Design Lead

**Job Title**:Design Lead / Art Director

**Location**:Sydney, Australia

**A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE**:
In a highly competitive and saturated market place creating visually stunning, impactful and effective creative work is essential.

We want to create industry-leading, world class work that's truly beautiful, smart, and effective. To help us achieve our goal, we are looking for a strong, highly motivated and designer to join us in this exciting ambition.

As a Design Lead / Art Director you will be an experienced integrated designer, comfortable taking design projects from brief through to completion, providing new ideas and creativity whilst working closely with the client's brand guidelines. You will be producing design to the client's brief and exacting standards whilst positively influencing clients with your creative input in addition to undertaking and pitching new creative concepts.

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**:
**Key Responsibilities and accountabilities**
- Producing beautiful and innovative designs for our client's channels.
- To be responsible for the full design lifecycle from concept to execution.
- To develop a deep understanding of target audiences and the client's marketing strategy to deliver high quality results that have an instant, positive impact on the consumer, promoting products and brands.
- To pitch creative solutions in response to marketing strategies.
- To oversee and manage the preparation of all finished files that will comply with the correct output specifications.

**WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE**

**Knowledge & Skills Required**
- A passion for design and conception.
- You'll have a deep affinity with layout, typography and idea-generation.
- Ability to take ownership of projects from concept through to completion.
- Consistent record of taking on, interpreting and delivering design projects within agreed deadlines.
- Attention to detail with the ability to work under own initiative.
- Excellent experience working closely with clients during kick-off.
- Confident in bringing your own innovative ideas and creativity to projects whilst working within a broad range of design guidelines across a variety of design collateral.
- Strong client liaison, with a proven track record of developing strong client relationships.
- Effectively organising and prioritising workloads to manage client delivery whilst simultaneously influencing clients with your own ideas and conceptual creativity.
- Excellent Adobe CS skills.
- Understanding of design principles and an awareness of UX, UI and Responsive Design trends - it is ideal but not essential.
- Working knowledge of After Effects animation is a bonus.
- On
- and Offline design experience with an emphasis on Digital.
- Retouching experience and skills to mid-level.

**Personal Attributes**
- Confident and comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing client environment.
- A passionate and inspiring creative.
- The aptitude to learn new software and programmes efficiently and effectively.
- Self-motivated, working with little supervision.
- Collaborative team player, open minded - non-political.
- Discrete about all confidential and personal information.
- Driven, proactive, helpful, and enthusiastic team player.

**A LITTLE BIT ABOUT US**:
Inside Ideas Group is a rapidly expanding global creative services agency with a twist: we provide our clients with bespoke dedicated agencies that operate from within their offices. It's a dynamic, fast paced, solutions-focused start-up environment that brings client and agency closer together to co-create more effective and efficient work. In September 2019, IIG were awarded a contract by Healthcare Brand to create agencies inside Healthcare Brand leading offices around the world.

**OUR VALUES AND HOW TO LIVE THEM**:
**Ambition** - you look for opportunities to deliver greater value to those around you.

**Imagination** - you identify a range of solutions to problems.

**Inclusion - **to be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations.

**Inspiration** - you lead by example and encourage others to do the same.

**Learning **- you have excellent listening skills that helps you to learn from our clients and those around you.

**Results** - you accept responsibility for your actions.
- We've set ambitious, market-leading environmental and social goals around sustainability at OLIVER. _We have committed to be net zero by 2030 and take far reaching action on DE&I in the sector. _We expect everyone to contribute to our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle._

Inside Ideas Group and its' affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to rac