CAREERS

Duties & Responsibilities

• Team lead on small to medium sized project, excite and inspire people around you
• Earn the respect and confidence of your clients and colleagues alike, be confident on presenting your work to clients with minimal input from design directors
• You must be able to make confident design decisions, and be smart and persuasive in bringing others with you
• You will be great at organising and prioritising your and others’ workload

Requirements

With at least four years of creative experience from a graphic design background, with strong understanding of interactive design and motion graphics. You should…

• A brilliant creative thinker, with the ability to push things
• Excellent on the craft and detail – nothing gets past you
• Able to deliver solutions bearing in mind the market, consumer and competitor landscape
• Articulate, confident and assertive in presenting work
• Highly collaborative, able to build strong relationships within design and across the business

Personality & Interpersonal Skills

• Committed, confident
• Relentlessly energetic and positive, up for any challenge
• Determined and tenacious enough to see things through
• Constantly challenging to get the best out of each other
• Able to share ownership, never precious, never protective
• Open minded and flexible, constantly looking for new ways to make stuff happen and make the design better
• Always hungry to learn, always ready to share

IT/Technology Skills

• Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• Front end design & development: CSS, HTML, Javascript
• User experience: process flow, wire-framing

Duties and Responsibilities

• Embraces curiosity with a thorough understanding of Research, Strategy, Design, Environments and Digital
• Is able to recommends growth opportunities with his/ her clients
• Identify new business growth opportunities that align the clients’ brand-led business challenges
• Accountable for delivering all agreed-upon projects, on time, on budget, and on scope
• Works closely and reports into Client Services Director to ensure projects are resourced adequately, in alignment with scope and budget
• Ensures all correspondence, materials, presentations, and proposals seen by clients are of highest quality, relevant to the client’s business
• Partners effectively with all departments to ensure delivery of on-time, high-quality deliverables that address all relevant prospective client requirements
• Interacts with colleagues and clients alike in a positive, professional and motivating manner

Requirements

Holder of a Bachelors Degree, having five years of proven experience with a branding consultancy or an advertising agency. Candidates with prior client leadership experience will be preferred. Capabilities and competencies we are looking out for include


Excellent interpersonal skills

• Exceptionally organised with systems for tracking and managing time
• Ability to build strong relationships, internally and externally
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Curious & Responsible
• Ability to work in a high-pressure fast-moving environment
• Decisive, but comfortable with ambiguity and changing priorities
• Financially savvy

IT/Technology Skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft office as well as Keynote & Pages
• Well versed and knowledgeable with changing social media
• Comfortable with the digital world

Description

BrandLab is a bespoke design agency. Over the past 16 years we have pushed the boundaries of design; combing intuitiveness, insights and knowledge and applying them to all forms of design outputs that make a meaningful difference to our clients and their brands that allows them to realise their full potential.


Vision

We design brands and ensure that our work will make a positive difference and differentiation to the brands we serve. We work as a team and encourage collaboration. We are both creative and strategic and have abundant energy that fosters learning and growth.

As a Summer Intern - Design:

• Dedicate two months of your time to the agency
• You will work and be aligned to dedicated design and creative teams
• Learn to design concepts and materials for current clients
• Refine chosen design concepts under supervision of the design team
• Work with production and delivery team in final deliverables
• Collaborate and contribute in brainstorming/ concept development
• Understand how to package work as strong presentations

What we are looking for

• Experience in web design and graphic design
• Strong knowledge of typography and understanding of colour theory
• Strong time management skills and attention to detail
• Self-motivated A team player with strong interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in Adobe CS, understanding of HTML/ programming skills is a plus