The Role
Company And Culture
Created in 2002 by Marc Eckō, Complex is a leading global youth entertainment network showcasing the evolution of major pop culture categories, including streetwear and style, music, sneakers, and sports. Complex is a juggernaut in the content and culture space, delivering unprecedented global reach.
Complex is the world’s definitive cultural commerce, content, and experiential platform. We have created an all-new operating system built for the next generation, seamlessly integrating discovery, inspiration, community, and shopping. The company represents an expansion of the original vision with a deep understanding of convergence culture and its impact on contemporary society.
Whether through video, long-form editorial, or social content, Complex tells stories that engage dynamic conversation with our communities. Our internet-breaking cover stories document the heroes of culture and take them to the next level through product collaboration and shoppability.
Complex has become experts in creating immersive environments at our IRL experiences and cultural events. ComplexCon is our flagship festival bringing together the world’s most influential brands and artists for an unforgettable weekend of style, sneakers, art, design, food, music, inspiration and more.
Join us to help redefine the way people shop, while building a global marketplace that moves at the speed of culture. Complex is committed to building a high performing team that is passionate about what they do and the communities we serve.
Everyone at Complex truly believes in the company and its mission; it’s a requirement for working here. There is synergy within the teams that make Complex what it is, a well-oiled machine. Employees are at the forefront of the company's success because every one of us is given the opportunity to provide suggestions, feedback, and direction.
Why We’re Hiring
Our team is growing and looking for strong design support within the Complex Brand Partnerships department. You would work within the Branded Art team and cross functionally with experiential and branded content to ideate and execute deliverables. We offer a full range of product offerings to our clients and need someone with a strong technical skillset and ability to work from ideation to finished execution bringing deliverables to life. We’re seeking a utility player with a multi-disciplinary approach and deep expertise across graphics, social design, display media, printed collateral, merch and experiential design. This role is ideal for a creative visionary who understands how to transform cultural insights and partner brand guidelines into iconic visual expressions across mediums—from digital to physical. This individual is self-motivated, highly collaborative, and relentlessly curious, consistently sparking new ideas, pushing boundaries, and elevating design execution across platforms.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate: Working with design leaders, art directors, account managers, experiential and product to create a vision and roadmap for product execution
- Executing projects: Taking projects from concept to launch, creating within existing workflow systems within brand guidelines or provided art direction
- Display and Social Design: Ability to translate larger campaign initiatives and creative into display and social packages
- Experiential and Event Design: Work with design leadership on conceptualizing and execute physical brand experiences—from bespoke pop-up activations to large-scale experiences like ComplexCon
- Apparel: Design of limited-edition merch drops, and collabs bringing fashion sensibility to product storytelling
- Researching: Conducting research to identify problems and validate designs
- Proposing and Executing: Creating designs and product solutions for any given task. Flawlessly execute compositions, layouts, and renders
- Presenting: Comfortable speaking to design work and ideas to cross-functional stakeholders
- Expert in latest Mac software: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects), Google Slides, Figma, ReadyMag, SketchUp or other experiential 3D render softwareImpressive, wide-ranging portfolio (brand, print, event, editorial and product is a plus)
- Working knowledge of current AI render platforms
Who You Are
- Minimum 5-7 years of graphic design experience within digital (display, social), print, and experiential executions. Preferably in agency, media branded content, or in-house brand / streetwear
- Passion for graphic design in digital and physical worlds
- Fan and working knowledge of trends in pop culture, music, events, streetwear brands and design
- Critical design collaboration from concept to execution
- Well-organized, with strict attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem solving
- Excellent communication skills: written, verbal, interpersonalAble to support design decisions using industry insight, best practices, and tried and true execution approaches
- Obsess about the details and push the creative until its reached the best execution
- Highly responsible, self-motivated, and able to thrive in an energetic, fast-paced, high growth, entrepreneurial environment
- Must have strong time management skills and the ability to pivot from project to project juggling multiple at a time
- Passion for materials within tangible design for apparel, packaging, print, and experiential builds
What We Offer
- Best in class health, dental, and vision insurance
- Healthcare FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter Benefits FSA
- Short-term/long-term disability and life insurance
- Paid Parental leave
- 401k with 4% match
- Pet Insurance
- Legal and Identity Theft Plans
- Vacation time and sick days
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of the job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some incumbents assigned to the job to perform a different combination of duties.
Complex participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
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The Company
What We Do
Complex NTWRK champions the people, brands and new trends you need to know now, will obsess over next, and we build consumer universes around them. We're what a modern entertainment company looks like and what others have followed since 2002. From pop culture and style (Complex), music discovery (Pigeons and Planes), sneaker news (Sole Collector) to our festival of cultural convergence (ComplexCon) — if you want to be part of what's next and build valuable relationships with the audiences who live in it, join us at Complex NTWRK. Complex NTWRK creates and distributes original programming with premium distributors including Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, Snap, Fuse, Pluto TV, Roku and more. Our content spans across music to movies, sports to video games, sneakers, fashion to food and more. In 2016, Complex launched its flagship event ComplexCon in Long Beach, California, to bring the "Internet to life."
