Designers at IA Collaborative are masters of their craft in visual communication, typography, layout, image making, and storytelling with the purpose of creating clarity and inspiring engagement. At the forefront of user-centered design that creates business value, we live and work at the leading edge of technology; at the intersection of design and business, creativity and strategy. Join our team to support current clients in designing for user experience, product strategy and design, service design, branding and design systems.

How we work:

We serve as our clients’ design partner and guide by becoming knowledgeable and passionate about our clients’ creative goals and business through immersion in their business. Combining human-centered design and strategic business consulting, we help multinational organizations and emerging leaders set visions, create strategies, design compelling experiences and empower their own cultures of innovation. We reframe problems, uncover opportunities and set strategic vision. We take Insight to Action, to define business models — profit, process, channel, brand and partnership strategies — and create new physical and digital products, brands, services and environments.

You will:

• Lead multidisciplinary teams across all phases of projects from strategy to design to launch.
• Define the process, in partnership with other team leads, to deliver successful projects that are creative, compelling, and impactful for our clients’ business.
• Assist Graphic Design Directors in providing oversight and direction for the quality/execution of design output across multiple projects.
• Deliver distinctive client service and authentic client experiences to build long-term relationships that grow the business.
• Take a lead role in new business pitches, proposal development, and project initiation.
• Lead efforts to attract, retain, and grow design talent .
• Partner with other senior leaders within the organization to develop new initiatives to create opportunities to advance an open and inclusive environment that empowers team members and develops the culture of IA Collaborative.
• Understand current trends in design and business and bring strategic thinking to insights and solutions.

 Your Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design or related field. Master's degree preferred.
• Eight or more years of graphic design experience, preferably within a design firm or digital agency, including experience with:
  • Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams in a solution-oriented environment
  • Translating user research and business strategies into design decisions.
  • Creating compelling outcomes across some or all of the following domains: brands, digital interfaces, animations, video, VR/AR, conversational UI, packaging, environments, data visualization, illustration, and art direction
  • Leading teams through complex engagements with enterprise clients
  • Designing and leading successful client ideation and prioritization work sessions
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, InVision, Flinto, Keynote). Familiarity with storytelling tools (FinalCut, AfterEffects, Keynote)
• Ability to travel periodically for consecutive weekday nights both domestically and internationally.

Why IA Collaborative

At IA, you’ll practice your craft in a whole new context. You’ll be a part of designing the future of human experience as you transform your client’s business, empower communities and create a positive and lasting impact on the world.

Our internationally recognized workspace provides the inspiration and flexibility to effectively collaborate with teams, or deeply focus as an individual.

IA’s comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, vision; a suite of family benefits including paid time off for the birth of a child, caregiver leave, wellness check-in days, flexible spending accounts for dependent care, health expenses and childcare, and 529 college savings planning and contributions; employer-paid life insurance and disability; in-house Leminars (learning-seminars), scholarship funds to promote individual learning, growth and inspiration; as well as discretionary bonus and profit-sharing programs.

About the Graphic Design Team

Graphic designers at IA Collaborative are brilliant creatives and strategic thinkers. We turn insights into action by developing brands, crafting stories and defining experiences that strategically address unmet user needs.

Our highly collaborative team thrives in the ambiguous space of innovation. We work across disciplines, creating clarity and inspiring vision from concept to commercialization. Leveraging disciplined experience and diverse perspectives, our team challenges design’s “comfort zones” to courageously push the limits of how design can transform the human experience.

About IA Collaborative

IA Collaborative is a global design and innovation consultancy. At the forefront of user-centered design that creates business value, we live and work at the intersection of design and business; of creativity and strategy.

Combining human-centered design and strategic business consulting, we help multinational organizations and emerging leaders set visions, create strategies, design compelling experiences and empower their own cultures of innovation. We reframe problems, uncover opportunities and set a strategic vision. From Insight to Action, we define business models — profit, process, channel, brand and partnership strategies — and create new physical and digital products, brands, services and environments.

IA is on the national and global stage speaking about the business value of design. Featured by Fast Company as one of the country’s preeminent design thinkers, IA has been profiled by prominent business publications and has received multiple design accolades including the IDSA International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), the GOOD DESIGN™ Awards, the iF World Design Awards and the Red Dot International and SXSW Business Design awards. IA works with some of the world’s most successful brands, including FedEx, GE, Hyatt, Johnson & Johnson and Nike.

For more information about IA Collaborative visit iacollaborative.com, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Glassdoor.

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