What you can bring into the team:
Responsibilities:
Supervise
- Work with Creative Lead to oversee the creation and production of design solutions for creative projects of all types.
- Oversee guidance on creative execution with external vendors and agencies.
Create
- Strive to develop digital concepts that push the creative and technical boundaries while understanding how to balance limitations to reach amazing results.
- Participate in concept creation for projects ranging from digital adaptation and creation to video/photography.
- Fully leverage AI and relevant tools to execute effective concept materials (mood boards, storyboards, references, etc.)
- Design and execute digital campaign and platform projects using art direction, visuals, layouts, motion graphics, animations, and UI, demonstrating strong skills in design sensibility, visual communication, and typography.
- Create visual design specifications, prototypes, and maintain design systems for consistent design.
- Work across platforms and media including digital, events, CRM, and e-commerce to build experiences of varying levels of complexity.
Manage
- Manage the quality of concepts and designs throughout all stages of a project.
- Work with the Project Management team to ensure projects are executed on-time and on-budget.
- Review creative execution to ensure the best work that is consistent with brand direction.
- Orchestrate organization and execution of design assets (typography, images, logos/icons, etc.) for all projects.
Mentor
- Mentor and nurture Designers and Junior Designers.
- Help set Designer goals that align with the individual and team and perform reviews when necessary.
Communicate
- Work effectively in a bilingual environment (Mandarin and English).
- Confidently articulate creative rationale and enjoy leading design conversations.
Collaborate
- Work collaboratively with Copywriters and other team members for clarity and transparency.
- Participate in content and creative brainstorms and consistently provide ideas relevant to marketing and digital landscape trends.
- Facilitate communication, collaboration, and learning across local and global teams to ensure creative and content alignment.
- Work with Marketing teams to ensure the most creative and effective work is created.
Requirements:
- Art based and skilled in the areas of conceptual, visual, and experience design.
- Strong visual sense and superb design skills (typography, layout, image, etc.). Well-rounded and possesses a good knowledge of UX principles.
- Strong understanding of latest interaction and UI design principles, digital/web technologies (html, css, js), as well as the emerging design trends.
- Solid knowledge of responsive design for commerce, social, and other related platforms with a focus on mobile.
- Experience with creating motion graphics / animation preferred.
- Experience with shooting especially for events is a plus.
- Experience with leveraging AI tools for visual creation and concepting.
- Full command of relevant software tools including Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, and Figma.
- Ability to assess the big picture all the way down to micro details.
- Solid interpersonal skills along with good verbal, written, and visual communication capabilities. Good presentation skills.
- Deep understanding of local market creative, culture, sensibilities, and nuances with a solid knowledge and understanding of design, usage behaviors, and engagement methods for major commerce and social (e.g. Wechat, Weibo, etc) platforms in China.
- Native command of the Chinese language but can equally communicate effectively in English.
- Proactive and a constantly curious self-initiated learner that is fearless in tackling multiple projects under tight deadlines.
- Self-motivated and resourceful. Strong work ethics and takes pride in the quality of their work.
- Effective organizational skills and with extreme attention to detail.
- Flexible and positive team player that enjoys working in collaborative scenarios across teams, disciplines, and regions. Equally effective when working independently.
- 5+ years of creative experience in areas including advertising, digital web/interaction/interface, and graphic design within an advertising/design agency, in-house agency, or a combination of both. Ideally have had some experience managing a team.