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Paper Stone Scissors is hunting for a passionate fulltime Des...Job Description
Paper Stone Scissors is hunting for a passionate fulltime Design Director to join their highly skilled team and get a foot in the door at their rapidly growing agency. If you can offer around 4-5 years design agency experience, this role could fast-track your career.
You will be working alongside other designers in both Shanghai and Melbourne studio to produce top-tier, award winning design projects across the fashion, lifestyle and hospitality categories. What Paper Stone Scissors is really after is someone with a unique flair and sense of visual style, form and function, proficient with color and appreciation of clarity in design, does it sound like you?
Responsibilities
Assist the Creative Director with a creative leadership to the Shanghai design team
Act as a creative brand guardian for clients ensuring creative is on brand, consistent & adds value to their business objectives
Identify opportunities for additional work with our clients by thinking strategically about their business objectives & how these can potentially be communicated
Meet management planning objectives in relation to Shanghai & the quality of our creative product
Leading concept presentation to clients
Approving specifications from designers
Approving all creative work for allocated clients prior to dispatch
Maintaining level of creative excellence
Design of projects, production of visuals from initial briefing, continual amendments to layout/design
Ability to art direct some photographic and illustration work
Taking direction where required
Presenting progress of design prior to any presentation
Ability to stick within deadlines set even if some overtime is needed to do so
Specifying stocks and printing specifications in consultation with creative director
Briefing finished artist along with production manager
Overseeing finished artist's work prior to it going to out
Be involved in conducting analysis of work once complete to look at result obtained
Progress and process of job, over runs of time etc.
Requirements
Tertiary qualification in graphic design
At least 5-7 years commercial experience
Proficiency in both English and Mandarin, written and spoken
Excellent design skills and possesses a creative flair
Has demonstrated expertise in creating top-level commercial work
Friendly, passionate and professional
Self-motivated
Has energy and enthusiasm
Exhibits a can-do attitude with a willingness to learn and develop as a designer.
