Creative Communications Lead

Creative Communication & Visual Design Lead

Are you a strong design leader with a passion for storytelling, information design and flair for impeccable visual experiences?

We're looking for a driven, imaginative and hands-on Communication Design Lead to deliver exciting work for some of the world's largest and most interesting government and corporate clients.   

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Background

At Gravity iLabs, it's our mission to make the world easier to understand. Connecting people to purpose through interactive and immersive storytelling, we seek to engage, inspire and inform. We are a team of storytellers who seek to transform the way organisations communicate, share and execute on strategy.

We're looking for a driven, imaginative and hands-on Communication Design Lead to deliver exciting work for some of the world's largest and most interesting government and corporate clients.  

Overview:

As the Creative Lead for Visual Design at Gravity iLabs, you will be responsible for building and leading our visual design and strategic communications capability. You will oversee a team of talented graphic designers, illustrators, and motion graphics designers, helping our clients communicate strategy through immersive and interactive ways across digital, print, video, installation, and AR/VR. The ideal candidate is a visionary leader with a strong background in visual design, content writing, and information modeling, and an understanding of business complexity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Team Management: Lead, mentor, and manage a team of graphic designers, illustrators, and motion graphics designers. Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture that drives high-quality design work.

• Project Leadership & Delivery: Oversee the design and delivery of strategy visualization projects by:
  
  
  
  • Understanding client requirements and contexts by asking the right questions and
  
  
  • Work with large pools of client information to build clear, concise and usable information models that provide a big picture snapshot for executive consumption
  
  
  • Leading the design team to translate information models into visually rich information experiences
  
  
  • Provide clear direction to the creative team around creative and functional execution of end products to meet and exceed client expectations
  
  
  
  

• Strategic Communications: Build and enhance the strategic communications and visual design capability at Gravity iLabs, and produce compelling collateral to drive brand resonance and growth.

• Design Quality Assurance: Proactively build and define the iLabs delivery framework and playbooks, identifying and codifying opportunities to standardise ways of working to ensure the highest quality delivery.

• Culture & Innovation: Stay updated on the latest design methodologies, tools, and technologies. Encourage the team to experiment with new design approaches and incorporate innovative ideas into their work.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or a related field.


• 10+ years of experience in visual design, with a proven track record of leading and managing design teams within consulting, or agency set ups.


• Strong portfolio showcasing high-quality design outputs across a variety of media.


• Prior experience in content writing, information modeling, and communication of complex concepts through visualizations, systems maps, and


• Excellent leadership, communication, and project management skills.


• Entrepreneurial mindset – Demonstrated ability to set-up and lead a design studio and develop a partnership network of design capabilities for project delivery


• Demonstrated ability to build a culture and environment for high quality design, experience design aesthetics and attention to detail.


• Experience in developing and maintaining brand guidelines and design standards.


• Proficiency in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects) and other relevant tools


• Strong understanding of marketing, sales collateral, and internal communications design.


• Creative thinker with a passion for innovation and a keen eye for detail.


• Background working with Professional Services/Management Consulting organisations within a design capacity preferred.

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