Senior Designer

About the Role  

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Designer to join our team and contribute to the development of creative solutions that enhance the brand platform of one of our largest clients. As a Senior Designer, you will be responsible for designing and executing a range of materials and communication vehicles, with a focus on digital, print, presentation, and long-form design.

This role will primarily support our continued work with FEMA, with whom Ogilvy has a long-standing client relationship. Our current work centers around the Community Engagement and Risk Communication (CERC) contract, which focuses on growing awareness of, and resilience towards natural disasters in American communities.

The CERC team is a large, integrated team encompassing a network of behavior change, disaster resilience, risk communications, emergency management, community outreach, partnership building, community planning, and engineering experts to engage a broad array of national and local decision makers and influencers. The team’s work is centered around issues of natural disaster mitigation, climate change adaptation, and capacity building to empower communities to drive resilience.

As a passionate designer, you will bring your expertise in typography, layout design, color theory, and storytelling to create compelling designs that make a positive impact on the world. You will thrive in a fast-paced agency environment, where attention to detail and flexibility are essential. Additionally, you will be comfortable working collaboratively with multiple teams and clients simultaneously.

If you are a talented Senior Designer who is excited about using design to make a difference, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

What You’ll Do 

• Collaborate with the marketing team to translate marketing strategies into on-brand design recommendations and develop concepts that support marketing goals
• Conceptualize and execute creative ideas efficiently and effectively
• Take initiative in growing allocated tasks/campaigns beyond expectations
• Interpret creative direction, brand tone, and style guides to establish visual style and user experiences that communicate effectively with target audiences and fulfill project objectives
• Establish visual style and user experiences that will effectively communicate with target audiences and fulfill project objectives
• Ensure proper placement, context, and meaning of every visual element within a creative assignment and be able to speak to it
• Push the quality of the work until it is pixel perfect
• Assist creative leads in presenting work to clients
• Proactively seek approvals from creative leads (as required on a project-by-project basis) on all work before delivery to Account or Client
• Quickly gain an understanding of the brand platform, audience segments and organization
• Work independently and collaboratively with other Designers and Creative Directors
• Collaborate with other creative staff to share learning and experience and to establish initiatives that will improve Ogilvy’s creative product
• Participate in all necessary internal and external meetings, including briefings, status updates, brainstorming sessions, and presentations
• Prioritize workload and demonstrate excellent time management skills
• Stay current with industry/advertising trends and apply them strategically
• Contribute to overall office morale, spirit, character, and work quality
• Respectfully collaborate with and support colleagues

What You’ll Need:

• 5-7 years of advertising/marketing or ad agency experience working in Art Direction and/or Design
• You have several years of experience working with large creative accounts (experience working with government agencies is a plus)
• You’re comfortable pitching your design work, mature enough to give and take feedback, and talented enough to deliver on assignments big and small
• You are self-motivated and have the ability to function independently
• Strong portfolio that demonstrates significant experience and hard skills in digital, print, presentation, and long-form design
• You’re amazing with the latest design and presentation software (Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, as well as PowerPoint and Keynote)
• Portfolio and work samples required