Strategic Visual Designer

Strategic Visual Designer

at Relish Works

Chicago | Full Time 

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We are Relish Works, an innovation hub focused on the future of the foodservice industry. Relish Works operates as an independent start-up working with a top wholesale food distributor to identify growth opportunities and create human-centered solutions for the industry.

We are a group of passionate practitioners looking to add a Strategic Visual Designer to our Chicago-based innovation studio.

This role is best for someone who is a curious, creative, visual-thinker with the ability to leverage their design and storytelling skills to bring future experiences, concepts, services and systems to life. A designer in this role will know how to push visual boundaries and bring new ideas to the table, without sacrificing clarity of message. 

About the role:

As a Strategic Visual Designer, you will use visual design to communicate research findings, illustrate new experiences and pitch ideas for new strategies, businesses and service offerings in the foodservice industry. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary project teams of strategic thinkers and doers who have skills, experience and expertise across user research, experience design, business strategy, and project management. 

Your day to day could be a combination of any of the following: 

• Synthesizing and visualizing qualitative and quantitative research into diagrams and infographics
• Creating frameworks to structure the thinking behind new concepts
• Communicating new insights and ideas through wireframes, diagrams, illustrations, presentations, print pieces, and videos (from sketches to high production quality)
• Creating brands, experiences, and engaging content behind new business ideas to test in market
• Designing and developing executive level communication materials: Google slide presentations, decks, corporate communications
• Collaborating with talent and leveraging resources and expertise across Relish functional areas (innovation, ventures, investments)

You should apply if you have:

• A bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in visual communication design
• 3-5 years of experience in human centered design and innovation (cross-industry consulting experience preferred)
• Ability to frame problems and engage with an executive level audience
• Excellent facilitation and verbal communication skills 
• Strong written and visual communication skills
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to thrive in a self-directed culture
• Openness to learn from diverse perspectives and collaborate on multidisciplinary teams
• Motivation to solve end-user challenges, meet stakeholder needs, and deliver on business goals
• Desire to work on a lot of different types and sizes of projects 
• Aspiration to work in a startup/consultancy environment where we move fast
• Willingness to ask questions
• A learner mindset - you are always interested in expanding your knowledge and perspective 

You will thrive if you align with our values:

• Our team is inclusive, passionate, resourceful, and dependable. We are a team of problem solvers who have super powers in strategy, research, design, and communication. We prioritize collaboration in our work and expect our team members to feel accountability for all parts of the business, not just their discipline.