Sport & Entertainment - Integrated Designer

**M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment - Integrated Designer**

As part of the M&C Saatchi Group we come together to realise BIG AMBITIONS. And ours is to be the most connected creative company by organising original thinkers in uncommon ways.

We celebrate people who embrace our values and BIG AMBITIONS and the opportunity is here now for an Integrated Designer to join our team in Sydney.

BRAND OVERVIEW

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment creates change for brands through people’s passions. As the world’s leading passion-marketing agency, we're a mixed bag of sports-loving, culture-seeking, trend-hunting, creative communications experts. We span the spectrum of passion-marketing, from sport, film and entertainment, to style, food and wellness - and every emerging and niche trend in between. Our work reflects the new ways audiences cultivate their passions, consume media and share stories by delivering integrated communications campaigns including but not limited to sponsorship, experiential, PR, social and content.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As an Integrated Designer you will be tasked to dream up and execute ideas to support strategy, creative, partnerships and communications teams. The role will vary from idea generation, to implementation and delivery.

Your role will have two focus areas including creativity and craft. Your creativity will be through how you think, how you answer briefs and how you relay those ideas to colleagues and clients. Your craft will relate to evolving your design skills to better the overall end product and outputs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Key focus areas:

- Creativity including taking a brief and response
- Thinking through ideas and tactics that align with briefs
- Contributing to integrated planning
- Team counsel around design ideas and plausibility
- Ensuring quality outputs
- Leader of knowledge within design craft
- Management of internal systems and server
- Expert in Adobe CC suite

Key Responsibilities:

- Generate strategically sound design and content ideas that challenge the status quo whilst answering the brief
- Convey ideas effectively to internal teams and clients (where possible)
- Keep up to date with emerging design styles and principles, incorporating knowledge on design trends and platforms that help us stay ahead of the curve ie. Ai image creation - Midjourney
- Create tactics that bring the idea to life across earned and owned channels including PR, social media, owned channels and activations
- Be an expert of our client’s brand guidelines, knowing when and where to stay within the confines or push the creativity
- Be the owner of our internal S&E Agency brand guidelines, constantly perfecting and building upon them to ensure our brand image is industry leading and culturally relevant. We are at the forefront of culture, so we need to ensure we look, feel and sound that way too.
- Work closely with our Social Content Creator to perfect internal assets that she has planned for our social channels
- Work closely with our Social Content Creator to concept and design social content for our brands
- Work closely with Art Directors and Copywriters to bring the vision of their ideas to life. This could be at the start of a project at its initial concept phase or towards the end of the process when designed assets are being created for production or final output
- Know which projects require extra design craft (and have the budget for it) versus which projects require quick turn around solutions (low cost)
- Plus much more speak to our talent team for a full job description during the interview process

WHAT YOU’RE LIKE AND CAN DO

Behaviours and Competencies
- Strategic and expert understanding of PR, publicity, news generation, influencers and social
- Strong understanding of marcomms; events & experiential; digital; partnerships
- Natural ability to identify, develop and nurture ideas for clients
- Ability to understand and articulate client needs and requirements to scope opportunities
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Able to prioritise tasks based on relative importance and urgency
- Excellent attention to detail
- Enthusiastic for passion based marketing focusing in on influencing culture

Qualifications and Experience
- Highly skilled in Adobe CC Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)
- Skilled in Animate and/or After Effects
- Knowledge of and experience in print layout, pre-press & the digital design process
- An understanding of web standards, user experience, general design skills & typography.
- Knowledge of the latest design industry trends, techniques and technologies.
- Degree qualified in Graphic Design / Visual Communications

WHAT WE VALUE MOST
- Walk in different worlds
- Make Uncommon Sense
- Run Towards the Fire (except if there is an actual fire when we run away from it)
- Roll as one
- Be excellent to each other

BEST BITS ABOUT WORKING WITH US

Our big benefits fuel our big ambitions. There’s our Flexible Flexibilit