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Requisition number: INTER004346

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Job Summary

The Mid-Weight Designer’s role is to support lead designer in interpreting and implement the creative vision across a broad range of projects ranging from digital, social, print, environmental design. The Mid-Weight Designer will be highly creative and conceptual with excellent skills in typography, branding & digital design & identity creation, and skilled within the full Adobe Creative Suite.

Overall Responsibilities:

• Support lead designer for a broad range of projects including branding, print communication, digital and environmental branding.

• Creation of digital design and assets for use on website and social media platforms.

• To maintain the high visual standard Portland sets and assist others in maintaining this standard.

• Creation of presentations to present strategy, ideas/executions for approval.

• Contribute to studio culture (how we think, work and play).

• Creation of unique designs and suites of brand assets

• Creation of digital design and assets for use on website and social media platforms

• Creative concepts, development and integrating research and conceptual thinking into presentation decks.

• Documentation and presentations. In charge of the team’s production of information.

• Ability to create original concepts from client brief / assist others in same.

• Produce concept work using hand sketches or computer software to a professional standard.

• Source reference material and carry out research to ensure that materials and products are fit for purpose.

• Produce mood boards and sample boards that communicate the concept clearly.

• Assemble presentations using a variety of digital and traditional media.

• Record meetings (minutes / letter / file note).

• Develop client and design team relationships.

• Attending client meetings, present design work at interim stages and/or initial concept stage.

• Attend site and liaise with contractors, printers and design / construction team.

• Reporting on all aspects of your project at any time, internally or to the client.

• Work to deadlines by planning your time and that of others (Junior Designers).

• Continually work to improve communication skills with all parties.

• Produce concept work using hand sketches or computer software to a professional standard.

• Assemble presentations using a variety of digital and traditional media.

• Develop client and design team relationships.

• Attending client meetings, present design work at interim stages and/or initial concept stage.

• Attend site and liaise with contractors and design / construction team.

• Reporting on all aspects of your project at any time, internally or to the client.

• Continually work to improve communication skills with all parties.

• Work closely with clients on project needs.

• Leads mock-up design reviews before the final production or client presentation.

• May participate in new business initiatives with other senior staff such as client interviews and proposal preparation.

• Travel may be required.

Requirements and skills:

• Good knowledge of the environmental graphic design process.

• Good knowledge of materials and production methods.

• Good knowledge of branding, print design and multi-media applications.

• Must possess design talent, creative energy, management and organisational skills.

• Ability to work in a team environment.

• Ability to anticipate, identify and resolve problems and recognise alternative solutions.

• Ability to provide excellent, consistent service to internal and external clients in a professional manner.

• Ability to effectively meet deadlines.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team environment and must possess good interpersonal skills

• Good teamwork and management skills.

• Confident and articulate communicator in meetings.

• Good organisational & detail-focused presentation skills.

• Decision-making autonomy and ability to work remotely.

• Be able to communicate issues at all levels.

• Being proactive and responsible in attitude.

• User focused and passionate about delivering meaningful enhancement to the end user.

• Ability to translate and apply brand and strategic project vision into physical form.

• Ability to understand and execute ideas visually and apply to client presentations, storytelling/communicating ideas visually, quickly and efficiently.

• Attention to detail and keen eye for typography and cartography.

• Happy to travel and take ultimate and overarching ownership and responsibility for a project.

• 2-3 years of experience within the creative industry, preferably within a multidisciplinary agency, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Proficiency with the following software:

• Abobe Suite (InDesign: Necessary)

• SketchUp and/or Rhino (Necessary)

• Enscape and/ or Twin Motion (Advantageous)

• Hand-drawing (Advantageous)

Start Date: as soon as possible.

Requisition number: SENIO004344

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Job Summary

The Intermediate (Midweight) Designer will work closely with teams, supporting the provision of research, design and delivery of strategies for making exciting neighborhoods.

Overall Responsibilities:

• Retail activation inputs into masterplan overlay and user-researched presentation material.

• Planning diagrams for sustainable size and placement of commercial space and use-recommendations that are designed around the identified needs or differing user types.

• Research into what people want to visit: the latest/ most successful retail centers, entertainment and leasure concepts, cultural uses and events, and how versions of these concepts can enrich our schemes.

• Documentation with diagrammatic information on principles and illustrative benchmarking that helps inform the Client’s planning and elevational drawings.

• Creation of conceptual diagrams with accompanying text that distils ideas into key bullet-points.

• Public realm activation of shop-spill-out and delivery programming lists for event spaces.

• Creation of Powerpoint and Indesign documents.

• Contribution to studio culture (how we think, work and play).

Requirements and skills:

• Accomplished & creative all-rounder from research to visualization to detailing.

• Cross-sector experience in the following a must: Retail/F&B/Brand Experience.

• Comfortable with Retail Strategy / Customer Journey Design.

• Eagerness to find new leisure and retail concepts.

• Architectural / master planning background.

• Ability to take ownership of projects with supervision.

• Decision-making autonomy and ability to work remotely.

• Teamwork and eagerness to learn new methods.

• Able to verbally articulate your ideas in a variety of contexts.

• Confident with client liaison.

• Graphical and detail-focused presentation skills.

• Good organisational and prioritising skills.

• A desire to develop yourself and those around you.

• 3+ years of experience within the creative industry, preferably in an interdisciplinary designer role, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Proficiency with the following software:

• AutoCAD 2D (Necessary)

• Abobe Suite (InDesign: Necessary)

• SketchUp and/or Rhino (Necessary)

• Enscape and/ or Twin Motion (Advantageous)

• Hand-drawing (Advantageous)

• Revit (Optional)

Start Date: as soon as possible.