Graphic Designer

GPJ is hiring a Graphic Designer to join our growing team.

This role is hybrid, requiring you to report on-site to our Boston office location a minimum of 2 days per week.

Your Role

The role of the Graphic Designer is to understand how the client shows up in a 3D space, to visually represent the brand in a two-dimensional format and creatively push boundaries to improve the output of the work. As a Graphic Designer, you will own the agency and client brand image and ensure all work is on brand and reflects the quality of the company.

Your focus is bringing new ideas and thinking to client challenges to solve them in interesting and creative ways. You consistently innovate and develop new presentation techniques to inspire and energize the audience. translate creative briefs into impactful design solutions.

In this role you will:

• Be a leader in new techniques and design applications.
• Create high quality sketches, graphics and layouts, mock-ups, and presentations
• Excel at managing time and meeting tight deadlines
• Approach design with thoughtfulness, bringing to life multiple concepts and solutions.
• Collaborate with graphics production and creative tech to solve design and budgetary challenges while maintaining design and brand integrity

Your Skills

• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite, Figma and Google Suite
• Passion for learning new software and tracking emerging trends such as AI-based software (Firefly, Gemini, etc.)
• Works on multiple projects simultaneously and successfully with full accountability, maintaining quality at all times
• Tracks time weekly and flags any misalignment in assigned hours
• Meets deadlines without question or communicates concerns early with a solutions-oriented mindset
• Understands impacts of misuse of hours or misalignment of scope
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts, provide constructive feedback, and work effectively in a team environment.
• Collaborates well with the GPJ team from creative to account to production
• Excited to work with new people and work together to bring forward the best ideas
• Supervise and mentor Jr. Creatives and Igniters
• Brings fresh thinking, new ideas and creative solutions to the table
• Follows trends in and out of the industry to push the boundaries
• Pushes for great ideas that are strategically founded, but knows when to let an idea go and move forward with an agree upon direction
• Knows how to ideate within strategic guardrails
• Committed to an open, energetic and inclusive environment
• Maintains calm under pressure
• Stays positive when a project gets challenging
• Comes with solutions to solve problems
• Adaptability and flexibility to navigate evolving project requirements and client expectations.
• Communicate their ideas clearly, confidently and comprehensively
• Comfortable sharing work internally and externally at all stages
• Presents work with confidence and enthusiasm
• Communicates a clear message through a combination of of visuals and copy
• Uses mood boards, sketches, illustrations, elevations, photo comps, and a variety of approaches to convey the message succinctly
• Understand brand guidelines and visual identities and knows how to design to those standards and flag when they are misaligned
• Works well independently and with a team and knows when to elevate issues to creative leadership
• Basic understanding of the experiential industry and how GPJ fits into the ecosystem
• Basic understanding of how GPJ makes money and our business objectives
• Basic Understanding of budgets and how to design within budgetary restrictions
• Clear understanding of everyone’s roles and responsibilities for specific projects and how the departments function as a whole
• Strong understanding of experience and environmental design principles and apply it…