The Manager will oversee and take responsibility for successful delivery of a range of projects that relate specifically to conceptualization, creative design and visual storytelling. These include:

• Support in creative ideation, visualization and execution for a variety of use cases and mediums ranging from high-value executive summary documents to UI/UX for microsites
•  Prepare and distill creative briefs into high-impact visual concepts, designs and templates  
• Build hi-fi/lo-fi storyboards, wireframes, briefs to communicate/pitch underlying design principles and creative ideas to stakeholders and internal team members
• Work closely with the Art Associate to develop creative approaches and stories for our use cases.
• Apply different art forms such as typography, videography, graphic design, and photography in a way that translates the original idea into visual storytelling for early stage sales pitches and proposals submitted to our clients  
• Conceptualize design ideas for all internal communication devices including eDMs, newsletters etc and for our GTM material for e.g. case studies, capability decks, leadership decks and research generated content.
• Take ownership of simultaneous projects with geographically dispersed stakeholders. Manage and deliver requests in a timely manner ? providing time estimates to the stakeholders.
• Developing creative solutions that will amplify our client's experience across all communication touchpoints including client facing workshops, microsites, report-out documents etc.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts, Media Arts, Interaction Design or equivalent education and experience.
• 5-7 years of experience as a graphic designer in advertising / design studio or in-house creative agency
• Exceptional aesthetic sense, intuitive understanding of design principles and best practice of emerging trends in media and marketing
• Demonstrable experience in working with and synthesizing technical language frameworks into highly creative visuals
• Excellent written, verbal & visual communication skills
• Ability to influence creative design to deliver a process-driven and managed creative visual, and graphic design service for a fast-paced business environment.
• A passion for design and people
• Experience of working with graphic designers & content team
• Highly skilled in Adobe tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffect, Premier Pro, XD both for web technologies & print production.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft tools (Word, PowerPoint),

Preferred qualifications

·      Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple projects.

·      Ability to synthesize complex matter into simple and effective output

·      Ability to supervise and develop employees.

·      Strong relationship building skills and customer-service orientation

·      Creative and innovative thinking, ability to think out of box problem solving

·      Results/ action-orientation

·      Stay up to date with new technologies, industry and design trends and demonstrate a passion for learning