Designer, Branding - Resume Pool - Remote

Overview

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Disclaimer for Job Posting

Please note that this position is NOT currently open for hiring. We are proactively gathering resumes to build a pool of talented candidates for potential future opportunities. While there is no immediate vacancy, we encourage you to submit your resume if you'd like to be considered when the role becomes available.

About Herman-Scheer

Herman-Scheer is a brand consultancy that creates brands, products, and experiences for businesses that keep people healthy and happy. We focus on a range of sectors, including disruptive healthcare, wellness technology, healthy food and beverages, fitness and recreation, and personal care. We have a small growing team that is primarily remote with an office space in Venice for occasional in person meetings and working sessions.

As a Brand Designer, you will be working alongside creative directors, strategists, copywriters, art directors and motion designers to help create a diverse range of identity systems for our client partners that will be highly differentiated, strategic and effective for their respective business goals.

In Short

• Develop Creative Concepts – you'll work with our team in synthesizing business objectives, target audiences, and brand strategies in order to develop design system concepts and mood boards to set the foundation for our executions.
• Produce Key Brand Touchpoints – you'll leverage those concepts and work alongside a copywriter to produce high-fidelity mockups to understand how the brand exists in its most important formats.
• Create Design Systems – you'll establish guidelines for the use of brand marks, fonts, colors, graphics, patterns, textures, photos, illustrations, renders, and all other elements of a visual ecosystem.
• Multifaceted Design – Although the focus here is on brand identity design, the ability to step in and support web design and social content design is an important skill to have as modern brands exist in so many different channels.
• Staying Ahead of Industry Trends – You'll stay informed on the latest industry trends, creative best practices, and emerging tools or platforms to ensure our work remains fresh, forward-thinking, and impactful. Your awareness of shifts in branding, design, marketing, and technology will help guide innovative ideas and maintain a competitive edge for both the agency and our clients.

Requirements

• You’re an expert in design tools like Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite
• Detail-oriented and skilled in time and deadline management
• Ability to multi-task and handle multiple large projects at once and at high-speed
• Comfortable presenting and communicating ideas with clarity and impact both internally and to clients.
• You’re detail-oriented and skilled in time and deadline management
• Possess a strong curiosity, and ability to deal with ambiguity and work autonomously, and have a preference for a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Consistently deliver strategic insight
• Experienced contributing to the success of a creative team
• You’re a natural collaborator with experience working as part of a team
• You can use research & data to develop, validate, and refine ideas
• You’re curious and good at asking questions to solve complex problems
• You are a student of design and consumer product goods
• You like figuring out how systems and processes can work better
• You’re willing to learn new things on the job, and to give and receive feedback

Benefits

• 100% medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 15 days of PTO and 6 sick days
• Employer-Sponsored Life Insurance coverage
• Employer-Sponsored Short Term Disability Insurance
• Employer-Sponsored Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• $50/month Health & Wellness stipend + $50/month Work From Home stipend
• $600/year Learning & Development stipend
• $250 initial WFH set-up benefit
• HS Winter Break (week between Christmas and New Years)
• Apple computer and gear
• Work alongside great people, doing great work for great clients