Creative Design Lead

**Lead our creative vision at Australian Retirement Trust Drive brand strategy, create stunning visuals, and ensure consistency across all platforms. Guide a talented team, tackle exciting challenges, and play a key role in our growth. If you're a strategic thinker with a passion for design, this is your chance to shine**

**Why join us?**
- You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
- Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
- Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
- In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

**About the role**

We’re all about helping our members make the most of their money. And while they go after their goals, you can too. As the Creative Design Lead, you'll support the Brand Specialist to oversee and drive the creative direction of Australian Retirement Trust. You'll work with the Creative Designer to develop innovative visual concepts and ensure brand consistency across all platforms.

Day to day, you'll:

- Drive brand vision and strategy in alignment with business goals.
- Champion brand identity and maintain quality standards across all touchpoints.
- Create digital and print assets including marketing materials, presentations, and advertising collateral.
- Develop core branding elements (logos, style guides, photography).
- Design UI/UX components and interactive content (animations, GIFs, videos).
- Ensure consistent design implementation across web, mobile, and social platforms.
- Lead the intake, prioritisation and trafficking of brand and design requests across the enterprise.
- Prioritise multiple projects while meeting deadlines.
- Streamline processes to improve team efficiency.
- Conduct design reviews and provide actionable feedback.
- Partner with marketing teams and external agencies on creative initiatives.
- Stay current with design trends and emerging technologies.
- Contribute to brand evolution while maintaining established guidelines.

This role is a **permanent** opportunity.

**About you**

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

- You think strategically and have exceptional design expertise, leadership abilities, and a passion for storytelling through compelling visuals.
- You have proven experience in graphic design, branding, and multimedia content creation.
- You’re a master of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects).
- You have experience with design tools like Figma, Sketch, or Canva.
- You have strong expertise in typography, layout, colour theory, and brand identity development.
- You’re familiar with web design principles and basic HTML/CSS.
- You have excellent communication and project management skills.
- You can think strategically while executing hands-on creative work.
- You can take creative direction and adapt designs based on feedback.
- You have excellent attention to detail and organizational skills.
- You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

**About us**

Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of over $330 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you’ll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

We don’t want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you’ll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you’ve made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us - and recruitment is no different.