination between graphic design, environmental graphic design, digital, brand strategy and architecture.

What You Will Do

• Work closely with the insights and strategy team to develop breakthrough creative ideas and articulate the ideas in the creative brief
• Design branded environments including environmental graphics, signage, and digital integration
• Present concept work internally and to external clients
• Compose design presentations that are both verbally and visually compelling
• Liaise with outside design support contracted on projects
• Work closely with the design manager and production team to ensure that all information necessary for the successful production of the design is clearly understood
• Collaborate with design teams from business development presentations through strategy, design and delivery
• Staying current on market trends and research, and communicate it to other team members
• Be able to multitask, working on various projects at once, often with tight deadlines and with careful attention to detail
• Liaising with regional and international offices, where necessary

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, industrial design, environmental graphic design, information design, communication design or similar
• Fluent in both French & English
• Strong interest in designing for the built environment, working on experiential graphic design and signage design projects
• Experience in executing creative brand storytelling across multiple channels (physical, digital, temporary, VM, etc)
• Strong conceptual thinker who can translate strategic thinking into visual solutions
• Ability to visualize ideas in 2D and 3D
• Works well in an interdisciplinary, fast-paced, team-oriented environment
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills
• Strong typography, composition and information design skills
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) and Figma
• The ability to interest to use 3d programs such as Sketch Up

This job description reflects the core activities of the role although there will be changes in the emphasis of duties as required from time to time.

Please apply for this Junior Brand Designer role and and submit your CV and brief portfolio for review.

Candidates who do not meet the criteria, or provide work samples will not be considered.

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