Senior Graphic Designer

Recess Studios is a brand agency built to challenge the expected. With offices in Portland and New York, we deliver end-to-end brand solutions, foundational development, consistent application across every touchpoint, and strategic amplification that drives impact. Our multidisciplinary team imagines worlds, crafts honest narratives, and creates experiences at the intersection of culture and commerce. We prize Good Honest Work by Good Honest People, building lasting partnerships through clear standards, tidy operations, and results that exceed expectations.

Senior Designer is a versatile designer who can drive ideation, support creative direction, and execute on a wide variety of initiatives and projects. They will help develop and guide the conceptual vision and design across various campaigns, experiential, content, social, and integrated productions. Passionate about connecting the dots with brands and culture, the senior designer will produce ideas and create design materials for internal, new business, client projects, and community-centered initiatives.

They can demonstrate an impactful creative approach and have proven experience with leading a strong design style on various platforms and client briefs. They will support the team’s innovation and work streams by partnering with internal creatives to create innovative and forward thinking designs.

• Lead impactful creative concepts and design direction from initial to final production.
• Ability to scale creative direction, aesthetics, and design output across a variety of projects, brands, and mediums.
• Lead the development and direction of visual mood boards, brand tone/imagery, and style guides.
• Develop creative feedback/direction with internal and external partners across the production processes.
• Partner with Creative and Strategy to generate impactful and visual presentations.
• Continue to build networks and relationships with creative collaborator/talent recommendations
• Build relationships with clients, understand client vision/direction, and present designs and concepts.
• Assesses client needs and translates those needs into successful visual designs that deliver effective creative solutions.
• Leverage experience and internal partners to make decisions and recommendations around presentation, illustrative style, typography, motion design, page layout, display, navigation, etc.
• Gathers specifications from project team members to determine graphic scope, depth and focus.
• Partners with project team members to ensure deadlines are met and tasks completed.
• Maintains a high-level of technical and graphic design expertise in a variety of multimedia platforms.

• A passion for telling compelling, visually interesting stories through design.
• An interest in animation and ability to conceptualize and execute motion graphics.
• Expert knowledge of creating dynamic brand systems.
• Knowledge of visual arts design, typography design, and production techniques.
• Knowledge of photography and photographic techniques.
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing with vendors, internal clients.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities and meet established expectations and timelines.
• Strong experience in both visual and design direction, at a creative studio/agency.
• Ability to conceptualize and execute original visual designs into products and digital experiences.
• Collaborate with cross discipline Leads in creative strategy, production, tech and various levels of designers to help direct and define creative work streams.
• Excellent communication, presentation and presentation design skills; must be able to articulate concepts, ideas and design approach to internal and external stakeholders.
• Skill using industry standard design and modeling tools (e.g., Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Animate, Adobe InDesign, Adobe After Effects).