Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.
Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.
Arcesium is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Design Lead with 8+ years of expertise in corporate branding, visual design, and professional motion graphics. You'll execute the creation of visually compelling designs across digital, print, motion, and web platforms, ensuring all work aligns with Arcesium's brand identity.
- Plan, coordinate, and execute diverse creative projects, managing resources, timelines, and workflows to deliver high-quality, brand-aligned assets on schedule.
- Create compelling design solutions for corporate branding and communication materials, including banners, social media assets, videos, reports, presentations, emailers, brochures, web assets, packaging design and event designs. Apply core design principles (color theory, typography, grid principles, layout rules, design thinking).
- Develop and maintain standardized design templates, ensuring strict adherence to brand guidelines and optimizing assets for use across various platforms (web, print, motion) for consistent brand representation.
- Utilize a broad set of tools — including Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel), project management platforms, AI-powered solutions, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Dimension), Figma, Blender, and Spline — to complete day-to-day tasks. Provide flexible, ad hoc assistance to the Senior Motion Designer, particularly for urgent or high-priority projects. Integrate 3D elements and stay current with emerging design technologies to continuously enhance visual quality and creative output.
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with internal teams (marketing, product) and external partners. Present and articulate design concepts, provide guidance to team members, and ensure quality control across all design outputs.
- Graduation or higher in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a Creative field from design college.
- Candidates should have 8+ years of progressive experience in corporate branding, digital, print, motion, and web design. A background in financial technology is beneficial, though not strictly required; we also highly value experience from other fast-paced or complex industry environments.
- Demonstrated expertise in corporate branding, creative strategy, and delivering aesthetically sound work.
- Highly skilled in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Dimension), Figma, Blender, Spline, and Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel). Strong capabilities in motion design and video editing, with a focus on integrating 3D elements across motion and web experiences. Experienced in leveraging emerging AI tools to enhance design quality and workflow efficiency.
- Excellent creative project management, multitasking, and organizational skills. Outstanding communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Along with your resume please submit high-quality portfolio demonstrating your excellence in design, technical proficiency, and creative achievements across digital, print, motion, and web assets.
Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from all qualified individuals.
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Arcesium is a global financial technology and professional services firm, delivering post-investment and enterprise data management solutions to some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, institutional asset managers, and private equity firms. Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client's ecosystem, Arcesium's cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex workflows and help clients achieve scale.
Building on a platform developed and tested by investment and technology development firm, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium was launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. J.P. Morgan, another large client, later joined as our third partner. Today, Arcesium services over $679 billion in global client AUM with a staff of over 1,500 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.
