IBM Creative is responsible for the sophistication and strategic evolution and expression of the IBM brand and sub-brands across every experience and encounter, internally and externally. We represent and support all IBM businesses horizontally and vertically. Our work crosses nearly every category of output: research and strategy, communications and content development, symbology and systems, digital and physical experiences, tools and training. Our goal is to maintain modernity, tangibility and understanding of the IBM brand in the world.
Role:
The IBM Creative design practice is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Visual Designer who is passionate about ideas, brand experience and design, and looking to work with like-minded people. The professional must have a strong attention towards strategic, simple, smart design, and a keen eye for a modernist approach to typography and information design. The right candidate should have conceptual skills with identity systems, and experience working across media. Work will include a range of assets and projects, including online, digital, motion, data visualization, print, social, video, and events.
Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Execute projects from conception, design, through execution.
- Produce deliverables from print to online and multimedia.
- Execute brilliant 2D animations that start with an elegant minimalist design concept.
- Produce sketches, storyboards, and develop animated sequences and stories.
- Bring abstract concepts to life though typography, illustration, iconography and photography.
- Deep understanding of IBM’s business strategies and goals.
- Command of IBM brand’s vision, systems, and documentation.
- Contribute to style guides, UI toolkits, and other design documents, as needed.
- Produce comps and assist with presentation preparations.
- Work with senior design team members to establish priority, fidelity and delivery of tasks.
- Effectively communicate conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale both verbally and visually.
- Speak and present to range of stakeholders.
- Ensure quality control and outcomes.
Required Experience:
- Designing experiences across media.
- Utilizing knowledge of grids, typography, graphic design, color, layout, iconography, imagery, and
design patterns and systems to address ambiguous, complex problems and projects. - A passion for well-conceived and crafted animation, and the ability to distinguish good, innovative design from bad, careless work.
- Problem solving and idea generation, effectively visualizing and creating concepts into the end products.
- Investigating, innovating, and developing trends in creative with an emphasis on brand
experience and design. - Actively seeking feedback and review of work; accept and act upon creative/technical direction.
- Taking direction well and being nimble to extend designs across platforms.
- Distinguishing good design from bad, careless from well-conceived and crafted.
- Being passionate, confident, empathetic, positive and approachable.
- Attention-to-detail, strong organizational skills and time management.
- Collaboration with others–stakeholders, technical teams, partners and other designers.
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience:
- Applications: Adobe Creative Suite (highly proficient), Figma, MS Office (.PPT), Github
- Motion skills
- 3D skills a plus (Cinema 4D, Blender)
- Web standards experience and knowledge as a plus
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Skills Required
- Experience designing experiences across multiple media
- Knowledge of grids, typography, graphic design, color, layout, iconography, imagery, and design systems
- Passion for and ability to create well-crafted animation
- Problem-solving, idea generation, and ability to develop concepts into finished products
- Experience investigating, innovating, and developing creative trends focused on brand experience and design
- Ability to seek feedback, accept creative and technical direction, and extend designs across platforms
- Strong attention to detail, organization, and time management
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders, technical teams, partners, and designers
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite
- Figma experience
- Microsoft Office and PowerPoint experience
- GitHub experience
- Motion design skills
- Cinema 4D or Blender experience
- Web standards experience and knowledge
What We Do
VSA is a hybrid brand strategy and design agency. We partner with business, strategic and creative leaders, combining our strategic consulting with design-driven experiences to solve business problems and realize the future of a brand. As a hybrid agency, we blend consumer insights and data with the craft of design to activate the most meaningful, motivating and measurable experiences. For VSA employees as well as those we recruit, we’ve adopted a long-term hybrid model that allows people to define their way of working in the way they want. This means that VSAers can work from anywhere in the United States—home, office or any place in between. Working from anywhere gives VSAers the option to find time to work alone, join others for office-based collaboration, or meet up as needed for small-group moments and client meetings. We’re also hiring with geographic “neutrality”—pursuing the best talent wherever it may live. We think having a workplace option matters most these days: Employees benefit from human interaction and the need for a change in scenery from time to time. And also, VSA benefits from a diversity of experiences and perspectives that come from seeing and participating in the larger world. All of which is why we see our offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco as a flexible, accessible network of workspace hubs for employees to use as needed for work and interaction with colleagues.
