Senior Graphic Designer Job at Barrows in New York

Overview

Barrows is a commerce experience agency dedicated to building the world’s leading experiences for brands and retailers. We combine creativity, strategy, and technology to turn moments of shopper engagement into moments of conversion. From shopper marketing and category transformation to retail toolkits, display design, CX strategy, and store design, we deliver end-to-end solutions that don’t just meet expectations, they reset them. Backed by the scale and innovation of VML and WPP, we bring clients access to the best tools, technology, and talent as a sustainable competitive advantage. What sets us apart is not just what we deliver, but how we deliver it: a global team united by a can do spirit, relentless curiosity, and the belief that remarkable commerce experiences can transform both brands and the people who shop them.

Role & Responsibilities

• Senior Graphic Designer to support an expanding design team. Work alongside a larger creative team and interact with clients, retail specialists, and product designers. Understand requirements and possibilities of design and apply a graphic skin to various retail solutions created by product designers.
• Create visual concepts, by hand or using computer software, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers. Develop the overall layout and production design for physical or digital point of sale retail design.
• Brainstorm and develop creative solutions for briefs; present work professionally to the team and client (sell your work to your team first).
• Engage in interactive design sessions and brainstorms; receive briefs and design direction from studio traffic, assisting in a smooth handover from client service and strategy teams.
• Conceptualization and design research; assist in generating exploratory mood boards by gathering literature and internet resources.
• Be creative and adaptable to trends, conceptualizing original ideas. Develop concepts in Adobe software (Photoshop and Illustrator).
• Pitch work in client-ready presentations (PowerPoint) for account teams and occasionally present ideas to clients directly.
• Work through revisions efficiently to finalize designs and set up designs for production in Illustrator. Collaborate with product design teams to ensure designs can be produced accurately.
• Mentor Junior and Mid-level Graphic Designers. Apply creative storytelling with simplicity and user-centricity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of agency and/or design experience.
• Software literacy in Adobe Creative Suite and MS Office.
• Brand experience is a must. Shopper experience preferred.
• Friendly and dynamic disposition; strategic thinker with strong communication skills and a positive, respectful attitude.
• Ability to work in the office on average 4 days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday anchor days).

Salary & Benefits

The base pay range for this role is $75,000 - $95,000 per year. Exact compensation will be determined based on individual experience.

• Benefits include: Unlimited PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision (with an option for free medical care), 401K with a % match, various maternity/paternity leave options, fully funded disability and life insurance options, Headspace subscription, Wellness stipend, and more.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Art/Creative

Industries

• Advertising Services