Editorial Graphic Designer

Overview

Hey, you! Wanna become #One Of Us ? We are on the lookout for the next awesome layout-obsessed print designer to join our HKR team as a Graphic Designer (Print & Lookbooks), working for a US-based client in luxury furniture and interior design space. 🇺🇸

Btw, HKR was remote before it was cool! 😎 Remote is allowed, encouraged, and the norm. Now, and forever. There’s only one catch, and it comes from this guy:

“
Whateveryouare,beagoodone
” - Abraham Lincoln.

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• 🔸 Design and produce multi-page print materials like product lookbooks, catalogs, brochures, sell sheets, and event invitations for a premium global brand.
• 🔸 Turn product imagery, copy, pricing, and technical details into clear, beautiful layouts that tell a compelling visual story.
• 🔸 Create and adapt digital versions of print materials (interactive PDFs, digital presentations, web-ready assets, simple email visuals).
• 🔸 Prepare pixel-perfect, print-ready files — bleeds, margins, color profiles, and specs all dialed in for production.
• 🔸 Collaborate closely with marketing, merchandising, and content teams to ensure accuracy, consistency, and on-brand execution across all materials and versions.
• 🔸 Manage multiple projects, versions, and timelines in a fast-paced environment while keeping files impeccably organized.
• 🔸 Uphold high standards for detail, typography, and visual consistency, championing an elevated editorial look & feel across everything you touch.

• 🎧 You’re a print & layout nerd with at least 3 years of experience in Graphic Design, ideally in editorial, catalog, fashion, lifestyle, interiors, or e-commerce environments.
• 🎧 Adobe InDesign is basically your second home—you’re expert-level when it comes to multi-page layouts and long-form documents.
• 🎧 You’re confident in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) for layout, image prep/retouching, and vector work.
• 🎧 You have proven experience creating lookbooks, catalogs, and other layout-intensive print pieces for brands.
• 🎧 You understand print production deeply — color modes, bleeds, resolution, file setup, and printer specs are part of your everyday vocabulary.
• 🎧 You’re comfortable adapting print designs for digital formats (PDFs, presentations, and simple web/email assets).
• 🎧 Your eye for typography, composition, hierarchy, and image curation is razor sharp—and you actually enjoy fine tuning the details.
• 🎧 You’re highly organized and can juggle multiple deadlines, versions, and feedback cycles without losing track.
• 🎧 Your English communication skills are top-notch (C1 level), both written and spoken.
• 🎧 You’re comfortable working remotely with distributed teams and maintaining strong overlap with EST business hours.
• 🎧 Bonus points if you’ve worked with premium or design-led brands (interiors, fashion, lifestyle) and/or have experience with interactive PDFs, light animation, or Keynote/PowerPoint.

• 💰 Fair market pay
• 🏠 Remote, full-time job — work as an independent contractor from the comfort of your own home!
• 🕐 Overlap with EST business hours schedule (with 1 hour of lunch break 🍕)
• 🥳 Start-up culture, young team, no egos, no BS

✨ At HKR, we’re all about the start-up life—innovative and dynamic, not corporate and stuffy. We’re on a mission to simplify global HR.

✨ Transparent culture, tech-savvy, and quick decision-making.

✨ Feedback fuels our growth, and we celebrate all wins. Meritocracy is our game; it’s what you bring to the table that counts.

✨ Fantastic mix of US clients with more to come.

✨ We value ownership and getting things done. We ask, "How much did you care?" If you're passionate, you're nailling it.

✨ Ideal for creative minds who love contributing ideas and improving processes.

✨ Oh... and we don't waste time in useless meetings.

🧭 Based in Bucharest and Cluj, Romania, we’re remote-first. Whether you work from home or pop into the office, we support what works best for you. Embracing change is who we are.